Songwriter ("I'll Be Home For Christmas", "Under Paris Skies", "A Dreamer's Holiday", "Autumn Nocturne"), author and lawyer, educated at St. Lawrence University (BS) and Albany Law School (LL.B.). He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1934. Besides writing for films, he wrote the Broadway stage score for "Seventeen"...See full bio »
1946Down Missouri Way
(writer: "Old Missouri Hayride", "There's a Rose That Grows in the Ozarks", "Big Town Gal", "Monkey Business", "Never Knew That I Could Sing", "I'm So In Love With You", "Just Can't Get That Guy", "If Something Don't Happen Soon")
1945Earl Carroll Vanities
(lyrics: "Endlessly", "I've Been Good for So Long", "Rockabye Boogie", "The Last Man in Town", "You Beautiful Thing, You")
1944Song of the Open Road
(lyrics: "Rollin' Down the Road" 1944 - uncredited, " I'm Havin' Fun in the Sun" 1944 - uncredited, "Too Much in Love" 1944 - uncredited, "Here It Is Monday" 1944 - uncredited)
1944Shine on Harvest Moon
(lyrics: "We're Doing Our Best" 1944, "Don't Let Rainy Days Get You" 1944, "Who's Your Honey Lamb?" 1944 - uncredited, "So Dumb But So Beautiful" 1944, "Thank You for the Dance" 1944, "I Go for You" 1944)
1944Crime by Night
(lyrics: "Two Tables Apart" 1944 - uncredited)
1944Meet Miss Bobby Socks
(lyrics: "I'm Not Afraid of Love", "Come Rain, Come Shine")
1944Bowery to Broadway
(music: "Montevideo", "Coney Island Waltz" / lyrics: "Montevideo", "Coney Island Waltz")
1944In Society
(writer: "What a Change in the Weather")
1944Three Little Sisters
(lyrics: "Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart", "Khaki Wacky Sue", "Little Old Fashioned Looking Glass", "Don't Forget the Girls Back Home")
1944Louisiana Hayride
(writer: "Rainbow Road", "You Gotta Go Where the Train Goes")
1944Hare Ribbin'
(short)
(lyrics: "It Can't Be Wrong" - uncredited)
1944Angel Puss
(short)
(lyrics: "Angel in Disguise" - uncredited)
1944Swooner Crooner
(short)
(lyrics: "It Can't Be Wrong" - uncredited, "I'll Pray for You" - uncredited, "Always in My Heart" - uncredited)
1944My Best Gal
(lyrics: "I've Got the Flyingist Feeling", "Where There's Love", "The Upsy-Downsy")
1944Casanova in Burlesque
(lyrics: "Casanova Joe", "Five-A-Day Fatima", "Willie the Shake", "Mess Me Up", "Taming of the Shrew Routine")
1944Tom Turk and Daffy
(short)
(lyrics: "Angel in Disguise" - uncredited)
1943Shantytown
(lyrics: "On the Corner of Sunshine and Main" - uncredited)
1943Salute for Three
(writer: "My Wife's a WAAC", "Left-Right", "Wha' D'ya Do When It Rains?", "I'll Do It For You" "Danger Kissing a Stranger", "Don't Worry")
(1951). Stage Play: Seventeen. Musical comedy. Music by Walter Kent. Lyrics by Kim Gannon. Material by Sally Benson. Material direction by Richard Whorf. Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington. Music arranged by Ted Royal. Musical Director: Vincent Travers. Choral arrangements by Crane Calder. Assistant...
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