A bigger star

He did star, or co-star, in quite a few A-level pictures, like "Kitty Foyle", "Captains of the Clouds", "The Desert Song", "Shine on Harvest Moon", "Christmas in Connecticut", "The Time, the Place, and the Girl", "My Wild Irish Rose", "Two Guys from Texas", and "It's a Great Feeling". And as you said, he was the whole package--good actor, good singer, good-looking, and charismatic. He was one of the highest-paid performers of the 1940s, extremely popular, no doubt an A-list star. His career faded in the 1950s and he did a lot of television and some B movies. The light comedies and musicals he did during the height of his career in the '40s just don't happen to be the sort of movies that have endured in popularity, other than to old-movie buffs, so he isn't very well remembered today.

The only thing I’ve seen him in is Christmas in Connecticut and I was immediately taken by him. So handsome and charismatic!