William A. Seiter was an American film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

. He was born in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915

1915 in film

The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.* June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors...

 as a bit player at Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...

's Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company...

, doubling a cowboy. He graduated to director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 in 1918.

At Universal Studios

Universal Studios

Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....

 in the mid-1920s, Seiter was principal director of the popular Reginald Denny

Reginald Denny (actor)

Reginald Denny was an English stage, film, and television actor. He was once an amateur boxing champion of Great Britain.-Acting career:...

 vehicles, most of which co-starred Seiter's then wife Laura La Plante

Laura La Plante

Laura La Plante was an American actress, best-known for her roles in silent films.-Early acting career:...

 (his second wife was actress Marian Nixon

Marian Nixon

-Career:Born Marian Nissinen in Superior, Wisconsin, Nixon began her career as a teen working as a chorus dancer on the vaudeville circuit. She began appearing in bit part in films in 1922 and landed her first substantial role in the 1923 film Cupid's Fireman, opposite Buck Jones. The following...

). This period also included The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. The novel provides a portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Café Society. As with his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters are complex, especially in their...

and The Family Secret

The Family Secret (1924 film)

The Family Secret is a 1924 silent film featuring child star Baby Peggy. It is based on Editha's Burglar, a story by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in 1881 by St. Nicholas Magazine and adapted for the stage by Augustus E...

.

In the early talkie era, Seiter helped nurture the talents of RKO's comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey

Wheeler & Woolsey

Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were a famous American film comedy team of the 1930s....

 in such rollicking features as Caught Plastered

Caught Plastered

Caught Plastered is a musical comedy film, released by RKO Radio Pictures starring the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.-Plot:Tommy Tanner and Egbert G. Higginbotham are two vaudevillians who were kicked out of the last town they performed in. After fleeing to the town of Lockville, the duo befriend...

(1931) and Diplomaniacs (1933). He also directed the Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...

 feature Sons of the Desert

Sons of the Desert

Sons of the Desert is a 1933 American film starring Laurel and Hardy, and directed by William A. Seiter. It was first released in the United States on December 29, 1933 and is regarded as one of Laurel and Hardy's greatest films...

(1933), their only film together. Other films include Sunny

Sunny (1930 film)

Sunny is a 1930 musical comedy film released by Warner Brothers. The movie was based on the Broadway stage hit, Sunny, produced by Charles Dillingham, which played from September 22, 1925 to December 11, 1926. Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by...

, Going Wild

Going Wild

Going Wild is a musical comedy film released by Warner Brothers, starring a cast of musical stars in addition to the three comic stars, Joe E. Brown, Frank McHugh, and Johnny Arthur.-Production:...

, Kiss Me Again

Kiss Me Again (1931 film)

Kiss Me Again is a musical operetta film filmed entirely in Technicolor. It was originally released in the United States as Toast of the Legion late in 1930, but was quickly withdrawn when Warner Bros. realized that the public had grown weary of musicals. The Warner Bros...

, Hot Saturday

Hot Saturday

Hot Saturday is Cary Grant's first movie as leading man. The movie was directed by William A. Seiter and based on a novel written by Harvey Fergusson...

, Way Back Home, Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in this musical production....

, Rafter Romance

Rafter Romance

Rafter Romance is a 1933 RKO romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter. The film, which was based on the novel of the same name by John Wells, stars Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster and features George Sidney, Laura Hope Crews, Guinn Williams and Robert Benchley.-Plot:Mary Carroll is a...

, Roberta

Roberta (1935 film)

Roberta is a 1935 musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was an adaptation of a 1933 Broadway theatre musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller...

, Room Service

Room Service (1938 film)

Room Service is an RKO film comedy starring the Marx Brothers and based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray. It co-stars Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Alexander Asro, and Frank Albertson.-Plot outline:...

, Susannah of the Mounties

Susannah of the Mounties

Susannah of the Mounties is a novel written by Muriel Denison in 1936. In the book Susannah is sent to Regina, Saskatchewan to spend the summer with her uncle who is a Mountie...

, Allegheny Uprising

Allegheny Uprising

Allegheny Uprising is a 1939 film produced by RKO Pictures, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne as pioneers of early American expansion in south central Pennsylvania. Clad in buckskin and a coonskin cap , Wayne plays real-life James Smith, an American coping with British rule in colonial America...

, You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 Hollywood musical comedy film, set in Buenos Aires. It starred Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou and Xavier Cugat, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by William A...

, Up in Central Park

Up in Central Park

Up in Central Park is a Broadway musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Sigmund Romberg...

, One Touch of Venus

One Touch of Venus

One Touch of Venus is a musical with music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash, based on the novella The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, and very loosely spoofing the Pygmalion myth. The show satirizes contemporary American suburban values,...

.

Among the many stars directed by Seiter during his long career were Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple Black , born Shirley Jane Temple, is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia...

, Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...

, Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....

, Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

, Margaret Sullavan

Margaret Sullavan

Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an American stage and film actress. Sullavan started her career on the stage in 1929. In 1933 she caught the attention of movie director John M. Stahl and had her debut on the screen that same year in Only Yesterday...

, Jack Haley

Jack Haley

John Joseph "Jack" Haley was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and Kansas farmworker Hickory in The Wizard of Oz.-Career:...

, Deanna Durbin

Deanna Durbin

Deanna Durbin is a Canadian-born, Southern California-raised retired singer and actress, who appeared in a number of musical films in the 1930s and 1940s singing standards as well as operatic arias....

, Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur...

, John Wayne

John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...

, Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s....

, Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy...

, Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth was an American film actress and dancer who attained fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars...

 and the Marx Brothers

Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures from the early 1900s to around 1950...

.

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

Lou Costello

Louis Francis "Lou" Costello was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott...

 in 1946's Little Giant

Little Giant

Little Giant is a 1946 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello released by Universal Pictures.-Plot:A naive country boy named Benny Miller , from Cucamonga, California, has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship...

-- 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

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and director. These films included The Lady Wants Mink (1953), a gentle satire

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 of the then topical "raise your own coat" craze.

He died in Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...

, of a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

, aged 74.

Filmography

• Make Haste to Live
  Make Haste to Live
  Make Haste to Live is an American suspense film released by Republic Pictures.- Plot :'Chris' Crystal Benson is a single mother living in a small town in New Mexico. One night she feels a man is stalking. She grabs a gun and makes a series of arrangements anticipating his own death...
  
   (1954)
• Champ for a Day (1953)
• The Lady Wants Mink (1953)
• Dear Brat
  Dear Brat
  Dear Brat is a 1951 film directed by William A. Seiter. It stars Mona Freeman and Billy De Wolfe.-Cast:*Mona Freeman as Miriam Wilkins*Billy De Wolfe as Albert*Edward Arnold as Senator Wilkins*Lyle Bettger as Mr. Baxter*Natalie Wood as Pauline...
  
   (1951)
• Borderline
  Borderline (1950 film)
  Borderline is a 1950 American film directed by William A. Seiter.-Plot:Pete Ritchie runs a narcotics smuggling operation to the USA from Mexico, which the Los Angeles Police Department and the US federal government have unsuccessfully tried to stop...
  
   (1950)
• Gems of Song (1949)
• One Touch of Venus
  One Touch of Venus (film)
  One Touch of Venus is a film directed by William A. Seiter, starring Robert Walker and Ava Gardner, released by Universal Studios, and based on the Broadway musical of the same name, book written by S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash, with music composed by Kurt Weill...
  
   (1948)
• Up in Central Park (1948)
• I'll Be Yours
  I'll Be Yours
  I'll Be Yours is a 1947 musical comedy film starring Deanna Durbin and directed by William A. Seiter. It was adapted by Felix Jackson from the screenplay for the 1935 non-musical film The Good Fairy by Preston Sturges, which was based on the play A jó tündér by Ferenc Molnár as translated and...
  
   (1947)
• Lover Come Back (1946)
• Little Giant
  Little Giant
  Little Giant is a 1946 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello released by Universal Pictures.-Plot:A naive country boy named Benny Miller , from Cucamonga, California, has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship...
  
   (1946)
• That Night with You (1945)
• The Affairs of Susan
  The Affairs of Susan
  The Affairs of Susan is a 1945 comedy film starring Joan Fontaine, Walter Abel, George Brent, Dennis O'Keefe and Don DeFore. The plot concerns Susan , who is about to be married. Complications set in when her fiance gives a party to celebrate, and he talks to three former beaus of Susan, each of...
  
   (1945)
• It's a Pleasure (1945)
• Belle of the Yukon
  Belle of the Yukon
  Belle of the Yukon is a 1944 film directed by William A. Seiter. It stars Randolph Scott and Gypsy Rose Lee. It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1946.-Cast:*Randolph Scott as Honest John Calhoun aka Gentleman Jack*Gypsy Rose Lee as Belle De Valle...
  
   (1944)
• Four Jills in a Jeep
  Four Jills in a Jeep
  Four Jills in a Jeep is a 1944 film starring Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair as themselves, re-enacting their USO tour of Europe and North Africa during World War II.-Cast:*Kay Francis as Herself*Carole Landis as Herself...
  
   (1944)
• A Lady Takes a Chance
  A Lady Takes a Chance
  A Lady Takes a Chance is a 1943 romantic comedy film starring Jean Arthur and John Wayne.-Cast:* Jean Arthur - Molly J. Truesdale* John Wayne - Duke Hudkins* Charles Winninger - Waco* Phil Silvers - Smiley Lambert...
  
   (1943)
• Destroyer
  Destroyer (1943 film)
  Destroyer is a 1943 war film starring Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford as U.S. Navy sailors in World War II.-Plot:Steve "Boley" Boleslavski helps build the destroyer John Paul Jones, the namesake of the ship he served on in World War I...
  
   (1943)
• You Were Never Lovelier
  You Were Never Lovelier
  You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 Hollywood musical comedy film, set in Buenos Aires. It starred Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou and Xavier Cugat, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by William A...
  
   (1942)
• Broadway
  Broadway (1942 film)
  Broadway is a 1942 film about Broadway theatre with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, Broderick Crawford, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Gwynne, and S.Z. Sakall. Raft plays himself, recalling an incident early in his pre-movie career as a dancer. The movie was directed by William A....
  
   (1942)
• Appointment for Love (1941)
• Nice Girl? (1941)
• Hired Wife (1940)
• It's a Date
  It's a Date
  It's a Date is a 1940 Universal musical film directed by William A. Seiter. The film was remade in 1950 as Nancy Goes to Rio.-Plot:The movie begins with Georgia Drake performing on the stage singing, "Gypsy Lullaby" while her daughter, Pamela , watches with her boyfriend Freddie Miller...
  
   (1940)
• Allegheny Uprising
  Allegheny Uprising
  Allegheny Uprising is a 1939 film produced by RKO Pictures, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne as pioneers of early American expansion in south central Pennsylvania. Clad in buckskin and a coonskin cap , Wayne plays real-life James Smith, an American coping with British rule in colonial America...
  
   (1939)
• Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
• The Little Princess (1939)
• Thanks for Everything (1938)
• Room Service
  Room Service (1938 film)
  Room Service is an RKO film comedy starring the Marx Brothers and based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray. It co-stars Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Alexander Asro, and Frank Albertson.-Plot outline:...
  
   (1938)
• Three Blind Mice (1938)
• Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
• Life Begins in College (1937)
• The Life of the Party (1937)
• This Is My Affair
  This Is My Affair
  This Is My Affair is a 1937 crime film starring Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen, and Brian Donlevy.A U.S. Navy officer goes undercover to nab a gang of bank robbers and falls in love with the stepsister of one of the ringleaders.-Cast:...
  
   (1937)
• Stowaway
  Stowaway (1936 film)
  Stowaway is a 1936 American musical film directed by William A. Seiter. The screenplay by William M. Conselman, Nat Perrin, and Arthur Sheekman is based on a story by Samuel Engel. The film is about a young orphan called 'Ching Ching' who stows away on a ship and is adopted by Tommy Randall and...
  
   (1936)
• Dimples
  Dimples (film)
  Dimples is a 1936 American musical film directed by William A. Seiter. The screenplay was written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. The film is about a young mid-nineteenth century street entertainer who is separated from her pickpocket grandfather when given a home by a wealthy New York City...
  
   (1936)
• The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)
• The Moon's Our Home
  The Moon's Our Home
  -Plot summary:A comedy about marriage and everything relating to it. A New York novelist Henry Fonda meets up with an actress, Margaret Sullavan, and the two date and later marry, though neither knows of the other's fame...
  
   (1936)
• If You Could Only Cook
  If You Could Only Cook
  If You Could Only Cook is a 1935 screwball comedy of mistaken identity starring Herbert Marshall as a frustrated automobile executive and Jean Arthur as a young woman who talks him into posing as her husband so they can land jobs as a butler and a cook....
  
   (1935)
• In Person (1935)
• Orchids to You (1935)
• The Daring Young Man (1935)
• Roberta
  Roberta (1935 film)
  Roberta is a 1935 musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was an adaptation of a 1933 Broadway theatre musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller...
  
   (1935)
• The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
• We're Rich Again
  We're Rich Again
  We're Rich Again is a 1934 comedy film starring Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke and Marian Nixon. A formerly wealthy family tries to stave off bankruptcy until one of them can marry a rich man...
  
   (1934)
• Love Birds (1934)
• Sing and Like It (1934)
• Sons of the Desert (1933)
• Chance at Heaven (1933)
• Rafter Romance
  Rafter Romance
  Rafter Romance is a 1933 RKO romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter. The film, which was based on the novel of the same name by John Wells, stars Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster and features George Sidney, Laura Hope Crews, Guinn Williams and Robert Benchley.-Plot:Mary Carroll is a...
  
   (1933)
• Professional Sweetheart (1933)
• Diplomaniacs (1933)
• Hello, Everybody! (1933)
• If I Had a Million
  If I Had A Million
  If I Had a Million is a Paramount Studios anthology film. There were seven directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, and H. Bruce Humberstone...
  
   (1932)
• Hot Saturday
  Hot Saturday
  Hot Saturday is Cary Grant's first movie as leading man. The movie was directed by William A. Seiter and based on a novel written by Harvey Fergusson...
  
   (1932)
• Is My Face Red? (1932)
• Young Bride (1932)
• Girl Crazy
  Girl Crazy (1932 film)
  Girl Crazy is a 1932 musical film adaptation of the stage play of the same name. The film was very unlike the stage play except for its score. It was tailored for the comic talents of Wheeler & Woolsey, a popular comedy team...
  
   (1932)
• Peach-O-Reno (1931)
• Way Back Home (1931)
• Caught Plastered
  Caught Plastered
  Caught Plastered is a musical comedy film, released by RKO Radio Pictures starring the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.-Plot:Tommy Tanner and Egbert G. Higginbotham are two vaudevillians who were kicked out of the last town they performed in. After fleeing to the town of Lockville, the duo befriend...
  
   (1931)
• Too Many Cooks (1931)
• Big Business Girl (1931)

• Kiss Me Again
  Kiss Me Again (1931 film)
  Kiss Me Again is a musical operetta film filmed entirely in Technicolor. It was originally released in the United States as Toast of the Legion late in 1930, but was quickly withdrawn when Warner Bros. realized that the public had grown weary of musicals. The Warner Bros...
  
   (1931)
• L'aviateur (1931)
• Full of Notions (1931)
• Going Wild
  Going Wild
  Going Wild is a musical comedy film released by Warner Brothers, starring a cast of musical stars in addition to the three comic stars, Joe E. Brown, Frank McHugh, and Johnny Arthur.-Production:...
  
   (1930)
• Sunny
  Sunny (1930 film)
  Sunny is a 1930 musical comedy film released by Warner Brothers. The movie was based on the Broadway stage hit, Sunny, produced by Charles Dillingham, which played from September 22, 1925 to December 11, 1926. Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by...
  
   (1930)
• The Truth About Youth
  The Truth About Youth
  The Truth About Youth is a 1930 early talking drama from Warner Brothers First National Pictures starring Loretta Young, Conway Tearle and an early role for Myrna Loy. This movie still survives today. It broadcasts on TCM....
  
   (1930)
• Back Pay (1930)
• The Flirting Widow
  The Flirting Widow
  The Flirting Widow is a 1930 American comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Dorothy Mackaill, Basil Rathbone and Leila Hyams. It was based on a story by A.E.W...
  
   (1930)
• Strictly Modern (1930)
• The Love Racket (1929)
• Footlights and Fools
  Footlights and Fools
  Footlights and Fools is a sound film billed by Warner Brothers as an all-talking musical film, released in Vitaphone with Technicolor sequences.-Production background:...
  
   (1929)
• Smiling Irish Eyes
  Smiling Irish Eyes
  Smiling Irish Eyes , known as Hymyilevät silmät in Finland, is a sound American musical film with Technicolor sequences.The film is now considered a lost film, however the Vitaphone discs still exist.-Plot:...
  
   (1929)
• Prisoners (1929)
• Why Be Good?
  Why Be Good?
  Why Be Good? is a silent comedy film from First National Pictures starring Colleen Moore and Neil Hamilton. This movie had a Vitaphone soundtrack with music and sound effects. Jean Harlow had a small role in this movie.-Plot:...
  
   (1929)
• Synthetic Sin
  Synthetic Sin
  Synthetic Sin is a 1929 film directed by William A. Seiter, based on a play of the same name.-Story:Famed playwright Donald Anthony returns home to Magnolia Gap, Virginia, and proposes to Betty Fairfax. She accepts and he offers he the lead part in his next play, but the play is a disaster...
  
   (1929)
• Synthetic Wife (1929)
• Outcast (1928)
• Waterfront (1928)
• Happiness Ahead (1928)
• Good Morning, Judge (1928)
• Thanks for the Buggy Ride (1928)
• The Small Bachelor (1927)
• Out All Night (1927)
• The Cheerful Fraud (1926)
• Take It from Me (1926)
• Rolling Home (1926)
• Skinner's Dress Suit
  Skinner's Dress Suit
  Skinner's Dress Suit is a 1926 silent film comedy produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starring Reginald Denny. William Seiter was the director of the film which was based on the novel of the name by Henry Irving Dodge...
  
   (1926)
• What Happened to Jones (1926)
• Where Was I? (1925)
• The Teaser
  The Teaser (1925 film)
  The Teaser is a 1925 black-and-white silent film comedy/romance/drama film written by Lewis Milestone, Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Jack Wagner based upon the play of the same name by Adelaide Matthews and Martha M. Stanley. The film was directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, and stars...
  
   (1925)
• Dangerous Innocence
  Dangerous Innocence (film)
  Dangerous Innocence is a 1925 black-and-white silent film comedy/romance/drama film written by Lewis Milestone and James O. Spearing based upon the novel Ann's an Idiot by Pamela Wynne. Directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, the film stars Laura La Plante and Eugene O'Brien...
  
   (1925)
• The Mad Whirl
  The Mad Whirl
  The Mad Whirl is a 1925 jazz age black-and-white silent film drama film about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s. Written by Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Lewis Milestone, and directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, the film stars May McAvoy and Jack...
  
   (1925)
• The Fast Worker (1924)
• Helen's Babies (1924)
• The Family Secret
  The Family Secret (1924 film)
  The Family Secret is a 1924 silent film featuring child star Baby Peggy. It is based on Editha's Burglar, a story by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in 1881 by St. Nicholas Magazine and adapted for the stage by Augustus E...
  
   (1924)
• Listen Lester (1924)
• His Forgotten Wife (1924)
• The White Sin (1924)
• Daddies
  Daddies (1924 film)
  Daddies is a 1924 silent film romantic comedy produced and distributed by Warner Brothers and directed by William A. Seiter. The film stars Mae Marsh and Harry Myers and survives today in 16mm format.-Cast:*Mae Marsh - Ruth Atkins...
  
   (1924)
• Little Church Around the Corner (1923)
• Bell Boy 13 (1923)
• When Love Comes (1922)
• The Beautiful and Damned
  The Beautiful and Damned (film)
  The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 silent film directed by William A. Seiter and released by Warner Brothers in their early years. This film, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel published in the same year, starred Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost. It is 70 minutes long.There are no known...
  
   (1922)
• Up and at 'Em (1922)
• The Understudy (1922)
• Gay and Devilish (1922)
• Boy Crazy (1922)
• Eden and Return (1921)
• The Foolish Age (1921)
• Passing Through (1921)
• Hearts and Masks (1921)
• The Kentucky Colonel (1920)
• A Sure Cure (1919)
• The Little Dears (1919)
• Moving Day (1919)
• Why Divorce? (1919)
• Honeymooning (1919)
• Close to Nature (1919)
• After the Bawl (1919)
• Their Day of Rest (1919)
• In a Pinch (1919)
• Gold-Bricking Cupid (1915)
• The Honeymoon Roll 1915)

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