 He worked in over 150 films, mainly as a choreographer, including "The Desert Song" (1929), "Tea for Two" (1950), and "The Jazz Singer" (1952), a remake of the first sound movie.In the 1940s, he worked on "Road to Singapore" (1940) at Paramount.His first major assignment at Warner Brothers was the 1942 George M. Cohan biographical movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy", starring James Cagney in the title role.