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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

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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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