Paul Dickey


Biography

Paul Dickey worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Dickey worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Robin Hood" (1922) starring Douglas Fairbanks and "Tin Gods" (1926). Dickey also appeared in "Free and Easy" (1930) and "The Ghost Breakers" (1940). Later in his career, Dickey wrote the comedy adaptation "Scared Stiff" ...

Biography

Paul Dickey worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Dickey worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Robin Hood" (1922) starring Douglas Fairbanks and "Tin Gods" (1926). Dickey also appeared in "Free and Easy" (1930) and "The Ghost Breakers" (1940). Later in his career, Dickey wrote the comedy adaptation "Scared Stiff" (1953) with Dean Martin.

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Crashing Hollywood (1938) -- (Movie Clip) My Husband Is A Criminologist Herman (Paul Guilfoyle) and wife Goldie (Lee Patrick) think they’re hijacking Winston (Lee Tracy) for a suitcase full of bonds on the train, but they find out it was just his inflated sense of the value of his manuscripts, and neighbor Barbara (Joan Woodbury) needn’t have worried, in Crashing Hollywood, 1938.
Crashing Hollywood (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Who's Your Leading Man? Goldie (Lee Patrick), has just picked up Herman (Paul Guilfoyle) from prison, and at the station they meet star Lee Tracy, seeking but not getting insurance for his briefcase, then he meets Barbara (Joan Woodbury), headed for the big time, in RKO’s Crashing Hollywood, 1938.
Ghost Breakers, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Keep It In The Can Thrifty heiress Mary (Paulette Goddard) wraps business with the guys (Paul Lukas, Pedro De Cordoba) overseeing her inheritance of a Cuban castle, then disrobes while radio gossip-monger Larry (Bob Hope) goes a little too far for gangster Frenchy (Paul Fix), early in The Ghost Breakers, 1940.
Ghost Breakers, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) My Parents Had No Imagination The first meeting of the principals, Bob Hope as radio host Larry, who has angered some gangsters but who wrongly thinks he's shot a guy, dives into the hotel room of otherwise uninvolved Mary (Paulette Goddard), his sidekick Alex (Willie Best) standing by, in The Ghost Breakers, 1940.
Ghost Breakers, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Am I Protruding? Parada (Paul Lukas), whom we know is a crook, is trying to convince Mary (Paulette Goddard) that the Cuban estate she's inherited is haunted, rescued by relatively heroic Bob Hope, as radio chatterbox Larry, who's on the steamship to escape from gangsters, in The Ghost Breakers, 1940.
Free And Easy (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Elmer Butts The train station send-off for "Miss Gopher City" (Anita Page), her mother (Trixie Friganza), and Buster Keaton, (as bumbling manager "Elmer"), barely uttering his first on-screen lines, in Free And Easy, 1930.
Free And Easy (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I Broke My Autograph Bumbling manager Elmer (Buster Keaton) has got "Miss Gopher City" (Anita Page) and her "Ma" (Trixie Friganza) to their Hollywood premiere, cameos from MGM's Jackie Coogan and William Haines ensuing, in Keaton's first talkie, Free And Easy, 1930.
Free And Easy (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Act! Small-town talent agent Elmer (Buster Keaton) loose on the movie lot, fouling a stunt scene with Karl Dane and Dorothy Sebastian, then a bedroom clash with John Miljan and Gwen Lee, "directed" by Lionel Barrymore, in Free And Easy, 1930.

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