[4] Nan Halperin played Jessie Jamieson, in pursuit of Jay Velie as Paul Revere.

[5] After their success with Little Jessie James, Thompson and Archer created the musical farce My Girl that opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 24 November 1924 and starring Jane Taylor and Russell Mack.

[12] In 1929 the German director F. W. Murnau began filming Our Daily Bread for Fox, one of studio's the last silent movies.

He aimed for great realism in depicting the transition from the fields where wheat was harvested to the dark rooms in Chicago where the bread was consumed.

[15] Thompson wrote the scenario and dialog for the romantic drama Women Everywhere (Fox, 1 June 1930) starring J. Harold Murray and directed by Alexander Korda.

"[19] Thompson wrote the screenplay for Girls Demand Excitement (Fox, 1931) directed by Seymour Felix and starring Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne and Marguerite Churchill.

[21] In 1933, David O. Selznick, a producer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was negotiating with Walt Disney for co-production of a cartoon version of Baron Munchausen starring Mickey Mouse.

[22] Thompson and Victor Heerman prepared a script for the film, to be called Vas You Dere, Sharlie, but the project was abandoned.

[23] Thompson was assigned as "continuity writer" to the Mae West vehicle that became I'm No Angel (Paramount, 6 October 1933).

She had fired two writers who had been assigned by Paramount, but accepted help from Thompson, who wrote a lot of the script and some of Mae West's dialog.

"[24][25] Thompson was the main scriptwriter for Here is My Heart (Paramount, 28 December 1934), adapted from Alfred Savoir's play The Grand Duchess and the Waiter and starring Bing Crosby and Kitty Carlisle.

[27] Harlan Thompson and George Marion, Jr. wrote the scenario for Kiss and Make-Up (Paramount, 13 July 1934).

[31] During World War II (1939-1945) Thompson was made a major in 1942 after the United States entered the combat and given the direction of the Training Film Division of the US Army Signal Corps.

The unit turned out instructional films for the huge numbers of newly recruited officers and enlisted men in the expanded army.