Songwriter ("Swinging on a Star" [Academy Award, 1944], "What's New?", "Oh, You Crazy Moon"), producer, director and author, educated at the University of Wisconsin and Crane College. He joined the staff of music publishing companies in New York and Chicago, then went to Hollywood under contract to Paramount Studios...See full bio »
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Episode dated 20 January 1960
(1960)
(lyrics: "My Heart Is a Hobo" - uncredited, "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" - uncredited, "You Don't Have to Know the Language" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.7
(1957)
(lyrics: "Swinging on a Star" - uncredited)
1957The Edsel Show
(TV special)
(lyrics: " We're Off on the Road to Morocco" - uncredited, "Swinging on a Star" - uncredited, "Sunday, Monday or Always" - uncredited)
1947Welcome Stranger
(lyrics: "SMILE RIGHT BACK AT THE SUN", "COUNTRY STYLE", "MY HEART IS A HOBO", "AS LONG AS I'M DREAMING", "SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF MAINE")
1946Road to Utopia
(lyrics: "Put It There, Pal" 1946, "It's Anybody's Spring" 1946, "Sunday, Monday or Always" 1943, "Good Time Charlie" 1946, "Personality" 1946, "Welcome to My Dream" 1946, "Would You?" 1946)
1946Cross My Heart
(lyrics: "THAT LITTLE DREAM GOT NOWHERE", "HOW DO YOU DO IT", "LOVE IS THE DARNDEST THING", "It Hasn't Been Chilly in Chile", "Does Baby Feel Alright?")
1946London Town
(lyrics: "You Can't Keep a Good Dreamer Down", "The 'Ampstead Way", "Any Way the Wind Blows", "So Would I", "My Heart Goes Crazy", "If Spring were only here to stay")
1944Pay Day
(short)
(lyrics: "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore" - uncredited)
1944Take It Big
(writer: "Sunday, Monday and Always")
1944And the Angels Sing
(writer: "IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU", "HIS ROCKING HORSE RAN AWAY", "BLUEBIRDS IN MY BELFRY", "FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS", "KNOCKING ON YOUR OWN FRONT DOOR", "MY HEART'S WRAPPED UP IN GINGHAM", "WHEN STANISLAUS GOT MARRIED", "HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?")
1943Dixie
(lyrics: "SUNDAY, MONDAY OR ALWAYS", "SHE'S FROM MISSOURI", "MISS JEMIMA WALKS BY", "IF YOU PLEASE", "KINDA PECULIAR BROWN", "A HORSE THAT KNOWS HIS WAY BACK HOME")
1942Road to Morocco
(lyrics: " We're Off on the Road to Morocco" 1942, "Ain't Got a Dime to My Name Ho Hum" 1942, "Constantly" 1942, "Moonlight Becomes You" 1942, "Aladdin's Daughter" 1942)
1942My Favorite Spy
(lyrics: "Just Plain Lonesome" 1942, "Got the Moon in My Pocket" 1942)
1941Playmates
(lyrics: "How Long Did I Dream" 1941, "Thank Your Lucky Stars and Stripes" 1941, "Romeo Smith and Juliet Jones" 1941, "Humpty Dumpty Heart" 1941, "Que Chica" 1941)
1941Road to Zanzibar
(lyrics: "ROAD TO ZANZIBAR", "YOU LUCKY PEOPLE, YOU", "AFRICAN ETUDE", "YOU'RE DANGEROUS", "IT'S ALWAYS YOU")
1940Love Thy Neighbor
(lyrics: "Isn't That Just Like Love", "Do You Know Why", "Dearest, Dearest")
1940Rhythm on the River
(lyrics: "Ain't It a Shame About Mame" - uncredited, "Only Forever" - uncredited, "Rhythm on the River" - uncredited, "When the Moon Comes Over Madison Square Garden" - uncredited, "What Would Shakespeare Have Said?" - uncredited, "That's for Me" - uncredited)
1940If I Had My Way
(lyrics: "I Haven't Time To Be A Millionaire", "Meet The Sun Halfway", "The Pessimistic Character With The Crab Apple Face", "Meet The Sun Halfway" reprise / "April Played the Fiddle" - uncredited)
1940Road to Singapore
(lyrics: "Too Romantic", "Sweet Potato Piper", "Kaigoon", "The Moon and the Willow Tree", "Captain Custard")
1939The Star Maker
(lyrics: "A Man and His Dreams", "Go Fly a Kite", "An Apple for the Teacher", "Still the Bluebird Sings")
1939East Side of Heaven
(writer: "East Side of Heaven", "Sing a Song of Sunbeams")
1938Sing, You Sinners
(lyrics: "DON'T LET THAT MOON GET AWAY", "I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS", "LAUGH AND CALL IT LOVE" / as John Burke)
1937Double or Nothing
(lyrics: "The Moon Got in My Eyes" - uncredited, "It's the Natural Thing to Do" - uncredited, "Double or Nothing" - uncredited, "All You Want to Do Is Dance" - uncredited)
1936Pennies from Heaven
(lyrics: "Pennies From Heaven" 1936, "Skeleton in the Closet" 1936, "So Do I" 1936, "One Two Button Your Shoe" 1936, "Let's Call a Heart a Heart" 1936)
1936Go West Young Man
(lyrics: "ON A TYPICAL TROPICAL NIGHT", "I WAS SAYING TO THE MOON", "GO WEST, YOUNG MAN", "MOMENT")
Nellie Bly (1946). Musical. Music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Material by Joseph Quillan. Lyrics by Johnny Burke. Musical Director: Charles Drury. Choreography by Edward Caton and Lee Sherman. Directed by Edgar MacGregor. Adelphi Theatre: 21 Jan 1946- 2 Feb 1946 (16 performances). Cast: Walter Armin (as "Pulitzer"...
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