Screenplay: Paul Girard Smith

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Paul Girard Smith. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Argentine Nights

1940 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Patty Andrews · Maxene Andrews · Laverne Andrews · Al Ritz

Plot An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors.

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Niagara Falls

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Marjorie Woodworth · Tom Brown · ZaSu Pitts · Slim Summerville

Plot The nosy antics of a honeymooner (Slim Summerville) puts an unwed couple in the same room.

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The Boys from Syracuse

1940 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Allan Jones · Irene Hervey · Martha Raye · Joe Penner

Plot The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins...

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Love Nest on Wheels (S)

1937 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Buster Keaton · Myra Keaton · Al St. John · Lynton Brent

Plot Buster is the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel. When Ma announces that the bank is about to foreclose on the mortgage, Buster attempts to...

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Jail Bait (S)

1937 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Buster Keaton · Harold Goodwin · Bud Jamison · Matthew Betz

Plot Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.

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Sunbonnet Sue

1945 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast Gale Storm · Phil Regan · George Cleveland · Minna Gombell

Plot 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...

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Dressed to Kill

1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Edmund Lowe · Mary Astor · Ben Bard · Bob Perry

Plot A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite...

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Lady, Let's Dance

1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Frank Woodruff

Cast Belita · James Ellison · Walter Catlett · Lucien Littlefield

Plot Lady, Let's Dance was a 1944 black and white film directed by Frank Woodruff that was nominated for two Oscars. Produced by Monogram Studios, the film is unique as an...

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Wild Bill Hickok Rides

1942 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Constance Bennett · Bruce Cabot · Warren William · Betty Brewer

Plot Belle Andrews' (Constance Bennett) gambling hall burns down in the Chicago fire of 1871 and, now penniless, she accepts Jim Farrel's (Warren William) invitation to accompany him to Powder River,...

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Ladies in Love

1936 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Janet Gaynor · Loretta Young · Constance Bennett · Simone Simon

Plot Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison....

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A Broadway Romeo (S)

1931 · Movie · 15 min. · United States

Direction Mort Blumenstock

Cast Jack Benny · Estelle Brody · Tammany Young · Walter Wilson

Plot While watching a friend's news stand, Jack meets and woos a lonely out-of-towner. When they read that his girl and her fiance are getting married, they decide to pair up.

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San Antonio Rose

1941 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Jane Frazee · Robert Paige · Eve Arden · Lon Chaney Jr.

Plot A crooked night club owner tries to eliminate the competition.

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Ditto (S)

1937 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction Charles Lamont

Cast Buster Keaton · Gloria Brewster · Barbara Brewster · Harold Goodwin

Plot Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door.

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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

1940 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Broderick Crawford · Johnny Downs · Peggy Moran · Warren Hymer

Plot When Public Enemy No. 3 Sonny McGann meets composer Bob Gunther, he gets the idea of having Bob write music to a poem he has written about his long-lost sweetheart...

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Tanks a Million

1941 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Fred Guiol

Cast William Tracy · James Gleason · Noah Beery Jr. · Joe Sawyer

Plot In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a four-reel film-halfway between a short subject and a feature-designed for the...

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