D'entre a suya filmografía, se puet destacar bellas cintas como The Big Parade (1925, con John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth y Claire McDowell), The Crowd (1928, con James Murray, Eleanor Boardman), Hallelujah! (1929, con Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William E. Fountaine, Harry Gray y Fannie Belle de Knight), The Champ (1931, con Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich y Roscoe Ates), The Wedding Night (1935, con Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy y Helen Vinson), Stella Dallas (1937, con Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley y Barbara O'Neil), The Citadel (1938, con Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson y Rex Harrison), Northwest Passage (Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan y Ruth Hussey), Duel in the Sun (1946, con Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish y Walter Huston), Beyond the Forest (1949, con Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten y David Brian), Man Without a Star (1955, con Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor y William Campbell), War and Peace (1956, con Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer y Vittorio Gassman) u Solomon and Sheba (1959, con Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders y Marisa Pavan).