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Sylvia Syms (singer)

American singer (1917–1992)

This article is about the American singer. For the English actress with the same name, see Sylvia Syms.

Sylvia Syms
Sylvia Syms, c. 1946
Birth name	Sylvia Blagman
Born	(1917-12-02)December 2, 1917 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	May 10, 1992(1992-05-10) (aged 74) New York City
Genres	Jazz
Occupation	Singer

Musical artist

Sylvia Syms (December 2, 1917 – May 10, 1992) was an American jazz singer.

Biography

Syms was born Sylvia Blagman in Brooklyn, New York. As a child, she had polio. As a teenager, she went to jazz nightclubs on New York's 52nd Street and received informal training from Billie Holiday. She made her debut in 1941 at Kelly's Stable.^[1]

In 1948, performing at the Cinderella Club in Greenwich Village, she was seen by Mae West, who gave her a part in a show she was doing.^[1] Among others who observed her in nightclubs was Frank Sinatra who considered her the "world's greatest saloon singer." Sinatra conducted her 1982 album, Syms by Sinatra.

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Sylvia Syms

English actress (1934–2023)

This article is about the English actress. For the American singer, see Sylvia Syms (singer).

Sylvia May Laura Syms^[2] (6 January 1934 – 27 January 2023) was an English stage and screen actress. Her best-known film roles include My Teenage Daughter (1956), Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award, Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961) and The Tamarind Seed (1974).

Known as the "Grand Dame of British Cinema", Syms was a major player in films from the mid-1950s until mid-1960s, usually in stiff-upper-lip English pictures, as opposed to kitchen sink realism dramas, before becoming more of a supporting actress in both film and television roles. On television, she was known for her recurring role as dressmaker Olive Woodhouse on the BBCsoap operaEastEnders. She was also a notable theatre player.^[3]

Syms portrayed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in the 2006 biopic The Queen.

Early life and education

Syms was born in Woolw

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Not many pretty young stars develop into satisfying character actors, but Sylvia Syms, in the later '50s the freshest new face in British films, has doggedly held on to her career in all the acting media. Watch a perfectly unexceptional Ruth Rendell mystery, The Master of the Moor (ITV, 1994), come alive for a few minutes when Syms suddenly appears as a long-missing mother and you see what character playing means: in her maturity, she can suggest all the appropriate resonances that give the role a sense of a past.

She credits Herbert Wilcox with launching and nurturing her film career; he co-starred her with wife Anna Neagle in My Teenage Daughter (1956), a genteel version of the rebellious youth syndrome so popular then. She signed a contract with Associated British, which she later regretted, but it netted her some good roles, including two for J. Lee Thompson: Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), playing the 'other woman' with feeling and dignity, and Ice Cold in Alex (1958), as the army nurse engaged on a perilous journey.

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