participated in the writing of ten screenplays, the most remembered of which is the 1945 production, Rhapsody in Blue; he also wrote the screenplay for the Poverty Row production of New Orleans, a fictional history of Storyville jazz featuring Billie Holiday in her only acting role. He also contributed to London Town (1946), one of the most infamous flops in British cinema history. In 1949 he provided subtitles for the US release of Claude Autant-Lara's film Devil in the Flesh (Le Diable au corps). Contemptuous of the censorship imposed on the studios by the Hays Code, Paul mocked Hollywood's hypocritical puritanism in his satiric book from 1942, With a Hays Nonny Nonny, where he reworked Bible stories so that they complied with the Code. The Book of Esther, for example, becomes a vehicle for Don Ameche, with Groucho Marx as Mordecai. A talented pianist, he frequently supplemented his income by playing at local clubs in the Los Angeles area. Paul married and divorced five times - Rosa Gertrude Brown (1919-1925), Camille Haynes (1925-1937), Flora Thompson (1937-1940), Barbara Mayock (1940-1949), and Nancy Dolan McMahon (1950-1957). He had one son with Camille Haynes. He died in 1958 at the Veterans' Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Partial list of screenwriting credits A Woman's Face (1941) Rhapsody in Blue (1945) It's a Pleasure (1945) London Town (1946) (U.S. title My Heart Goes Crazy) New Orleans (1947) Bibliography Novels Indelible (novel)|Indelible (1922) Impromptu (1923) Imperturbe (1924) Low Run Tide and Lava Rock (1929) The Amazon (novel)|The Amazon (1930) The Governor of Massachusetts (1930) Concert Pitch (1938) The Stars and Stripes Forever (book)|The Stars and Stripes Forever (1939) The Death of Lord Haw Haw (as Brett Rutledge, 1940) A Narrow Street (British title of The Last Time I Saw Paris) (1942) Paris: Twenty-Eight Drawings by Jean Vigoureux (introduction; 1942) Summer in December (1945) Linden on the Saugus Branch (1946) A Ghost Town on the Yellowstone (1948) My Old Kentucky Home (book)|My Old Kentucky Home (1949) Desperate Scenery (1954) Homer Evans series The Mysterious Mickey Finn (1939) Hugger Mugger in the Louvre (1940) Mayhem in B-Flat (1940) Fracas in the Foothills (1940) I'll Hate Myself in the Morning (1945) Murder on the Left Bank (1951) The Black Gardenia (1952) Waylaid in Boston (1953) The Black and the Red (1956) Non-fiction Life and Death of a Spanish Town (1937) Intoxication Made Easy (1941) The Last Time I Saw