 Upon his arrival in Hollywood in 1925, along with Stiller and the director's other protegée Greta Garbo, Hanson starred opposite some of the era's leading ladies, including Pola Negri and Corinne Griffith.Hanson was destined for even bigger and better things at Paramount Pictures, who had bought his original five-year contract from Universal Studios.He showed great progress opposite Clara Bow and Esther Ralston in "Children of Divorce", as well as "The Woman on Trial" and "Barbed Wire" both with Pola Negri, and "Fashions for Women" (all 1927), directed by Dorothy Arzner.