Paul Gerard Smith
Writer, Actor, Director
September 14, 1894 — April 4, 1968 (73 years)
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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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 1954 | |
| 1949 | |
| 1947 | Untamed Fury · as ScreenplayOn 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 ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1941 | Tanks a MillionOn Plex |
| 1941 | |
| 1941 | Hurry, Charlie, Hurry · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | The Boys from Syracuse · as Screenplay |
| 1937 | Thrill of a Lifetime · as Screenplay |
| 1936 | Earthworm TractorsOn Plex |
| 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 | The GeneralOn Plex |
| 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 DialogueOn 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 | Just Around the Corner · as Story |
| 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 | She Served Him Right · as Story |
| 1931 | Sidewalks of New York · as Story |
| 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 NameOn Plex |