Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whai waahi a Knowlden ki a Florence Udney i te kiriata hitori o te hitori o te tau 1936 "Anthony Adverse", me Fredric March i roto i te mahi matua, me Olivia de Havilland hei wahine rangatira. I whakaingoatia mō te Pikitia Pai rawa atu i te
Ko te 9 Academy Awards i te tau e whai ake nei. I whakauruhia ia ki "Rainbow on the River" (1936), ko Bobby Breen te kaiwhakaari, tetahi o nga kiriata tamariki ruarua i puta a Knowlden. I whakamoemiti tetahi kaitohutohu mai i te Detroit Free Press ki tana mahi hei Lucille Layton, e kii ana ko ia "he kaiwhakaari iti pai". I te kiriata whakaari hitori o te tau 1938 "Marie Antoinette", i whakaahuatia e ia te rangatira rangatira a Marie Thérèse o France, tamahine o te taitara taitara, i whakaarihia e Norma Shearer. I takaro hoki ia i a Laurie Martin, te aroha o te ahua o James Cagney, i a ia e tamariki ana i roto i te "Angels with Dirty Faces" i taua tau ano.