Wissenswertes

Brother-in-law of Rosemary Lane and Priscilla Lane.

Was at one time engaged to Lucille Ball.

Directed three actors to Oscar nominations: Robert Montgomery (Best Actor, Urlaub vom Himmel (1941)), James Gleason (Best Supporting Actor, Urlaub vom Himmel (1941)), Rosalind Russell (Best Actress, Meine Schwester Ellen (1942)).

He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Little Miss Marker (1934).