It was one of four of his books that were eventually made into blockbuster motion pictures, the other three being The Robe, White Banners and The Big Fisherman.
Suleiman the Magnificent | The Magnificent Seven | The Magnificent Ambersons | Magnificent Obsession | Magnificent Mile | Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines | The Magnificent Ambersons (film) | Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West | The Summer Obsession | The Magnificent Cuckold | Obsession | Magnificent Obsession (1935 film) | Magnificent Frigatebird | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines | The Magnificent Void | The Magnificent Seven Ride! | The Magnificent Seven Ride | Obsession Telescopes | Obsession (perfume) | Obsession (1997 film) | obsession | My Obsession | Magnificent (Rivoli's) Hummingbird | Magnificent Riflebird | Magnificent Obsession (1954 film) | Magnificent Montague |
As the Earth Turns, was a blockbuster success and the number two selling novel of 1933 according to Publishers Weekly, second only to Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse and outselling such well-remembered books as Lloyd C. Douglas's Magnificent Obsession and Sinclair Lewis's Ann Vickers.
One of his best known roles was in the Douglas Sirk film Magnificent Obsession (1954).