From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia George Sidney October 4 1916 May 5 2002 was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at MetroGoldwynMayer Sidney was assigned to direct the Our Gang comedies in 1938 After a year of working on these shorts he moved on to the Crime Does Not Pay series and popular Pete Smith specialties He graduated to directing features in 1941 He then worked his way into directing large scale musicals such as The Harvey Girls 1946 The Three Musketeers 1948 Annie Get Your Gun 1950 and Kiss Me Kate 1953 Sidney left MGM to make The Eddy Duchin Story 1956 at Columbia Pictures where he made his base for the next decade for such films as Jeanne Eagels 1957 Pal Joey 1957 Who Was That Lady 1960 Pepe 1960 and Bye Bye Birdie 1963 He would return to MGM to film A Ticklish Affair 1963 and Elvis Presleys Viva Las Vegas 1964 His last film was Half a Sixpence 1967 Sidney was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award four times starting with the lush Technicolor remake of Show Boat In 1958 he was presented with a Golden Globe Award for Best World Entertainment through Musical Films For his work in the art of cinema George Sidney was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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