==Career==The following year, he joined the Theatre Guild and played Curly in their production of "Green Grow the Lilacs" (later to become the famous musical "Oklahoma!").
Preselil se je v Greenwich Village, New York, in leta 1929 dobil svojo prvo pomembnejšo broadwaysko vlogo v igri "The Age of Innocence", v kateri je ob njem nastopila Katharine Cornell.