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Complete Filmography

Groucho & Cavett
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Discover the enduring friendship between television personality Dick Cavett and his mentor iconic comedian Groucho Marx. Their relationship is chronic...

The Wizard of Oz on Ice
1996
Songs, Lyricist
An ice-skating television adaptation of the 1939 musical film based on Lyman Frank Baum's 1900 fairy tale novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".

The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True
1995
Lyricist
This production consists an abbreviated script and highlights most musical numbers from the 1939 film.

The Great Man's Whiskers
1972
Songs
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.

Finian's Rainbow
1968
Screenplay, Musical, Lyricist
An Irish immigrant and his daughter arrive in Kentucky with a magical piece of gold that alters the course of several lives, including those of a stru...

I Could Go on Singing
1963
Lyricist
Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few ...

Gay Purr-ee
1962
Songs
Mewsette is a starry-eyed cat who grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris. Her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom, and ...

Bloomer Girl
1956
Lyricist
In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leadi...

California
1947
Lyricist
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Jo...

Can't Help Singing
1944
Lyricist
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has hi...

Hollywood Canteen
1944
Lyricist
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club...

Kismet
1944
Songs
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the c...

Hell-Bent for Election
1944
Lyricist
A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt is ...

Meet the People
1944
Producer
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some importan...

Cover Girl
1944
Lyricist
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Cabin in the Sky
1943
Lyricist
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for si...

Panama Hattie
1942
Lyricist
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.

Ship Ahoy
1942
Lyricist
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that ...

Rio Rita
1942
Lyricist
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Babes on Broadway
1941
Lyricist
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up th...

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...

At the Circus
1939
Lyricist
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take ov...

The Wizard of Oz
1939
Lyricist
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow ...

Gold Diggers of 1937
1936
Lyricist
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conn...

Stage Struck
1936
Lyricist
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

The Singing Kid
1936
Lyricist
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl ...

Broadway Gondolier
1935
Story
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

Queen High
1930
Songs
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he pro...

Applause
1929
Lyricist
This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated d...