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Sidney Arnold Franklin (March 21, 1893 – May 18, 1972) was an American film director and producer. Franklin, like William C. deMille, specialized in adapting literary works or Broadway stage plays.
Sidney Franklin (born Sidney Frumkin; 11 July 1903 – 26 April 1976) was the first American to become a successful matador, the most senior level of bullfighter.
Jun 3, 2019 · NEW YORK — In the bullfighting world of the 1920s and ’30s, Sidney Franklin was defined not only by his Americanness, elegance or tough-guy personality but also by his Jewishness.
Jun 25, 2019 · The Gay Jewish Matador From Brooklyn. Sidney Franklin was “hiding in plain sight” as a closeted bullfighter in a macho sport. He became a legend in Spain and loved dressing the part.
May 14, 2024 · Sidney Franklin was an American film director and producer best known for The Good Earth (1937), his sweeping adaptation of the best-selling novel by Pearl S. Buck. Franklin got his start in films in 1912 as a writer.
Corey Kilgannon looks at the life of Sidney Franklin, the first Jewish American to reach matador status in Spain, who hid his sexuality in plain sight
Feb 17, 2010 · Yet Sidney Franklin, born Sidney Frumpkin in Park Slope in 1903 to a family of Russian-born Orthodox Jews, necessarily took his corrida activities with deadly seriousness, since he survived a ...
