- Composer, songwriter ("There Are Such Things", "My Mother's Eyes"), pianist and author, educated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, giving up dentistry to join a NY music publisher in 1920. He accompanied Nora Bayes, and came to Hollywood in 1929 to write songs for sound films. In 1955 he managed a show sponsored by ASCAP (which he had joined in 1929) and the USO, touring Germany for the Armed Forces. He wrote the Broadway stage score for "Lady Do". His chief musical collaborators were L. Wolfe Gilbert, Stanley Adams, Cliff Friend, Sam Lewis, and Mabel Wayne. His other popular-song compositions include: "June Night"; "Gee, But You're Swell"; "I Miss My Swiss"; "Don't Wait 'Til the Night Before Christmas"; "Lucky Lindy"; "It's the Girl"; "Am I To Blame?'; "Mama Loves Papa"; "Blue Hoosier Blues"; "Garden in Granada"; "When the One You Love, Loves You"; "Don't Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream"; "The Night When Love Was Born"; "Chapel of the Roses"; "Harriet"; and "I'm Sitting Pretty".
- IMDb mini biography by: Hup234!
- He was a Second Lieutenant in the US Army Air Force in World War I.
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