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Paul Gerard Smith (September 14, 1894 – April 4, 1968) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 90 films between 1926 and 1955.
Smith started writing musical revues at the age of ten. He joined the Marines for World War I and while still in Germany wrote and directed the Sixth Marine Revue in the Rhine Occupation Area. He arrived back in the States in 1919 and started writing vaudeville acts. He became so successful that he was one of the few writers to be credited on the playbill. He scripted the Ziegfeld Follies of 1924, 1925, and 1926 and was also one of the writers of Funny Face.
Smith was brought to Hollywood by Buster Keaton to work on The General and Battling Butler. Early film credits include In Old Arizona, Mother Knows Best, and Dressed to Kill, as well as the first talkies of Harold Lloyd, Welcome Danger and Feet First. He wrote dozens of B movies for Universal Studios, Fox Film Corporation, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Bros., and Hal Roach Studios.
He also scripted USO shows and personal appearances for many film and radio stars entertaining overseas. After World War II he returned to film and radio scripting and also wrote and directed some early television programs on ABC, including The Gay Nineties Revue. He returned to stage writing with Hullabaloo for the Pasadena Playhouse.
Most Popular Paul Gerard Smith Trailers
Total trailers found: 58
20 June 1941
San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns.
20 April 1939
A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.
01 May 1943
Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.
08 February 1933
This Sports Champion short showcases professional wrestling. Wrestlers are shown in training and practice, then in an actual match.
09 October 1942
It's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead.
01 June 1941
A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success.
22 December 1937
Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse.
22 June 1930
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs.
30 October 1930
An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon.
08 September 1944
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers.
31 January 1942
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
29 November 1933
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
01 September 1940
Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter.
07 April 1934
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show.
27 November 1930
On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despairing young woman from committing suicide.
01 February 1942
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
22 March 1944
An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer.
12 September 1941
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory.
03 December 1937
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.
26 September 1931
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
24 July 1936
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
13 June 1941
In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.
31 May 1940
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals.
02 September 1944
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his niece.
01 May 1940
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad.
13 December 1941
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
15 January 1947
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine.
08 November 1940
A young widow lets her baby be the deciding factor as to which eligible bachelor she should marry.
18 January 1933
This short follows two duck hunters in the Sacramento River Valley.
28 March 1938
Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.
22 March 1947
The swamp folk of the deep Okefenokee live a brutal primitive life untouched by modern times - they support themselves by hunting alligators and selling them to the outside world.
25 December 1941
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
27 April 1935
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father.
09 August 1935
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
05 October 1945
Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's daughter who loves nothing more than to perform in her father's tavern.
26 March 1937
Buster, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure.
19 September 1941
In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety show.
18 October 1930
Husband and wife decide to carry on their arguing by red-light-green-light traffic lights.
13 May 1929
Two zany transients get jobs as vendors at a sports arena. One of them accidently knocks out one of the fighters, and must take his place, with his partner acting as referee.
14 December 1934
A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
14 May 1937
Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited fifteen years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep.
11 November 1938
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
12 February 1937
Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door.
02 May 1936
Johnny Dime has aspirations of becoming a "G-Man," but gums up the work of actual agent Rogan, in his pursuit of Public Enemy No.
01 September 1942
The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production.
21 January 1931
A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover.
08 January 1937
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
01 June 1936
An amoral young dancer falls in love with a band leader.
17 October 1941
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
10 October 1930
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter.
04 October 1935
Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps.
11 April 1944
Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita.
04 December 1943
Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes incorrectly is being rationed as a war measure.
12 October 1929
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
06 February 1929
Comedy short.
26 September 1932
The adventures of a married couple as they explore Mexico.
20 October 1948
A tale of feuding and revenge among whalers in Alaska in the late 19th century.
28 March 1931
Jack Benny, his finances at a low ebb, watches a newsstand for a friend and picks up a young lady customer, equally broke.
