He continued in stuffy, rigid or authoritarian roles for most of his career including memorable roles in The Tender Trap and Born Yesterday.
"(Love Is) The Tender Trap", a song written for the movie, popularized by Frank Sinatra
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He ultimately composed the scores to 35 films, including The Tender Trap (1955), Jailhouse Rock (1957), Kid Galahad (1962), and Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969).
In a Broadway career that stretched between the late 1930s and the early Nineties, he appeared in 17 shows altogether, including Room Service (his Broadway debut), The Tender Trap (he also appeared in the 1955 movie adaptation), the 1965 revival of Guys and Dolls, and Neil Simon's musical Little Me.