Editing Victor McLaglen (section)

===''The Informer''===
[[File:Victor McLaglen-Margot Grahame in The Informer.jpg|thumb|upright|right|With [[Margot Grahame]] in ''[[The Informer (1935 film)|The Informer]]'' (1935)]]
Another highlight of his career was winning an [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] for his role in Ford's ''[[The Informer (1935 film)|The Informer]]'' (1935), shot at RKO, based on a [[The Informer (novel)|novel of the same name]] by [[Liam O'Flaherty]].<ref name="Daley" /> In 1945, McLaglen said that winning the Oscar had no economic benefit and that he didn't know where it was because his son had taken it to college for use as a paperweight.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Heffernan |first1=Harold |title=How Good Is an Oscar? - Some Prize, Others Ignore Awards |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80228488/the-star-press/ |access-date=June 25, 2021 |work=The Star Press |agency=North America Newspaper Alliance |date=April 22, 1945 |location=Indiana, Muncie |page=18|via = [[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref>

Back at Fox – now [[20th Century Fox]] – McLaglen made ''[[Professional Soldier]]'' (1935) with [[Freddie Bartholomew]].<ref>{{cite news |title=New Films |work=Daily Herald |date=15 May 1936 |access-date=22 September 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19360515/322/0018| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> At Paramount, he was teamed with [[Mae West]] in ''[[Klondike Annie]]'' (1936), then he went back to Fox for ''[[Under Two Flags (1936 film)|Under Two Flags]]'' (1936) with [[Rosalind Russell]] and [[Ronald Colman]].

McLaglen starred in ''[[The Magnificent Brute (1936 film)|The Magnificent Brute]]'' (1936) for Universal, ''[[Sea Devils (1937 film)|Sea Devils]]'' (1937) for RKO and ''[[Nancy Steele Is Missing!]]'' (1937) for Fox. He stayed at Fox to support Robert Taylor in ''[[This Is My Affair]]'' (1937), and notably, [[Shirley Temple]] in ''[[Wee Willie Winkie (film)|Wee Willie Winkie]]'' (1937) directed by John Ford at Fox.<ref>{{cite news |title=Film Art Now Beats Nature |work=Daily Herald |date=13 August 1937 |access-date=22 September 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19370813/211/0013| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He had a cameo in ''[[Ali Baba Goes to Town]]'' (1937). [[Brian Donlevy]] and he made a comedy ''[[Battle of Broadway]]'' (1938) at Fox,<ref>{{cite news |title="Battle of Broadway" – with Victor McLaglen as a Doughboy |work=The Sketch |date=17 August 1938 |access-date=22 September 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001860/19380817/040/0037| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> then he went to Universal for ''[[The Devil's Party]]'' (1938).