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William A. Seiter

Highest Rated: 100% Sons of the Desert (1933)

Lowest Rated: 57% The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

Birthday: Jun 10, 1890

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Former Keystone Cop who graduated to assistant director and screenwriter before making his directorial debut in 1918. Seiter developed into a proficient and prolific technician in a number of genres and was especially adept at light, breezy fare, such as the wonderful Laurel and Hardy romp, "Sons of the Desert" (1933), the underrated Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicle "Roberta" (1935), and the engaging romantic drama, "This is My Affair" (1937). He also helmed the Marx Brothers escapade, "Room Service" (1938) but, like the anarchic trio, was too constrained by the conventional stage original. Formerly married to actresses Laura La Plante and Marian Nixon.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 86% Sons of the Desert
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100% 70% If I Had a Million
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100% 75% You Were Never Lovelier
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88% 80% The Little Princess
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86% 66% Roberta
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80% 67% Nice Girl?
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64% 56% Room Service
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57% The Beautiful and Damned
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Hired Wife
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Sing and Like It
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William A. Seiter

William A. Seiter THE MOON'S OUR HOME, director William A. Seiter watches Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan playing checkers on set, 1936 BELLE OF THE YUKON, costume designer Don Loper, producer William Goetz, director William A. Seiter, screenwriter James Edward Grant on set, 1944 BROADWAY, director William A. Seiter, (in hat), George Raft, (center), on-set, 1942 THE MAD WHIRL, May McAvoy, screenwriter Lewis Milestone, director William A. Seiter and his wife Laura La Plante on set, 1925 View more photos

Filmography

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Make Haste to Live 1954 Director Champ for a Day 1953 Director The Lady Wants Mink 1953 Director Dear Brat 1951 Director Borderline 11% 1950 Director, Producer Up in Central Park 33% 1948 Director One Touch of Venus 42% 1948 Director, Producer I'll Be Yours 50% 1947 Director Little Giant 1946 Director When Lovers Meet 1946 Director It's a Pleasure 25% 1945 Director That Night With You 1945 Director The Affairs of Susan 1945 Director Belle of the Yukon 17% 1944 Director, Producer Four Jills in a Jeep 50% 1944 Director Destroyer 62% 1943 Director A Lady Takes a Chance 32% 1943 Director The Cowboy and the Girl 1943 Director You Were Never Lovelier 100% 75% 1942 Director Broadway 1942 Director Nice Girl? 80% 67% 1941 Director Appointment for Love 1941 Director Hired Wife 1940 Director, Producer It's a Date 78% 1940 Director Susannah of the Mounties 64% 1939 Director
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