Charles Marquis Warren in a play entitled "No Sun, No Moon", which was staged at Princeton University. Warren decided to go to Hollywood in 1933 when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took an option on the play. With the help of his godfather, Warren secured a position as a staff writer for the studio. His early assignments included working on the scripts for "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and "Top Hat" (1935) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He made the latter film on loan out to RKO Radio Pictures. Warren eventually left Hollywood for New York where he found success
Clark Gable with Spencer Tracy, which boosted Tracy's career and permanently cemented them in the public mind as a team. "San Francisco" (1936) featured Tracy in an only 17-minute, but Oscar-nominated, role in which he played a priest who knocks Gable, by then the studio's foremost leading man, down in a boxing ring. Their next film together was "Test Pilot" with Myrna Loy, in which Gable plays a dashing test pilot and Tracy is his admiring sidekick, another box office bonanza for the studio. For their final film, "Boom Town", Tracy moves up a rung with a larger part than earlier, almost