Anecdotes

In the 1920s, he and Marion Fairfax lived in a Moroccan home in Hollywood designed by S.O. Clements of the Frank Meline Company of Hollywood.

Was in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: Grand Hôtel (1932), Le marquis de Saint-Evremond (1935) and Sergent York (1941). Only the first of these won.

He was born on the same day the Battle of Half Mountain began in Kentucky during the Civil War. He was a year and a day old when Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater.