Cast: Sylvia Beach

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Sylvia Beach. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Paris Was a Woman

1996 · Documentary · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Greta Schiller

Cast Juliet Stevenson · Gisele Freund · Sylvia Beach · Adrienne Monnier

Plot Female (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way...

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Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man

2003 · Documentary · 52 min. · France

Direction Gonzague Pichelin · Benjamin Sutherland

Cast George Whitman · Sylvia Whitman · James Baldwin · Sylvia Beach

Plot In 1951, George Whitman opened a bookshop-commune in Paris. George, 92, still runs his "den of anarchists disguised as a bookstore," offering free, dirty beds to poor literati, cutting his...

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