Cairo (1942). Highlight: "Buds Won't Bud" (Arlen) sung by Ethel Waters with a scatted coda. Also starring Jeanette MacDonald and Robert Young.

Presenting Lily Mars (1943). Judy Garland sings "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" (Lane). Extra feature on the DVD: audio of "Paging Mr. Greenback" (Brown, Fain, Edens), which was cut from the film.

Cabin in the Sky (1943). Harburg-Arlen songs include "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" and "Life's Full of Consequence" sung by Ethel Waters and Lena Horne-Eddie Anderson, respectively.

DuBarry Was a Lady (1943). The Yip Harburg-Arthur Schwartz song "Salome" is sung here by Virginia O'Brien.

Thousands Cheer (1943). "Let There Be Music (Brent) and "United Nations on the March" (Rome, Shostakovich). This is not a film version of the 1933 Irving Berlin Broadway revue, As Thousands Cheer.

Princess O'Rourke (1943). The song "Honorable Moon," written by Yip with Ira Gershwin and Arthur Schwartz in 1941 for a China War Relief benefit, was sung in a nightclub sequence in this Warner Bros. feature.

Song of Russia (1943). "And Russia Is Her Name," by Yip and Jerome Kern, is sung in a nightclub sequence. Not commercially available.

Cover Girl (1944). The co-lyricists for the song "Make Way for Tomorrow" (sung and danced by Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly and Phil Silvers) were Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg, but Yip is not cited in the film's credits. His name does appear, however, on the published sheet music for this song.

Kismet (1944). Marlene Dietrich sings a few bars of "Tell Me, Tell Me, Evening Star" and Joy Ann Page lip-synchs "Willow in the Wind" to the voice of Doreen Tryden (both songs with music by Arlen).

Meet the People (1944). Yip produced this film version of the successful stage musical by Jay Gorney and Henry Myers. Songs include two written with Sammy Fain ("In Times Like These" and "Schicklegruber"), one with Burton Lane ("It's Smart to Be People") and one with Harold Arlen ("Heave-Ho," sung by Bert Lahr - the last of … Continue Reading ››