[3] Grey was also a scenario writer[4] for Paramount Pictures,[5] plus he was a producer in charge of making movies based on his father’s novels.
[14] In 1930, when Grey was 21, he rented a studio in Hollywood and hired a staff of animators to make cartoons[15] about Binko the Bear-Cub, but the endeavor was not successful.
[16] In 1935 Grey was signed as a writer for Paramount Pictures,[17] and in October of that year it was reported he was adapting two of his father’s novels for the movie studio.
The two couples left for a double honeymoon trip to "points of interest in Utah and Arizona" before the Greys and the Bands returned to Pasadena, where they would be living.
[24] Grey’s brother, Loren, stated that Romer died an alcoholic from working as a writer in the shadow of his famous father.
[25] Romer Grey died on March 8, 1976, at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California from complications following pneumonia.