The Paul Fix Collection contains correspondence, performance programs, newspaper clippings and photographs of Paul Fix. Paul Fix acted in the plays, Gang Law, Back to Batan, See My Lawyer, She Loves Me Not, Tall in the Saddle, On the Spot, Chicago (1927), White Magic (1928), and Small Miracle (1935). He wrote Guests of Marcado and These Few Hours. He staged Kick In (1929) and Granite. There is an interesting newspaper clipping describing how Paul Fix was transformed into a skeleton on camera in the movie Mr. Cyclops. He acted in other movies, including After The Thin Man, Flame of Barbary Coast, Crooked Road, Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep, Penitentiary, Code of the Streets, and Cheating the Stars (1938). There are also articles about John Wayne.

There is a letter from Paul Fix’s daughter, Marilyn Fix (writing from Seattle, Washington) to her mother, Mrs. Paul Fix (in Hollywood, California), 1944. Marilyn announces that a Mother’s Day present is on the way and talks about performances she has seen. 4 pages.

The collection also includes newspaper clippings about America civilian life during the 1930s and 40s. There is a 4 page pamphlet from 1942 of Air Raid Instructions, published in cooperation with Los Angeles City Defense Council. This pamphlet instructs families on how to extinguish a magnesium bomb and how to seek shelter in the event of an air raid. It also explains how to plant a Victory Garden. Frances Fix, Paul Fix’s wife, is shown in a newspaper clipping modeling the streamline effect, a style then in fashion. There are newspaper clippings about crimes and attempted crimes. There are newspaper articles about World War II.