| Name Sidney Mitchell Role Film composer | Children James Mitchell | |
| Died February 25, 1942, Los Angeles, California, United States Grandchildren Stephanie Mitchell, James Mitchell-Clyde Nominations Academy Award for Best Original Song Music director Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Thin Ice, Words and Music, Life Begins in College Similar People Louis Alter, Lew Pollack, Maceo Pinkard, Sam H Stept, Mack Gordon | ||
Bailey's Lucky Seven - Stuttering (1922)
Sidney D. Mitchell (June 15, 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland – February 25, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) 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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