In these years he starred in romantic comedies such as "Thin Ice" and "Day-Time Wife", in dramas such as "Suez", "Blood and Sand", "", "The Rains Came" and "In Old Chicago"; in musicals "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Second Fiddle", and "Rose of Washington Square"; in the westerns "Jesse James" (1939) and "Brigham Young"; in the war films "A Yank in the R.A.F."