Editing Richard Greene (section)

===20th Century Fox===
At 20, he joined [[20th Century Fox]] as a rival to [[MGM]]'s [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]]. His first film for Fox was [[John Ford]]'s ''[[Four Men and a Prayer]]'' (1938). Greene was a huge success, especially with female film goers, who sent him mountains of fan mail which at its peak rivalled that of Fox star [[Tyrone Power]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169104315 |title=RICHARD GREENE IS STARRED AFTER TWO YEARS' TRAINING |newspaper=[[Truth (Sydney newspaper)|Truth]] |issue=2613 |location=Sydney  |date=4 February 1940 |access-date=23 September 2017 |page=42 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Greene co-starred with [[Sonia Henie]] in ''[[My Lucky Star (1938 film)|My Lucky Star]]'' (1938) and was reunited with Ford in ''[[Submarine Patrol]]'' (1939). Zanuck put him in ''[[Kentucky (film)|Kentucky]]'' (1938) with [[Loretta Young]] and [[Walter Brennan]].

Greene was the romantic male lead in the [[Shirley Temple]] vehicle ''[[The Little Princess (1939 film)|The Little Princess]]'' (1939) and was Sir Henry Baskerville in the 1939 [[Sherlock Holmes]] film ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]''. The film marked the first pairing of [[Basil Rathbone]] and [[Nigel Bruce]] as Sherlock Holmes and [[Dr. Watson]], but it was Greene who was top billed.

Greene had a supporting part in ''[[Stanley and Livingstone]]'' (1939) with [[Spencer Tracy]] and the lead in ''[[Here I Am a Stranger]]'' (1939). He co-starred with [[Alice Faye]] and [[Fred MacMurray]] in ''[[Little Old New York (1940 film)|Little Old New York]]'' (1940) and supported [[Vera Zorina]] in ''[[I Was an Adventuress]]'' (1940). He had failed to become a major star but he was still playing leads in "A" movies when World War II began.