Bolton also wrote stage adaptations of novels by Henry James and Somerset Maugham, and wrote three novels on his own and a fourth in collaboration with Bernard Newman. He worked on screenplays for such films as "Ambassador Bill" (1931) and "Easter Parade" (1948), and published four novels, "Flowers for the Living" (with Bernard Newman, 1958), "The Olympians" (1961), "The Enchantress "(1964) and "Gracious Living" (1966). With Wodehouse, he wrote a joint memoir of their Broadway years, entitled "Bring on the Girls!" (1953).