Seymour Felix(1892-1961)

Seymour Felix began his showbiz career as a professional dancer in vaudeville at the age of 15. In the 1920s he became a dance director in New York, where he created and staged dance numbers for stage shows like Whoopee, Roaslie, and Hit the Deck. In 1929 he worked briefly in Hollywood (Sunny Side Up (1929) ), and returned there permanently in 1933. His best remembered numbers are in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and the Oscar-winning "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" number from The Great Ziegfeld (1936).