1. Sidney Glazier was an American film producer best known for his work on the Mel Brooks film The Producers.
16 Facts About Sidney Glazier
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Sidney Glazier later sought psychoanalysis to help him deal with these childhood experiences.
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Sidney Glazier left the home at the age of 15, working as an usher at the Bijou burlesque theater that showed films between acts.
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Sidney Glazier recalled "I instantly realized that films would always be the loveliest and best escape from the troubled life I inherited".
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Sidney Glazier worked as a part-time pimp for a local madam.
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The newly married Sidney Glazier served in Australia and New Guinea as a second lieutenant, commanding 100 black troops as a support unit of the 380th Bombardment Group.
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Sidney Glazier found a day job under the GI Bill as an apprentice jeweller, but left the position seeking to become a bonds salesman for the new state of Israel.
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Sidney Glazier greatly admired Eleanor Roosevelt as a person and activist and the two later became friends.
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The film, The Eleanor Roosevelt Story, which Sidney Glazier produced, was groundbreaking in style and won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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Sidney Glazier reported that he had never laughed so hard in his life.
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Zero Mostel was often angry and demanding, and Sidney Glazier had to mediate between the director, Mostel and others.
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Sidney Glazier was right out of a black-and-white Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie.
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Sidney Glazier formed a distribution company, Universal Marion Corporation Pictures, and acted as executive producer on films, such as Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run, Waris Hussein's Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, Mel Brooks's Twelve Chairs, and Glen and Randa.
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Sidney Glazier managed the US distribution of Luis Bunuel's Milky Way and the Dario Argento film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
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Brooks asked Sidney Glazier to go to Hollywood to work on further films, but with his marriage breaking up he demurred, preferring to remain in New York to be close to his daughter.
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Sidney Glazier died at the age of 86 of natural causes at a nursing home in Bennington, Vermont.