Popular singer of the 1940s ("Linda," "How Are Things in Glocca Mora?," several popular duets with Doris Day) and occasional film actor. Before achieving fame on his own, he also dubbed in singing for several non-singing actors (Jack Haley, William Holden) on film and sang with Wayne King's orchestra. He died in 1949 at the age of 37, at the height of his fame, when the private plane in which he was returning from a Stanford University football game crashed onto Beverly Boulevard in Hollywood, California.Studied law at Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) before getting involved with music.He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6800 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.