some of his popular tunes for the big screen are "laughing irish eyes" for the 1936 film of the same name, "sweet hearts" for "hit parade of 1937" and for the 1942 movie "private buckaroo", "don't sit under the apple tree" and "johnny get your gun." stept's output slowed down in the late 1940s, and by the late 1950s, he was concentrating fully on his music-publishing business.