Sylvia Lewis

Sylvia Lewis

Born: April 22, 1931
in York, Pennsylvania, USA
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Sylvia Lewis (born April 22, 1931) is an American actress, dancer and choreographer.

Lewis began her film career in Singin' in the Rain and Red Garters as a dancer, then in Drums of Tahiti as an actress. Later she added choreography on her list of credits, which began while she was a regular featured character on the ABC television series Where's Raymond?, in which she played the dance partner, Sylvia, of series star Ray Bolger. In the second season, the program was renamed The Ray Bolger Show.

Lewis has choreographed many television shows since the 1950s, including Who's the Boss? and Married... with Children. She has made guest appearances on shows like The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., plus had a stage career on both coasts.

Movies for Sylvia Lewis...

The Conqueror (Hollywood Fallout)
Title: The Conqueror (Hollywood Fallout)
Character: Contributor
Released: October 17, 2023
Type: Movie
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that help bring the catastrophe to light.
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Title: Hook, Line and Sinker
Character: Karlotta Hammercher
Released: June 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.
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Title: Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: TV
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show on May 18, 1964. The show ran for five seasons and a total of 150 episodes. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment began releasing the series on DVD. The final season was released in November 2008. The series was created by Aaron Ruben, who also produced the show with Sheldon Leonard and Ronald Jacobs. Filmed and set in California, it stars Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, a naive but good-natured gas-station attendant from the town of Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in the United States Marine Corps. Frank Sutton plays Gomer's high-octane, short-fused Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, and Ronnie Schell plays Gomer's friend Gilbert "Duke" Slater. Allan Melvin played in the recurring role of Gunnery Sergeant Carter's rival, Sergeant Charley Hacker. The series never discussed nor addressed the then-current Vietnam War, instead focusing on the relationship between Gomer and Sergeant Carter. The show retained high ratings throughout its run.
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Danny Kaye Christmas Show
Title: Danny Kaye Christmas Show
Character: Trixie
Released: December 18, 1963
Type: Movie
In this Christmas-themed show, Danny welcomes as his guests Andy Williams, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. Danny and Dick are featured in a song-and-dance number, 'Puttin on the Ritz'. The featured comedy skit has Van Dyke portraying a tough as nails prosecutor locking horns with a seedy defense attorney during a murder trail were both lawyers play to television cameras in the courtroom.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Character: Phyllis
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Title: The Dick Van Dyke Show
Character: Anita
Released: October 3, 1961
Type: TV
The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley.
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The Ladies Man
Title: The Ladies Man
Character: Miss Cartilage
Released: June 21, 1961
Type: Movie
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Flossie
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Title: Johnny Staccato
Released: September 10, 1959
Type: TV
Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.
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Title: Peter Gunn
Released: September 22, 1958
Type: TV
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
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Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
Title: Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
Character: Nita Munay
Released: October 2, 1956
Type: Movie
A programmer with a Latin American beat.
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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Title: The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Character: Henrietta Hipslider
Released: January 11, 1956
Type: Movie
TV writer Greg Whitcomb did his military service heroically but now has settled into everyday life with a young wife, Katy. A letter from the war department arrives that Katy believes is calling Greg back to active duty from the Air Force reserve, but she hides it during a party celebrating their wedding anniversary.
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Bedlam in Paradise
Title: Bedlam in Paradise
Character: Helen Blazes
Released: April 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry' plans and makes it through the pearly gates.
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Drums of Tahiti
Title: Drums of Tahiti
Character: Mawai
Released: April 23, 1954
Type: Movie
A smuggler (Dennis O'Keefe) buys a bride (Patricia Medina) in San Francisco to help him run guns in 1877 Tahiti.
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Red Garters
Title: Red Garters
Character: Ensemble Dancer (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1954
Type: Movie
A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon. They can-can. but she won't-won't unless Jason (Jack Carson) asks her to get hitched. Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry are gun-totin' polecats who think they've got a feud to settle. And Frank Faylen and Buddy Ebsen are among the folks who hope the gunslingers get itchy fingered - so they can hold a town barbecue during the funeral!
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Title: Where's Raymond?
Released: October 8, 1953
Type: TV
Where's Raymond? is an American sitcom that aired on ABC, starring Ray Bolger. The series aired from October 1953 to April 22, 1955. The series' title was spurred by Bolger's Broadway stage hit Where's Charley?. In the 1954-1955 season, the series was renamed The Ray Bolger Show.
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Hans Christian Andersen
Title: Hans Christian Andersen
Character: Danseuse / Corps de Ballet (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
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Son of Paleface
Title: Son of Paleface
Character: Saloon Dancer (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
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She's Working Her Way Through College
Title: She's Working Her Way Through College
Character: Ensemble Dancer (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.
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Singin' in the Rain
Title: Singin' in the Rain
Character: Female Tango Dancer (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.