Writing

Paul Yawitz

Born — Died

1900-02-15 — 1983-06-10

Place of birth

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Yawitz (1900–1983) was an American journalist and screenwriter.

Known for

Behind the camera

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood poster
5.6

Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good deed, he is accused of theft, but is allowed to proceed to Hollywood to help the police find a lost diamond.

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

1942

The Chance of a Lifetime poster
6.7

A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.

The Chance of a Lifetime

1943

The Affairs of Annabel poster
5.4

Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.

The Affairs of Annabel

1938

I Love a Bandleader poster
8.0

A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.

I Love a Bandleader

1945

Little Accident poster
5.5

A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

Little Accident

1939

Honolulu Lu poster
5.8

While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.

Honolulu Lu

1941

Go Chase Yourself poster
5.7

When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.

Go Chase Yourself

1938

The Falcon's Alibi poster
5.4

A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.

The Falcon's Alibi

1946

They Wanted to Marry poster
5.8

Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She even likes his pigeon, who travels everywhere with him.

They Wanted to Marry

1937

She Has What It Takes poster
9.0

Fay Weston, a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.

She Has What It Takes

1943

The Racket Man poster
7.7

A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.

The Racket Man

1944

Fixer Dugan poster
6.5

Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.

Fixer Dugan

1939

One Mysterious Night poster
6.2

After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday recruits former thief Boston Blackie to retrieve the stone. Along with his assistant, 'The Runt', Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt trick their way to discovering the perpetrators.

One Mysterious Night

1944

Alias Boston Blackie poster
5.7

It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.

Alias Boston Blackie

1942

Blond Cheat poster
7.3

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.

Blond Cheat

1938

Crashing Hollywood poster
6.0

A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.

Crashing Hollywood

1938

Saturday's Heroes poster
8.0

College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

Saturday's Heroes

1937

Breakfast for Two poster
5.9

After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.

Breakfast for Two

1937

Louisiana Hayride poster
7.5

A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings.

Louisiana Hayride

1944