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).