Director, chiefly at MGM (from 1928-34 and from 1944-48), as well as Fox and Warner Brothers. Did his best work in the 1920s, after starting in the business as an actor with Edison back in 1911. His career declined to second features after the advent of sound. His best films are considered to be
Our Dancing Daughters (1928) and the Oscar-winning
The Broadway Melody (1929).