Paul Girard Smith
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 2 (Director), 36 (Writer)
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Based on the musical comedy of the same name, the film casts Keaton as wimpy millionaire Alfred Butler, who goes on a vacation in the mountains in the company of his faithful valet (Snitz Edwards). While communing with nature, Alfred falls in love with a beautiful young girl (Sally O'Neil), who barely acknowledges his existence. (AllMovie)
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Cab Waiting (1931) - Short Film
In an erudite driver's taxi, Jack Benny shares a ride with a very pretty and delightfully flirtatious young lady. (imdb)
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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. After one night at the broken down Ramble Inn, where they spent their first honeymoon, they decide to go across the lake to a swanky (and expensive) lodge, where they bump into their old friends Edgar Bergan, Charlie McCarthy, Gildersleeve, and Mrs. Uppington, so the party is on again. (imdb)
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A proud Southern man, Beauregard Claghorn (the inspiration for Foghorn Leghorn), is forced to run for state senator against his wife when he is met by corrupt political henchman set on splitting the opposition.
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Jail Bait (1937) - Short Film
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his roommate, a reporter, searches for the real killer. (imdb)
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Margie Blake (Marjorie Woodworth), who wants to get married young and have two dozen kids, has a flat tire and traveling salesman Tom Wilson (Tom Brown), who believes in "loving 'em and leaving 'em" stops to help. They soon discover they are polar opposites and dislike each other very much. (archive.org)
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The story starts realistically enough, with 10-year-old Penny Hale (Temple) sharing a basement apartment with her widowed father Jeff (Charles Farrell, in his final Fox film). Once a prosperous architect, Jeff has been working as a hotel janitor-engineer ever since the Wall Street Crash. Ordered by pompous hotel concierge Waters (Franklin Pangborn) to keep her place, Penny nonetheless has fun wandering the lobbies of the posh establishment under the watchful and protective eyes of her friends... (allmovie.com)
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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, Montana, to open a gambling casino. Farrel has plans to get control of all the land in Powder River by hiring henchmen to file claims on the land, a proceeding overlooked by the settlers. On the stagecoach to Powder River, they meet Wild Bill Hickok (Bruce Cabot). (imdb)
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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. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm. (imdb)
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A Broadway Romeo (1931) - Short Film
Jack Benny, his finances at a low ebb, watches a newsstand for a friend and picks up a young lady customer, equally broke. (imdb)
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Help Wanted, Female (1931) - Short Film
A new housekeeper, her son, and two not-too-bright burglars wreak havoc at a doctor's office. (imdb)
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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. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance... (imdb)
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Harold seems to flop at every thing he tries, his school work, his newspaper job, even his car is repossessed. It even looks like his girl is losing interest until a school musical is put on,when he shows himself to be an incredible dancer. (imdb)
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A sequel to the zany backstage comedy Curtain Call, RKO Radio's Footlight Fever once again stars Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride as fly-by-night theatrical producers Avery and Crandall. This time, our heroes try to weasel money out of a potential backer, spinsterish millionaire Hattie (Elisabeth Risdon). Part of the scheme requires Avery and Crandall to pose as the seafaring buddies of Hattie's long-lost fiance, leading to the usual complications when said fiance finally shows up. (allmovie.com)
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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 Sadie McGlonsky. Somewhere between kidnapping and gentle persuasion, Sonny takes Bob and his girlfriend Linda Carroll to his penthouse hideout and orders Bob to write the music. After completion, Sonny and his mob use some strong-arm persuasion to get it on "The Hit Parade. (imdb)
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Love Nest on Wheels (1937) - Short Film
Buster, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure. (imdb)
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A young couple buy a bankrupt vaudeville booking agency, and try to make it a success. (imdb)
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What, No Men? (1935) - Short Film
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study. (imdb)
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Heavenly Music (1943) - Short Film
Boogie-woogie band-leader Ted Barry is outside the pearly gates. Because of Ted's musical background, the gatekeeper points him in the direction of the Hall of Music section, where he is escorted by an angel named Joy, who is in awe of Ted and his musical abilities. Before Ted can enter heaven, he must pass the approval of the Hall of Music's judiciary, which is comprised of who are considered the best ever composers and musicians, led by Ludwig van Beethoven. (imdb)
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Compliments of the Season (1930) - Short Film
A released robber stops a young lady on Christmas eve from committing suicide by jumping in the water. She's from the country and can't find her friend who came to New York earlier but has moved. The robber, who is being followed by a detective, suggests having a little party together, but both are flat broke, so he robs a man passing on the street, who turns out to be the missing boy friend, but he has already called the police... (imdb)
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A smooth-talking sailor looking for a quick date meets the granddaughter of an admiral and finds himself in a house full of top Navy officers, along with a couple of spies interested in plans for a new robot-controlled flight system. (imdb)
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Rough-hewn Rocky Evans has two great loves--his job building bridges and beautiful Helen Powers, his boss' daughter. But it's Rocky's shiftless brother Chuck who wins Helen's affections. Chuck even takes a job on Rocky's bridge-building crew to woo Helen, but the two brothers soon find themselves clashing over work and love. (imdb)
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A native son returns to the isolated, backwards village in the Okefenokee Swamp where he was raised, with ideas of bringing modern day progress in terms of schools, canals, new roads, running water, and other needed changes, but is met with resistance by nearly all of the residents, some out of ignorance, and some with selfish vested interests in seeing that no changes be made.
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Girls Will Be Boys (1931) - Short Film
A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover. They both land in the hospital, sadder and sicker as a result of their experience.
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A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.
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Ditto (1937) - Short Film
Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door. (imdb)
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"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.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating.
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It's 1890s New York, and a rich society woman is scandalized that her niece is planning on a show-business career; not only that, but her first engagement is to be singing and dancing in a Bowery saloon. She determines to put a stop to her niece's career path.
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When the romance between radio-singer Eddie Blake and Bessie Dunn goes sour through a series of misunderstanding, Bessie packs to take a week-end trip with the station boss,Stephen Barclay, and Eddie proposes to Hazel, who appears to be open to any kind of proposal. With all of the principals involved and in the office elevator, a cable breaks and the elevator is suspended between floors...and the resolvements begin.
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My Tomato (1943) - Short Film
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. Mrs. Doakes knows that tomatoes aren't rationed, but she doesn't correct him, especially after he announces that he will grow enough tomatoes to feed the entire block.
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A crooked night club owner tries to eliminate the competition. Introduces 'The Hut Sut Song.'
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A struggling husband-wife songwriting team try to sell a radio program in the midst of crooked producers, song-stealing friends, repo men, and an overly amorous sponsor.
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The manager of a large department store consults the starry heavens when he needs answers to perplexing problems.
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Waltzing Around (1929) - Short Film
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.
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