Paul Gerard Smith

Sceneggiatore, Attore, Regista

14 settembre 1894 — 4 aprile 1968 (73 anni)
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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.

Film e Serie su Plex

  • Come vinsi la guerra
    Come vinsi la guerra1926
  • Se perdo la pazienza...
    Se perdo la pazienza...1926
  • Una bionda in paradiso
    Una bionda in paradiso1941
  • L'irresistibile
    L'irresistibile1936
  • Tanks a Million
    Tanks a Million1941
  • Niagara Falls
    Niagara Falls1941
  • Untamed Fury
    Untamed Fury1947

Famoso per

  • Come vinsi la guerra
    Come vinsi la guerra1926
  • Se perdo la pazienza...
    Se perdo la pazienza...1926
  • Una bionda in paradiso
    Una bionda in paradiso1941
  • A rotta di collo
    A rotta di collo1928
  • Notte di tradimento
    Notte di tradimento1928
  • Il figlio dello sceicco
    Il figlio dello sceicco1926
  • Evviva il pericolo!
    Evviva il pericolo!1929
  • Il vento tra i salici
    Il vento tra i salici1949
  • Il milionario
    Il milionario1931
  • Piano coi piedi
    Piano coi piedi1930
  • Private Buckaroo
    Private Buckaroo1942
  • Dietro l'angolo
    Dietro l'angolo1938
  • Tanks a Million
    Tanks a Million1941
  • Heavenly Music
    Heavenly Music1943
  • It's a Joke, Son!
    It's a Joke, Son!1947
  • Niagara Falls
    Niagara Falls1941
  • Steel Against the Sky
    Steel Against the Sky1941
  • L'irresistibile
    L'irresistibile1936

Filmografia

1954
1949
1947
Untamed Fury · as ScreenplaySu Plex
1947
It's a Joke, Son! · as Screenplay
1944
Show Business · as Contributing Writer
1944
Lady, Let's Dance · as Screenplay
1944
1943
Heavenly Music · as Screenplay
1942
Here We Go Again · as Screenplay
1942
Give Out, Sisters · as Screenplay
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides · as Screenplay
1941
You're in the Army Now · as Screenplay
1941
Steel Against the Sky · as Screenplay
1941
Niagara Falls · as ScreenplaySu Plex
1941
1941
1941
Hurry, Charlie, Hurry · as Screenplay
1940
The Boys from Syracuse · as Screenplay
1937
Thrill of a Lifetime · as Screenplay
1936
1936
1934
One Hour Late · as Screenplay
1934
Harold Teen · as Screenplay
1933
Son of a Sailor · as Screenplay
1930
1930
1928
1928
1928
1926
1926

1937
This Way Please · as Dance Instructor
1930
Feet First · as Seasick Passenger

1945
Sunbonnet Sue · as Story
1943
Thumbs Up · as Contributor To Screenplay
1942
Private Buckaroo · as Original Story
1941
Topper Returns · as Additional DialogueSu Plex
1941
Footlight Fever · as Contributor To Screenplay
1940
Argentine Nights · as Contributor To Dialogue And Screenplay
1940
She Couldn't Say No · as Theatre Play
1938
1935
Rumba · as Screenplay Contributor
1935
Wings in the Dark · as Contributor To Treatment
1934
It's a Gift · as Contributor To Treatment
1934
The Circus Clown · as Additional Dialogue
1931
1931
1931
Cab Waiting · as Story
1931
A Broadway Romeo · as Story
1930
One on the Aisle · as Story
1930
Feet First · as Dialogue
1930
Heads Up · as Theatre Play
1929
Welcome Danger · as Dialogue
1926
Battling Butler · as Adapted By: From The 1923 Stage Success Of The Same NameSu Plex