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Cy Feuer (January 15, 1911 – May 17, 2006) was an American theatre producer, director, composer, and musician. Born Seymour Arnold Feuerman in Brooklyn, New York,he studied trumpet privately with Max Schlossberg(personal communication...2006), he became a professional trumpeter at the age of fifteen, working at clubs on weekends to help support his family while attending New Utrecht High School. It was there he first met Abe Burrows, who in later years he would hire to write the book for Guys and Dolls. Having no interest in mathematics, science, or sports, he dropped out of school and... MORE

Cy Feuer (January 15, 1911 – May 17, 2006) was an American theatre producer, director, composer, and musician. Born Seymour Arnold Feuerman in Brooklyn, New York,he studied trumpet privately with Max Schlossberg(personal communication...2006), he became a professional trumpeter at the age of fifteen, working at clubs on weekends to help support his family while attending New Utrecht High School. It was there he first met Abe Burrows, who in later years he would hire to write the book for Guys and Dolls. Having no interest in mathematics, science, or sports, he dropped out of school and found work as a trumpeter on a political campaign truck. He later studied at the Juilliard School before joining the orchestras at the Roxy Theater and later Radio City Music Hall. In 1938, he toured the country with Leon Belasco and His Society Orchestra, eventually ending up in Burbank, California. Following a ten-week stint there, the orchestra departed for Minneapolis, but he opted to remain in California. Feuer found employment at Republic Pictures, serving as musical director, arranger, and/or composer of more than 125 mostly B-movies, many of them serials and westerns, for the next decade, LESS