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The musical Here's Love adapted from his screenplay for Miracle on 34th Street by Meredith Willson proved to be more successful. From this point on he was credited as both screenwriter and director for most of his films including The Shocking Miss Pilgrim Miracle on 34th Street Apartment for Peggy Chicken Every Sunday The Big Lift For Heaven's Sake Little Boy Lost The Country Girl and The Proud and Profane. In the early 1940s he joined 20th Century Fox where he remained for the rest of the decade writing scripts for Moon Over Miami Coney Island Charley's Aunt The Song of Bernadette and others before making his directorial debut with Diamond Horseshoe in 1945.