Mankiewicz had a commercial and critical success with "Fury" (1936), the first American film directed by Fritz Lang. Mankiewicz produced a series of films starring Crawford: "The Gorgeous Hussy" (1936), "Love on the Run" (1936), "The Bride Wore Red" (1937), and "Mannequin" (1937). Mankewicz also produced "Double Wedding" (1937) with William Powell and Myrna Loy; "Three Comrades" (1938), with Margaret Sullavan and Robert Taylor and director Frank Borzage, famously rewriting F. Scott Fitzgerald; "The Shopworn Angel" (1938) with Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart; "The Shining Hour" (1938) with Sullavan and Crawford, directed by Borzage. He also did some uncredited writing on "The Great Waltz" (1938), and the script which became "The Pirate" (1948). He produced "A Christmas Carol" (1938); "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1939) with Mickey Rooney; and "Strange Cargo" (1940) with Gable and Crawford, directed by Borzage. He had a huge hit with "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart. It was followed by "The Wild Man of Borneo" (1941), and "The Feminine Touch" (1941), then he had another big success with Hepburn, "Woman of the Year" (1942), her first teaming with Spencer Tracy. Mankiewicz's final productions at MGM were "Cairo" (1942) with Jeanette MacDonald and "Reunion in France" (1942) with Crawford and John Wayne. Mankiewicz received an offer at 20th Century Fox which included the right to direct. His first film for the studio was "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944), which he wrote with Nunnally Johnson and produced. It co starred his wife Rose Stradner. Mankiewicz made his directorial debut with "Dragonwyck" (1946), which he also wrote; Gene Tierney and Vincent Price starred. He followed it with "Somewhere in the Night" (1946) a film noir which he co wrote. He worked as director only on "The Late George Apley" (1947) with Ronald Colman, "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1948) with Tierney and Rex Harrison, and "Escape" (1948) with Harrison.