March resisted signing long-term contracts with the studios, enabling him to play roles in films from a variety of studios. He returned to Broadway after a ten-year absence in 1937 with a notable flop, "Yr. Obedient Husband", but after the success of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth", he focused as much on Broadway as on Hollywood. He won two Best Actor Tony Awards: in 1947 for the play "Years Ago", written by Ruth Gordon and in 1957 for his performance as James Tyrone in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night". He also had major successes in "A Bell for Adano" in 1944 and "Gideon" in 1961, and he played in Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" on Broadway in 1951. During this period, he also starred in films, including "I Married a Witch" (1942) and "Another Part of the Forest" (1948). March won his second Oscar in 1946 for "The Best Years of Our Lives".