Became a U. S. Citizen in 1933 and won the Academy Award 1943 for Watch on the Rhine (1943).
Died in Tangier, Morocco, while searching for a place to spend his retirement years.
His cousin, Edwin J. Lucas, was the second husband of Betty Field.
Sings Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's song "None But the Lonely Heart" (English title) in Little Women (1933).