Without bitterness, he took to translating and script-writing, including (uncredited) the script of "Ben Hur".
(uncredited; both 1945); they both won Academy Awards and resulted in his graduating to features.
It featured an all-star cast which included W.C. Fields, Gary Cooper, George Raft, and Charles Laughton in an eight-episode antwology, two episodes of which McLeod directed (uncredited).
In the mid-1920s she worked as an editor and a screenwriter for director James Cruze, serving in both roles (uncredited) on his 1926 opus about the merchant marine, Old Ironsides.
Vidor died during the filming of Song Without End (1960), a drama about composer Franz Liszt George Cukorr (uncredited) completed it.
After working (uncredited) on The Wizard of Oz (1939), Taurog made the biopic Young Tom Edison (1940), with Rooney in an acclaimed performance as the young inventor.
He collaborated on screenplays for such directors as Pietro Germi (Il cammino della speranza [1950; The Path of Hope]), Alberto Lattuada (Senza pietà [1948; Without Pity]), and Luigi Comencini (Persiane chiuse [1951; Behind Closed Shutters]); he was uncredited on the latter film.
In the early 1940s he became an assistant editor at RKO, working (uncredited) on Orson Welles's first two films, Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).
It is arguably the best screen version of the classic tale, with stunning cinematography by James Wong Howe and notable production designs by William Cameron Menzies; several other directors, including George Cukor and William A. Wellman, also worked on the film but were uncredited.
He did not work again in Hollywood for five years, though in 1956 he codirected (uncredited) the Italian film Difendo il mio amore (Defend My Love).
The epic, which centres on three soldiers during World War I, offered a honest portrayal of war, with Vidor effectively conveying the gruesome nature of trench warfare; George W. Hill directed parts of the film, but his work was uncredited.
