Darryl F. Zanuck was angry that MGM used Fox's biggest star in what was, despite billing, a supporting role, and he vowed to never again loan him out, though Power's services were requested for the role of Ashley Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind"; Joe Bonaparte in "Golden Boy"; Paris in "King's Row"; roles in several films produced by Harry Cohn; and to play Irving Thalberg in a planned production by Norma Shearer of "The Last Tycoon".