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Paul Gerard Smith
Born September 14, 1894 · Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Died April 4, 1968 · aged 73
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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…
Known For
Jail Bait · 1937Jail Bait
★ 5.81937
MovieComedy
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
Harold Teen · 1934Harold Teen
★ 6.51934
MovieComedyRomance
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Turn Off the Moon · 1937Turn Off the Moon
★ 8.01937
MovieComedyMusic
Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited fifteen years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His astrological advisor, Dr. Wakefield, has told him that if he can unite a boy and a girl in true love before midnight, he can propose to Myrtle the following night. Fate then brings unemployed dancer Caroline Wilson into the music department of Dinwiddy's, where she meets handsome songwriter Terry Keith.
In Holland · 1929In Holland
★ 7.01929
MovieComedy
Comedy short.
Welcome Danger · 1929Welcome Danger
★ 4.91929
MovieComedy
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Ditto · 1937Ditto
★ 5.81937
MovieComedy
Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door.
San Antonio Rose · 1941San Antonio Rose
★ 7.01941
MovieMusicWestern
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. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby · 1940I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
★ 7.01940
MovieComedyMusic
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. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
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