William A. Seiter Trailers
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William A. Seiter (June 10, 1890 - July 26, 1964) was an American film director. He was born in New York City. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy. He graduated to director in 1918.
At Universal Studios in the mid-1920s, Seiter was principal director of the popular Reginald Denny vehicles, most of which co-starred Seiter's then wife Laura La Plante (his second wife was actress Marian Nixon). This period also included The Beautiful and Damned and The Family Secret.
In the early talkie era, Seiter helped nurture the talents of RKO's comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey in such rollicking features as Caught Plastered (1931) and Diplomaniacs (1933). He also directed the Laurel and Hardy feature Sons of the Desert (1933), their only film together. Other films include Sunny, Going Wild, Kiss Me Again, Hot Saturday, Way Back Home, Girl Crazy, Rafter Romance, Roberta, Room Service, Susannah of the Mounties, Allegheny Uprising, You Were Never Lovelier, Up in Central Park, and One Touch of Venus.
Among the many stars directed by Seiter during his long career were Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan, Jack Haley, Deanna Durbin, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball, Rita Hayworth and the Marx Brothers.
While many of his films were minor gems, Seiter was capable of turning out bad movies once in a while. For example, if he ran into friction from his star—as was the case with Lou Costello in 1946's Little Giant -- Seiter would get even by adhering religiously to the script, refusing to add any nuance or creativity to the project (this pettiness may have been the reason that one prominent actress of the 1930s referred to Seiter as the most unimaginative director she'd ever worked with). On his final four films, before he retired in 1954, Seiter functioned as both producer and director. These films included The Lady Wants Mink (1953), a gentle satire of the then topical "raise your own coat" craze.
He died in Beverly Hills, California, of a heart attack, aged 74.
Most Popular William A. Seiter Trailers
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01 October 1937
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.
12 April 1925
Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with him.
21 December 1930
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop.
02 February 1947
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
11 November 1928
Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A.
24 August 1925
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
09 November 1930
A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.
01 June 1930
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
06 September 1925
Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a village hotel, where she meets James McDonald, a breezy, handsome salesman.
24 June 1928
Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and starring Colleen Moore and then husband and wife Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman.
28 September 1945
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago.
08 May 1942
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
21 February 1941
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane.
13 July 1934
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
08 May 1936
An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.
13 November 1931
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
18 May 1929
Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief.
07 March 1935
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately.
30 May 1951
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president.
04 May 1934
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert.
28 February 1929
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
19 August 1943
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage.
28 October 1932
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
17 June 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit.
17 February 1933
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together.
09 June 1933
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths.
03 November 1930
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
17 March 1944
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
29 March 1953
A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.
22 March 1940
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part.
27 October 1933
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
28 April 1933
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers.
28 May 1937
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
30 January 1931
Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on the voyage and fights for her love against José in an airplane.
25 October 1924
Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and their daughter.
08 April 1932
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
19 January 1923
Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde.
29 December 1933
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
27 December 1926
A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.
13 September 1940
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal.
09 March 1923
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue.
21 September 1938
Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.
04 September 1927
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.
08 February 1926
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
17 July 1935
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke).
28 September 1924
The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of.
03 March 1945
A star hockey player with the Wildcats is barred from Hockey for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get a job with Buzz Fletcher's ice-show as the novelty act.
01 March 1950
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him.
10 November 1939
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface.
02 March 1925
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
07 June 1926
Nat Alden, a promoter, has had bad luck on his deal and is broke. He meets an old army pal who is now a chauffeur of the businessman who threw the luckless Nat out of his office.
21 September 1934
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters.
18 November 1932
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
30 December 1935
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
21 August 1931
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
12 June 1931
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
29 April 1928
Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a haven for reformed criminals.
10 February 1913
Pierre and Baptiste, French-Canadian half-breed trappers, are enamored of Mary, the factor's daughter.
14 May 1922
Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan).
22 February 1946
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott.
