Stromberg was contracted by MGM in 1925 and served as one of the production supervisors directly responsible to head of production
Irving Thalberg. He remained at MGM for 17 years, and, as a result of Thalberg's illness, rose to greater prominence after 1932. Stromberg had a strong leaning toward musicals and comedies, producing many of the popular series of
Nelson Eddy -
Jeanette MacDonald operettas. He also scored hits with MGM's first Technicolor ventures, in particular,
Northwest Passage (1940).