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He wrote both music and lyrics for Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, an unusual double credit that won him a Tony for the former and a shared Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the latter. Beyond Broadway he wrote for more than sixty Hollywood films, winning the Academy Award for Best Song for "Baby, It's Cold Outside," now a holiday standard he originally wrote as a party duet to perform with his wife.