By Greg Crosby"In 1935, he became President of the Screen Actors Guild, his first of what would become four terms as SAG head. In 1941 he received an Academy Award for his classic performance in the original "Here Comes Mr. Jordan." All in all he stayed with MGM for 16 years, up until World War II when he joined the navy as a commissioned lieutenant. He then became assistant naval attache at the U.S. embassy in London and then assigned to set up a naval operations room in the White House.
Later he commanded a PT boat in the Pacific and was an operations officer aboard a destroyer during the D-Day invasion of France. By then he was a lieutenant commander and was awarded the Bronze Star and later decorated as a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor."
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As a SAG leader, he stood up for the little guy when he was one of the big ones.
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