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Cy Feuer , actually Seymour Arnold Feuerman , (born January 15, 1911 in Brooklyn , New York City , New York , † May 17, 2006 in New York City, New York) was an American theater owner , music director , film and theater producer .

Life

Cy Feuer worked as a trumpeter in clubs in Brooklyn from the age of fifteen and initially dropped out of high school in favor of this profession . After a few engagements, including at Radio City Music Hall , he toured the United States in 1938 with the Leon Belasco Orchestra. After a tour stop in Burbank , he separated from Belasco and got a job with Republic Pictures . There he worked on more than 100 feature films , mainly B-movies , as music director, arranger and composer. He served in the US military for three years during World War II . In 1947 he left Republic Pictures and moved back to New York, where he teamed up with Ernest H. Martin . Together they not only produced successfully on Broadway from the late 1940s to the late 1970s , but also ran the Lunt-Fontanne Theater , where Feuer occasionally worked as a theater director. He received three Tony Awards and the 2003 Tony for Lifetime Achievement . Feuer adapted some of his successful theater productions for Hollywood; first in 1952 the comedy film Charley's Aunt . His greatest success as a film producer was the musical film Cabaret . It received eight Academy Awards , fire itself received a nomination for Best Picture as a producer , but was subject to Albert S. Ruddy . In 1985, Feuer produced the drama A Chorus Line . The film musical received three Academy Award nominations, but was not particularly successful commercially.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1938: Storm Over Bengal
  • 1938: Friends in the Saddle (Pals of the Saddle)
  • 1939: Daredevils of the Red Circle
  • 1939: A Cowboy in New York (Wall Street Cowboy)
  • 1939: Pony Express (Frontier Pony Express)
  • 1939: The Zero Hour
  • 1939: Water for Arizona (New Frontier)
  • 1939: Zorro's Vengeance (Zorro's Fighting Legion)
  • 1939: She Married a Cop
  • 1940: Revenge of the Copper Serpent (Mysterious Doctor Satan)
  • 1940: Women in War
  • 1940: Behind the News
  • 1941: Jungle Girl
  • 1941: Sheriff of Tombstone (Sheriff of Tombstone)
  • 1941: Mercy Island
  • 1941: Sis Hopkins
  • 1941: The Devil Pays Off
  • 1942: Ice-Capades
  • 1942: The Daredevil of Boston (In Old California)
  • 1946: Cards, Bullets, Bandits (Plainsman and the Lady)
  • 1947: The Black Rider (Angel and the Badman)
  • 1947: Hyenas of the Prairie (Wyoming)

production

  • 1952: Charley's aunt (Where's Charley?)
  • 1972: Cabaret
  • 1974: The Sparrow of Paris - Edith Piaf (Piaf)
  • 1985: A Chorus Line

Broadway (selection)

Awards

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Fire, cy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feuerman, Seymour Arnold (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music director, composer, film and theater producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2006
Place of death New York City , New York , United States