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Wrote the songs Marlene Dietrich sang in The Blue Angel (1930), the Weimar Berlin film that made her a star, after building a name in the city's cabaret world running the Tingel-Tangel-Theater. Driven out of Germany in 1933 for being Jewish, he rebuilt his career in Hollywood, scoring over a hundred films — including Destry Rides Again (1939) and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953) — and earning four Academy Award nominations. He returned to Munich in 1956 and kept writing revues until his death in 1976.