From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Sid Silvers January 16 1901 in Brooklyn New York August 20 1976 in Brooklyn was an American actor comedian lyricist and writer Silvers began his career in vaudeville in the early 1920s as a comedy partner of Phil Baker As part of their act Silvers would heckle Baker from the audience The BakerSilvers act was later used as the basis for the 1951 Martin and Lewis film The Stooge The duo continued to perform together up through 1928 In 1925 Silvers made his Broadway debut in the review Artists and Models He also appeared in the review A Night in Spain in 1927 and contributed lyrics to the musicals The Song Writer 1928 and Pleasure Bound 1929 He wrote the book for the 1931 musical You Said It He returned to the Broadway stage in 1932 to portray Louie Webb in the musical Take a Chance He later wrote the music and lyrics to the review New Faces of 1936 Silvers made his film debut in the 1929 feature The Show of Shows and then went on to play supporting roles in such films as Dancing Sweeties 1930 Bottoms Up 1934 Transatlantic MerryGoRound 1934 Born to Dance 1936 and Broadway Melody of 1936 notably also serving as a scriptwriter on the latter two films He often contributed special comedy material to some of the larger MGM productions including The Wizard of Oz in 1939 In the 1940s Silvers was mainly active as a performer on the stage and on radio He made one final film appearance in 1946 playing a featured comic role in Mr Ace In the 1960s he was a writer for The Mickey Rooney Show
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