Leonard Sues(1921-1971)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Composer, conductor, trumpeter and author Leonard Sues began conducting
at age five. By age six-1/2 he began touring Publix vaudeville venues
as a conductor and trumpeter. He was an actor in Broadway plays and
films, and conducted Eddie Cantor radio
programs over a three-year period and programs for
Ole Olsen and
Chic Johnson, and for
Milton Berle (with whom he worked for
twenty years as a musical director and performer) and
Mickey Rooney. He joined ASCAP in
1963 and wrote the Broadway stage score for "Brooklyn Bridge". His
chief musical collaborator was
Mickey Rooney and his popular-song
compositions include "Curiosity Killed the Cat" and "Boip! Boip!".
