Cy enfield biography examples

Cyril Raker Endfield was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on 10 November 1914. He attended Yale University, where he became briefly involved with the Young Communist League.

He also developed an interest in magic and card tricks, forming the basis for a later reputation as one of the world's leading magicians.

After working with progressive theatre groups in New York, touring the Catskills mountain resorts with his own satirical revue troupe, and running an amateur theatre in Montreal, Endfield moved to Los Angeles, where his card skills so impressed Orson Welles that he was taken on as an apprentice in Welles' production company, Mercury.

He made his own debut film with Inflation (1942), a witty propaganda short for MGM warning the wartime public against the dangers of excessive materialism. It was condemned as anti-capitalist by the US Chamber of Commerce and shelved, not being publicly shown until nearly fifty years later.

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