About
Known for At Last and You'll Never Know for which he won his first and last Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Before Fame
He was a vaudeville actor and singer.
Trivia
His songs were featured in over 100 films and sung by such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Etta James, and Nat King Cole.
Family Life
He married second wife Elizabeth Cook in 1939, but they divorced in 1948.
Associated With
He frequently collaborated with English pianist Harry Revel during the 1930s.
