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Seymour Felix is a Director and Choreographer born on 23 october 1892

Seymour Felix

Seymour Felix
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Birth 23 october 1892
Death 16 march 1961 (at 68 years)

Seymour Felix est un chorégraphe américain né le 23 octobre 1892 à New York (État de New York) et mort le 16 mars 1961 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Biography

Seymour Felix commence sa carrière comme danseur dans des spectacles de variétés dès l'âge de 15 ans. Il devient par la suite chorégraphe pour plusieurs comédies musicales de Broadway. Au cours des années 1930, il se consacre de plus en plus à la chorégraphie de numéros musicaux dans des films.

Best films

Mother Wore Tights (1947)
(Choreographer)
Cover Girl (1944)
(Choreographer)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Seymour Felix (10 films)

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Director

Girls Demand Excitement, 1h9
Directed by Seymour Felix
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Marion Byron, Helen Jerome Eddy, Winter Hall
Rating60% 3.0002453.0002453.0002453.0002453.000245
Peter Brooks est à la tête d'un groupe d'étudiants qui lutte contre la présence d'étudiantes à l'université. Il va se trouver opposé à Joan Madison à ce sujet, mais ils finiront par tomber amoureux...

Team

Dancing in the Dark, 1h32
Directed by Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about television, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors William Powell, Mark Stevens, Betsy Drake, Adolphe Menjou, Randy Stuart, Lloyd Corrigan
Roles Choreographer
Rating54% 2.7164252.7164252.7164252.7164252.716425
This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, an unlikeable actor who was once a major film star, but who has not worked in ten years. Slade tries to convince studio chief Melville Crossman (Adolphe Menjou) to give the female lead in the film version of a Broadway musical to an unknown, rather than the actress he was sent to New York to sign.
Mother Wore Tights, 1h47
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Vanessa Brown, Robert Arthur, Sara Allgood
Roles Choreographer
Rating63% 3.1942053.1942053.1942053.1942053.194205
In turn-of-the-century Oakland, California, the teenaged Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) is expected to follow high school by attending a San Francisco business college. Instead, she takes a job performing with a traveling vaudeville troupe, where she meets and falls in love with singer-dancer Frank Burt (Dan Dailey).
Do You Love Me, 1h31
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Gaines, Lex Barker, Betty Grable
Roles Choreographer
Rating62% 3.143193.143193.143193.143193.14319
Jimmy Hale (Dick Haymes), a successful singer chases Katharine "Kitten" Hilliard (Maureen O'Hara), a prim, bespectacled music-school dean who, after traveling to the big city, transforms herself into a desirable, sophisticated lady. Jimmy isn't the only one eager to win Katharine's affections: It turns out smooth-as-silk trumpeter and bandleader Barry Clayton (Harry James) has designs on Katharine as well,
Cover Girl
Cover Girl (1944)
, 1h47
Directed by Budd Boetticher, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Otto Kruger, Eve Arden, Lee Bowman
Roles Choreographer
Rating66% 3.3470953.3470953.3470953.3470953.347095
Rusty (Rita Hayworth), a chorus girl working at a nightclub run by her boyfriend Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), is given a chance for stardom by the wealthy magazine editor John Coudair (Otto Kruger), who years earlier had been in love with her grandmother, Maribelle Hicks. Offered an opportunity to be a highly paid cover girl, Rusty would faithfully remain with her nightclub act if only Danny would ask her. He doesn't want to stand in her way, so he picks an argument to send her packing. Rusty becomes a star on Broadway after appearing in a musical produced by Coudair's wealthy friend, Noel Wheaton (Lee Bowman), and decides to get married to Wheaton. At the last second she leaves the wedding and reunites with Danny.
Joy of Living, 1h31
Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alice Brady, Guy Kibbee, Eric Blore, Jean Dixon
Roles Choreographer
Rating62% 3.1473353.1473353.1473353.1473353.147335
Margaret 'Maggie' Garret is the star of a new musical show, 'Glamour", having come up the hard way, following the family tradition of stage performance. She now earns a large salary but is devastated to learn that she is deeply in debt. She has worked extremely hard to make the show a success, but spends huge sums on a palatial home, and supporting her parents Dan and Minerva, her sister Salina (also her understudy) and Salina's work-shy husband, Bert Pine.
On the Avenue, 1h25
Directed by Roy Del Ruth, William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, Al Ritz, George Barbier, Jimmy Ritz
Roles Choreographer
Rating66% 3.3442453.3442453.3442453.3442453.344245
Gary Blake (Dick Powell) stars in a new show, On the Avenue, with Mona Merrick (Alice Faye). The show contains a satire on The Richest Girl in the World, Mimi Carraway (Madeleine Carroll). Mimi and her father (George Barbier) are in the audience on opening night and they feel insulted. She goes backstage and tries to get Gary to take the skit out of the show. He refuses and calls her a "bad sport".
After the Thin Man, 1h53
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Penny Singleton, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia
Roles Choreographer
Rating75% 3.7971353.7971353.7971353.7971353.797135
Nick and Nora Charles return from vacation to their home in San Francisco on New Year's Eve, where Nora's stuffy family expect the couple to join them for a formal dinner. Nick is despised by Nora's Aunt Katherine, the family matriarch, as his immigrant heritage and experience as a "flat foot" are considered below Nora. The true reason for their invitation is that Nora's cousin Selma's ne'er-do-well husband Robert has been missing. Nick is coerced into a little quiet detective work for the family.
Hollywood Party, 1h8
Directed by Richard Boleslawski, Charles Reisner, George Stevens, Allan Dwan, Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding, Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Polly Moran, Charles Butterworth, Lucille Ball
Roles Choreographer
Rating59% 2.9998652.9998652.9998652.9998652.999865
Jungle movie star "Schnarzan" (Durante), a character in parody of Tarzan, is advised by his manager he needs new lions for his pictures, as his old ones are "worn out". At a wild Hollywood party with many varied guests, including a "lion provider", hilarity ensues. After it all gets out of hand, Schnarzan awakens to find he is just plain old Durante, who had a strange dream.