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S. Sylvan Simon (March 9, 1910 – May 17, 1951) was an American stage/film director and producer. He directed numerous Hollywood films in the late 1930s to 1940s, and was the producer of Born Yesterday (1950).
1. Dulcy (1940) Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance. 6. Rate. A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Director S. Sylvan Simon worked as a drama coach, radio executive and stage director before joining Warner Brothers in 1935. He then moved to MGM as director and assistant director in 1937. His sudden death at the age of 41 shocked all who knew him and he was mourned throughout the film industry.
S. Sylvan Simon is known as an Director and Producer. Some of his work includes Lust for Gold, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood, Son of Lassie, Grand Central Murder, I Love Trouble, Rio Rita, Whistling in the Dark, and These Glamour Girls.
S. Sylvan Simon. Motion Picture Director and Producer. He was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1950 for Born Yesterday. He also directed-produced Rio Rita (1942), Son Of Lassie (1945), Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945) and The Fuller Brush Man (1948).
S. SYLVAN SIMON, FILM EXECUTIVE, 41; Columbia Producer-Director Is Dead--'Born Yesterday' Among His Movie Credits
The Fuller Brush Man: Directed by S. Sylvan Simon. With Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Hillary Brooke. Striving to be a whiz-bang salesman and screwing up at every turn, Red Skelton turns in a genius comic performance inevitably getting into big trouble, impossible situations and a wild chase involving dastardly crooks.
