Arthur continued to star in films such as Howard Hawks's "Only Angels Have Wings" (also 1939), with love interest Cary Grant, "The Talk of the Town" (1942), directed by George Stevens (with Cary Grant and Ronald Colman, working together for the only time, as Arthur's two leading men), and again for Stevens as a government clerk in "The More the Merrier" (1943), for which Arthur was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (losing to Jennifer Jones for "The Song of Bernadette"). As a result of being in dispute with studio boss Harry Cohn, her fee for "The Talk of the Town" (1942) was only $50,000, while her male co-stars Grant and Colman received upwards of $100,000 each. Arthur remained Columbia's top star until the mid-1940s, when she left the studio, and Rita Hayworth took over as the studio's biggest name. Stevens famously called her "one of the greatest comediennes the screen has ever seen," while Capra credited her as "my favorite actress."