This tiny (4' 11"), appealing, coquettish-looking Hollywood actress had only a few active years in early talkies before her career took a bad hit. A few years after that she joined other shattered 1930s hopefuls (Peg Entwistle, Gwili Andre, Peggy Shannon) as tragic symbols of unrequited stardom. Sidney Fox was born Sidney Liefer in New York City on...
My greatest cross is that my face and body don't match my mind and soul. People expect me to be an ingénue, a baby doll, and they're terribly disappointed when they find I'm not. At parties, I've seen men ask to be introduced to me, and I knew they thought I was attractive, but after talking to me a few minutes they'd turn away in dismay. Men, in Hollywood especially, don't like intelligent women.
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Fact
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In a full-length article on Sidney in Classic Images, February 2009, by Greg Mank, Hollywood gossip had it that Sidney was having an affair with Carl Laemmle Jr., the Universal general manager who discovered her. Some implied that she also was having an affair with his father, mogul Carl Laemmle, at the same time. This sullied her reputation in Hollywood and her career was heavily damaged by it.
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In the spring of 1932, she survived serious injuries after her car plummeted 40 feet down an embankment just outside her Hollywood home. She escaped with only cuts and bruises.
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Commited suicide at 34. The official cause of death was "a possible overdose of sleeping pills".
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Stood at just four feet eleven inches tall.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Down to Their Last Yacht
1934
Linda Colt-Stratton
School for Girls
1934
Annette Edlridge
Midnight
1934
Stella Weldon
Die Abenteuer des Königs Pausole
1933
Diana
The Merry Monarch
1933
Queen of the Day
Don Quixote
1933
Maria, the niece
Merry-Go-Round
1932
Peggy Martin
Once in a Lifetime
1932
Susan Walker
The Mouthpiece
1932
Celia Farraday
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
1932
Sidney Fox
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932
Mlle. Camille L'Espanaye
Strictly Dishonorable
1931
Isabelle
Nice Women
1931
Beth Girard
Six Cylinder Love
1931
Marilyn Sterling
The Bad Sister
1931
Marianne Madison
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Universal Horror
1998
TV Movie documentary
Known for movies
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) as Mlle. Camille L'Espanaye
$1.4 Million
