Babes in Arms

…singer in the Broadway musical Babes in Arms (1937). He then appeared in Sing Out, Sweet Land (1944), Beggar’s Holiday (1946), and The Cradle Will Rock (1947) before scoring critical acclaim as Fred Graham in Kiss Me, Kate (1948), as Hajj in Kismet (1953), and as Honoré Lachalles in Gigi…

…of Rodgers and Hart’s musical Babes in Arms. That same year they made their first trip to Europe with the all-Black cast of Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds.