Before the formation of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924, Barrymore forged a good relationship with Louis B. Mayer early on at Metro Pictures. He made several silent features for Metro, some surviving, some now lost. In 1923, Barrymore and Fenwick went to Italy to film "The Eternal City" for Metro Pictures in Rome, combining work with their honeymoon. He occasionally freelanced, returning to Griffith in 1924 to film "America". In 1924, he also went to Germany to star in British producer-director Herbert Wilcox's Anglo-German co-production "Decameron Nights", filmed at UFA's Babelsberg studios outside of Berlin. In 1925, he left New York for Hollywood. He starred as Frederick Harmon in director Henri Diamant-Berger's drama "Fifty-Fifty" (1925) opposite Hope Hampton and Louise Glaum, and made several more freelance motion pictures, including "The Bells" (Chadwick Pictures 1926) with a then-unknown Boris Karloff. His last film for Griffith was in 1928's "Drums of Love".