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William A. Seiter is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Associate Producer American born on 10 june 1890 at New York City (USA)
William A. Seiter (né le 10 juin 1890 à New York et mort le 26 juillet 1964 (à 74 ans) à North Hollywood, Californie) est un réalisateur, scénariste et producteur américain.
(1944)
(Director)
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Nationality USA
Birth 10 june 1890 at New York City (USA)
Death 26 july 1964 (at 74 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Birth 10 june 1890 at New York City (USA)
Death 26 july 1964 (at 74 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
William A. Seiter (né le 10 juin 1890 à New York et mort le 26 juillet 1964 (à 74 ans) à North Hollywood, Californie) est un réalisateur, scénariste et producteur américain.
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William A. Seiter est né en New York. Après avoir étudié à l'Hudson River Military Academy, il débute au cinéma en 1915 en jouant des doublures dans des films des Keystone Studios de Mack Sennett. Il débute comme réalisateur en 1918.Best films
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Kiss Me Again (1931)
, 1h15Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Bernice Claire, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Everett Horton, Frank McHugh, June Collyer, Claude Gillingwater
Rating55%
Peach-o-Reno (1931)
, 1h3Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Zelma O'Neal, Joseph Cawthorn, Cora Witherspoon
Rating63%
Aggie Bruno (Cora Witherspoon) has had enough of her husband, Joe (Joseph Cawthorn), and decides to get a divorce in Reno. She meets with lawyers Wattles and Swift (Wheeler and Woolsey), the latter of the two agreeing to represent Aggie in court. Swift suggests that Aggie be "caught" with another man. Meanwhile, Joe Bruno has also headed to Reno, and is being represented in court by Wattles. Wattles suggests that Joe be "caught" with another woman.
Way Back Home (1931)
, 1h21Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Phillips Lord, Frank Albertson, Bette Davis, Stanley Fields, Frankie Darro, Dorothy Peterson
Rating56%
A decade earlier, Jonesport, Maine preacher Seth Parker and his wife offered shelter to runaway Robbie Turner, who as an infant was abandoned by his sadistic, alcoholic father Rufe. Mary Lucy Duffy, who has been banished from her home by her father for fraternizing with farm hand David Clark, is living with the Parkers as well, and her romance with David attracts the attention of the local gossips. Years earlier, David's mother Rose had run off with a stranger, and when she and her illegitimate infant son returned to Jonesport, they were shunned by the townspeople.
Caught Plastered (1931)
, 1h8Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Lucy Beaumont, Jason Robards, Jason Robards Sr.
Rating61%
Tommy Tanner (Wheeler) and Egbert G. Higginbotham (Woolsey) are two vaudevillians who were kicked out of the last town they performed in. After fleeing to the town of Lockville, the duo befriend elderly widow Mother Talley (Lucy Beaumont). Mother is upset because she is unable to get customers into her drug store. In addition, Mother owes a payment on a bank note to Harry Watters (Jason Robards). Tommy and Egbert decide to turn Mother's drugstore into a money-making venture, even producing their own afternoon radio program right in the store. Harry, who wants to buy the store as part of a bootlegging operation, attempts to sell the duo an alcohol-laced drink, referring to it as "lemon-syrup". The "syrup" gains praise from everybody in town, until the police show up to close down the operation. Tommy and Egbert are suspicious of Harry, and it's up to them to find Harry, clear their name, and save Mother's store.
Too Many Cooks (1931)
, 1h17Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Roscoe Ates, Robert McWade, Sharon Lynn, Florence Roberts
Rating54%
Engaged couple Albert Bennett (Bert Wheeler) and Alice Cook (Dorothy Lee) plan on leaving the city they live in order to build their dream house in the country. They visit the site of their future home while it is only the foundation.
Big Business Girl (1931)
, 1h15Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Loretta Young, Frank Albertson, Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Frank Darien, Dorothy Christy
Rating59%
Back Pay (1930)
, 1h10Directed by Frank Borzage, William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Seena Owen, Corinne Griffith, Matt Moore, Grant Withers, J. Barney Sherry, Montagu Love
Rating64%
Hester Bevins is tired of life in the small town where she has lived all her life. Although she has a boyfriend, Gerald Smith, who is in love with her, she deserts him and takes a train to New York with a travelling salesman. Bevins meets a rich older man, Charles Wheeler, who provides her with all the luxuries she wants in return for being his girlfriend. One day, Bevins' friends invite her on a motor trip to Hot Springs, which is about thirty miles from her old home town. She decides to visit her old hometown. She encounters Smith, who, thinking that she is still single and has a job in the city, proposes marriage but she refuses saying that it is now impossible. Disillusioned, he signs up for the war and ends up being gassed, suffering lung damage and blindness. When the news reaches Bevins, she immediately goes to see him and attempts to nurse him back to health. When the doctor tells her that Smith has only a short time left to livem Bevins asks Wheeler's permission to marry Smith before he dies. She finds peace and happiness in her brief relationship with Smith. After Smith dies in her arms, Bevins decides to end her sordid relationship with Wheeler and return to working for a living.
The Truth About Youth (1930)
, 1h9Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Loretta Young, Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle, David Manners, J. Farrell MacDonald, Myrtle Stedman
Rating57%
Richard Carewe has raised Richard Dane since childhood. Dane was the son of Carewe's close friend and Carewe promised to care for his son before the friend died. Carewe plans for Dane to marry Phyllis Ericson, the daughter of his housekeeper. Phyllis, however, has no interest in Dane and is in love with Carewe. The film begins on the day of Dane's twenty-first birthday. Carewe is planning a surprise birthday party. Dane never shows up as he has gone to a nightclub to see his new girlfriend, Kara, a notorious gold-digger who sings and dances at the nightclub under the name of The Firefly. Dane returns home in the early hours of the morning drunk and carelessly drops a note from Kara on his way to his room. Early the next day, the housekeeper finds the Dane had dropped and shows it to her daughter, Phyllis, who shows the note to Carewe. As the note is addresses to Richard, which happens to be the forename of both Carewe and Dane, Carewe acts quickly and pretends that the note is his. Phyllis is upset as she is in love with Carewe. When confronted with the note by Carewe, Dane gets upset and plans to elope with Kara. Dane leaves the house and proposes marriage to Kara, who accepts because she thinks he is rich. After the marriage, when Kara discovers he is poor she tells him that she never wants to see him again. Carewe, not knowing that Kara has already married Dane, offers her five thousand dollars to pretend to be his own lover in public. She accepts the money and when Phyllis arrives at the nightclub she almost cries when she witnesses Kara's attentions to Carewe. She leaves leaves the nightclub. Later on, Dane arrives and is heartbroken to find Kara has sold herself a day after their wedding. Dane goes home and confesses everything to Phyllis. She realizing the truth, confesses her love for Carewe when he returns. They embrace as Carewe confesses his love for her also.
The Flirting Widow (1930)
, 1h12Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Dorothy Mackaill, Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Claude Gillingwater, William Austin, Emily Fitzroy
Rating60%
William Faraday refuses to let his youngest daughter, Evelyn, get married before her older sister, Celia, finds a husband. Faraday is afraid that people will call Celia an old maid. Celia, who has no interest in getting married, attempts to fool her father by pretending to be engaged. After a short vacation away from home she makes the announcement to her family and informs everyone that he has gone to Arabia but that they will be married upon his return to England. When her father receives this news, he finally consents to Evelyn's marriage. At Evelyn's insistence, Celia writes a love letter to her fiancé.
Going Wild (1930)
, 1h8Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films
Actors Joe E. Brown, Lawrence Gray, Ona Munson, Walter Pidgeon, Frank McHugh, Johnny Arthur
Rating57%
Rollo Smith (Joe E. Brown) and his friend Jack Lane (Lawrence Gray) are down on their luck and have stowed away on a train, finding a place in the compartment of ace pilot and writer Robert Story (Arthur Hoyt). The conductor (Fred Kelsey) tosses the pair off the train just where the famous writer is supposed to arrive, with Rollo being mistaken for Story.
Strictly Modern (1930)
, 1h3Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Actors Dorothy Mackaill, Sidney Blackmer, Julanne Johnston, Warner Richmond
Rating56%
Kate is a novelist who writes "modern" novels about sex, romance and relationships. She thinks that since she is a strictly modern women she knows everything about men. When she falls in love, she plans to act exactly like the heroines in her novels and expects her future boyfriend to do likewise. Kate attempts to apply the methods that uses in his books to her own life and the lives of those around her. As the film begins, we find out that Mackaill's cousin, Aimee (Johnston) is about to be married to Heath Desmond (Blackmer).
Sunny (1930)
, 1h18Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney, O. P. Heggie, Barbara Bedford, Clyde Wilfred Cook
Rating53%
Marylin Miller plays the part of an American circus performer, doing her act in a British circus, who is engaged to a man she does not love. A former boyfriend, played by Lawrence Gray, stops by to see her before taking boat back to the United States. Miller realizing that she loves Gray, decides to run away. She embarks on the same boat that Lawrence takes. Her father, who realizes what his daughter has done, reaches the boat just as it is about to leave and manages to board it. While on board, Gray becomes engaged to be married to a wealthy socialite (Barbara Bedford). Miller learns that she will not be allowed to disembark in the United States without a passport. In order to land, Miller marries an American friend, intending to divorce him as soon as she is safely inside the United States. After arrive in the states, Miller tells Gray about her love for him. Bedford overhears them and tells Gray that she will announce their engagement at a party that very night. Disappointed, Miller decides to return to England, but Gray proposes to her just as she is about to leave.
Footlights and Fools (1929)
, 1h18Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Colleen Moore, Raymond Hackett, Fredric March, Virginia Lee Corbin, Edward Martindel, Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Rating69%
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
Smiling Irish Eyes (1929)
, 1h30Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Colleen Moore, James Hall, Robert Homans, Claude Gillingwater, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Aggie Herring
Rating45%
Rory O'More leaves his sweetheart Kathleen O'Connor back in the old country while he travels to America to establish himself. He is a musician, and hopes to make it big. Kathleen grows tired of waiting and travels to America, only to find him on stage performing "their" song and kissing another woman. Kathleen returns to Ireland, followed by Rory, who explains everything. In the end they wed and return to America.
Synthetic Sin (1929)
, 1h12Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Colleen Moore, Antonio Moreno, Edythe Chapman, Kathryn McGuire, Gertrude Astor, Montagu Love
Rating69%
Famed playwright Donald Anthony returns home to Magnolia Gap, Virginia, and proposes to Betty Fairfax. She accepts and he offers her the lead part in his next play, but the play is a disaster. Donald tells her that she is unsuited for the role, that it requires someone with more life experience. Rather than return home defeated, Betty stays in New York, in a bad neighborhood where local gangsters adopt her as their own. When Donald comes to visit her, they eject him. There is a gunfight, and in the resulting confusion Donald sweeps in and rescues Betty. After the excitement, Betty gives up her dreams of the stage and devotes herself to Donald.