sentences:  In 1942 he was musical director for Ed Sullivan's Harlem Cavalcade.Despite his success and popularity at the time, Vodery is largely unknown today, partly because he received no screen credit in the 1936 film version of "Show Boat", and partly because some modern productions of the show do not use his arrangements.He died on November 18, 1951, only four months after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1951 Technicolor film version of "Show Boat", on which he did not work, had been released.