As an MGM contract player, 1941-1942, he worked as Douglass Newland in
at least eight films; as a Columbia contract player, 1942-1943, he
worked as Douglass Drake in at least ten films; under contract to
Warner Bros. in 1943, he adopted the name of the character he played in
Mr. Skeffington (filmed 1943, released 1944), i.e. 'Johnny Mitchell',
and worked in only three more films: Cinderella Jones (filmed 1943,
released 1946), Pillow to Post (filmed 1944, released 1945), and a
cameo bit as himself in Hollywood Canteen (1944), thus ending his
career in front of the cameras in late 1944, although the delayed
release of Cinderella Jones makes it look like he was still working two
years later.
