 He was also the Welsh dialect coach on "The Corn Is Green" (1945) starring Bette Davis.Cecil B. DeMille called him "a young idealist", and Fulton Oursler described him as "the charm boy to end all charm boys".In 1929, like many others, he lost his fortune in the Wall Street crash and was left penniless, but he carried on making films until 1931 when he appeared in "Scareheads."