About
Wrote The Trolley Song, The Boy Next Door, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, which was sung by Judy Garland in Meet Me In St. Louis from 1944.
Before Fame
He studied music at Birmingham-Southern College and was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
Trivia
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983.
Family Life
His father was an architect.
Associated With
He collaborated on most of his songs with Ralph Blane.