 In the 1950s he entered a second marriage and, after the birth of the couple's son, Stefan, Gilbert moved with his new family to Locarno in Switzerland's Tessin region.Then in the 1960s he embarked on a successful second career translating American Broadway musicals.A former close boyhood friend, Frederick (Fritz) Loewe introduced Gilbert to his collaborator, Alan Jay Lerner, and that meeting resulted in a string of major hits – the German translations of "Annie Get Your Gun", "Hello Dolly", "Gigi", "My Fair Lady" and "Man of La Mancha".