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