Harmon was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award for Best Story for the movie The Talk of the Town.
Harmon produced Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Men In White.
[1] Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1907,[2] Harmon produced Broadway plays throughout the 1930s (1931-1937).
In 1959, he co-founded the Theatre Group at the University of California at Los Angeles with John Houseman and Robert Ryan.
[8] The Desert Theatre League's Sidney Harmon Award honored members "in recognition of the advancement of theatrical excellence both on and off the stage".