George Sidney
George Sidney
George Sidneywas an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth4 October 1916
CountryUnited States of America
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Musicals became too expensive. When we were working at MGM, there was a whole company of talent - stars, directors, choreographers, song writers, conductors, arrangers. All worked under contract at regular salaries. To gather people like that today would be enormously costly.
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I always say, 'I owe my career to golf. The test director went out to play golf. At 1 o'clock I walked out on the stage and there are these three girls, they're made up ready to be tested and I walked in and said, 'I'm the director.' And some guy in the back yelled, 'Well, go ahead and direct Charlie.' So that was it. That was the moment of truth.
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I made all these films and I had all kinds of great experiences. I worked with the great filmmakers and it was a very exciting life.
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I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
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When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.
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Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.