Sidney D. Mitchell
Screenwriter, Composer
1888 – 1942
Who was Sidney D. Mitchell?
Sidney D. Mitchell was a Hollywood film industry lyricist and composer. He is best known for his collaborations with Lew Pollack on movie scores at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s. Together with Louis Alter, Mitchell was nominated for an Oscar in 1937 for the song "A Melody from the Sky" which was in the 1936 motion picture The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. He contributed a large number of songs to other films, and his work continues to be featured to the present day. He also served as a screenwriter for three movies and a director for the film Umpa in 1933.
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- Born
- Jun 15, 1888
Baltimore - Also known as
- Mitchell and Gottler Conrad
- Mitchell, Sidney
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 25, 1942
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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