George Seaton

Director

About

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Birth Place

South Bend, Indiana, USA

Born

April 17, 1911

Died

July 28, 1979

Cause of Death

Cancer

Biography

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Theatrical producer and actor who joined the MGM writing staff in 1933 and began directing his own films in the mid-1940s. Seaton won Best Screenplay Oscars for "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947) and "The Country Girl" (1955) and is also known for the taut spy thriller, "The Counterfeit Traitor" (1962), and for 1969's opening installment of the "Airport" movies....

Filmography

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Showdown (1973)

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)

36 Hours (1965)

The Hook (1963)

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

Photos & Videos

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36 Hours (1964) -- (Movie Clip) London, May 31, 1944

Shocking Miss Pilgrim, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Changing My Tune

Biography

Theatrical producer and actor who joined the MGM writing staff in 1933 and began directing his own films in the mid-1940s. Seaton won Best Screenplay Oscars for "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947) and "The Country Girl" (1955) and is also known for the taut spy thriller, "The Counterfeit Traitor" (1962), and for 1969's opening installment of the "Airport" movies.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Showdown (1973)

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)

36 Hours (1965)

The Hook (1963)

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

The Pleasure of His Company (1961)

Teacher's Pet (1958)

The Proud and Profane (1956)

The Country Girl (1955)

Little Boy Lost (1953)

Anything Can Happen (1952)

For Heaven's Sake (1950)

The Big Lift (1950)

Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

Apartment for Peggy (1948)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)

Director of retakes and addl scenes

Junior Miss (1945)

Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (1945)

Writer (Feature Film)

Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Miracle on 34th Street (1973)

From Screenplay

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)

36 Hours (1965)

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

The Proud and Profane (1956)

Wrt for the Screenplay by

The Country Girl (1955)

Written for Screen by

Little Boy Lost (1953)

Written for Screen by

Anything Can Happen (1952)

Written for Screen by

The Big Lift (1950)

For Heaven's Sake (1950)

Written for Screen by

Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

Written for Screen by

Apartment for Peggy (1948)

Written for Screen by

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

Written for Screen by

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Wrt for the Screenplay by

The Song of Bernadette (1945)

Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (1945)

Written for Screen by

Junior Miss (1945)

The Eve of St. Mark (1944)

Coney Island (1943)

Original Screenplay

The Meanest Man in the World (1943)

The Magnificent Dope (1942)

Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

Additional Dialogue

This Thing Called Love (1941)

Charley's Aunt (1941)

That Night in Rio (1941)

Bedtime Story (1941)

Moon Over Miami (1941)

The Doctor Takes A Wife (1940)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Contract Writer

A Day at the Races (1937)

A Day at the Races (1937)

The Winning Ticket (1935)

Student Tour (1934)

Producer (Feature Film)

Showdown (1973)

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)

Twilight of Honor (1963)

The Rat Race (1960)

But Not for Me (1959)

The Tin Star (1957)

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955)

Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)

Somebody Loves Me (1952)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Teacher's Pet (1958)

The Proud and Profane (1956)

Life Events

1933

Joined MGM writing staff

1945

Directorial debut "Diamond Horseshoe"

Photo Collections

36 Hours - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are some photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of 36 Hours (1965), starring James Garner, Rod Taylor, and Eva Marie Saint.

Videos

36 Hours (1964) -- (Movie Clip) London, May 31, 1944 Opening, James Garner as American Pike, with Alan Napier as Col. MacLean and Russell Thorson as Gen. Allison, discussing the upcoming Normandy invasion and ways to find out what the Germans know, in 36 Hours, 1964, co-starring Rod Taylor and Eva Marie Saint.

Shocking Miss Pilgrim, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Changing My Tune Brunette and without visible legs throughout this feature, Betty Grable as fictional Cynthia Pilgrim, edgy professional typist, pleased at having found lodging with fellow “social outcasts” in 1874 Boston, offers her first solo from the eleven (!) George and Ira Gershwin originals composed for The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, 1947.

That Night In Rio (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Quite Yourself Now? Brazilians Penna and Salles (S.Z. Sakall, Curt Bois) can't let Baroness Cecilia (Alice Faye) tell American Larry (Don Ameche) that she knows they've hired him to impersonate her husband, their boss, the less charming Baron Manuel, for business reasons, in That Night In Rio, 1941.

Twilight Of Honor (1963) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope He Croaks Just appointed to defend accused killer Ben Brown (Nick Adams), lawyer David (Richard Chamberlain) is introduced by mistake by the jailer to Mrs. Brown (Joey Heatherton, age 19, in her first movie role), who displays little loyalty in the first instance of director Boris Sagal’s flashback technique, in MGM’s Twilight Of Honor, 1963.

Twilight Of Honor (1963) -- (Movie Clip) I Get Somebody Plastered Maybe not too convincing, the MGM lot as a small New Mexico city, where widowed lawyer David (Richard Chamberlain) has been appointed to defend a drifter accused of killing a cop, visiting his mentor (Claude Rains as Harper) and his daughter (Joan Blackman), in Twilight Of Honor, 1963, co-starring Academy Award nominated Nick Adams.

Twilight Of Honor (1963) -- (Movie Clip) What Sort Of Dance Was It? In court now, Nick Adams (as Ben Brown) on trial for the murder of a popular local cop, who had befriended him and his young wife (Joey Heatherton), their encounter recalled in testimony by Arch Johnson as barkeeper MacWade, James Gregory the prosecutor, top-billed Richard Chamberlain for the defense, in MGM’s Twilight Of Honor, 1963.

Apartment For Peggy (1948) -- (Movie Clip) I Play Mental Leapfrog Professor Barnes (Edmund Gwenn), whom we know is happily planning to commit suicide, meets bubbly young Peggy (Jeanne Crain, her first scene), whose husband is at school on the G-I Bill, in Apartment For Peggy, 1948, also starring William Holden, from George Seaton and William Perlberg.

Apartment For Peggy (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Tinker To Evers to Chance Professor Barnes (Edmund Gwenn) who, as far as we know, is still secretly planning to take his own life, is welcomed to his attic, where grateful G-I Bill student Jason (William Holden) and wife Peggy (Jeanne Crain) have just moved in, in Apartment For Peggy, 1948.

36 Hours (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Don't You Know Me? At a German espionage site made to look like an American military hospital six years later, German psychologist Gerber (Rod Taylor) and nurse Anna (Eva Marie Saint) observe as American Pike (James Garner), kidnapped on the eve of D-Day, is awakened, in 36 Hours, 1964.

36 Hours (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Body Departed Lisbon Rapid plot development, as we?ve just seen James Garner as American Major Pike, in Lisbon on a mission, carrying details of the D-Day invasion, drugged by unknown villains, then transported in a coffin, evidently to Germany, where Rod Taylor speaks English, in 36 Hours, 1964.

Song Of Bernadette, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) If You Go Early Little dialogue in director Henry King's opening, Jennifer Jones (as "Bernadette") makes her official movie debut asleep, mother and father (Anne Revere, Roman Bohnen) fighting poverty in 19th century France, in The Song Of Bernadette, 1945.

Song Of Bernadette, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) This Girl Is Not Deserving Not bright Bernadette (Jennifer Jones) at school in Lourdes, scolded by her teacher (Gladys Cooper), defended somewhat by her sister (Ermadean Walters), all of them visited by Dean Peymarale (Charles Bickford), early in The Song Of Bernadette, 1945.

Bridges At Toko-Ri, The - (Re-Issue Trailer) Two jet pilots forge a lasting friendship while fighting the Korean War in The Bridges At Toko-Ri (1954).

36 Hours - (Original Trailer) James Garner thinks World War II is over but it's all a charade concocted by the Nazis in 36 Hours (1965).

Tin Star, The - (Original Trailer) An experienced bounty hunter (Henry Fonda) helps a young sheriff (Anthony Perkins) learn the meaning of his badge in Anthony Mann's The Tin Star (1957).

Rat Race, The - (Original Trailer) A musician (Tony Curtis) newly arrived in New York takes in a taxi dancer (Debbie Reynolds) in the drama The Rat Race (1960).

Teacher's Pet - (Original Trailer) A tough city editor (Clark Gable) assumes a fake identity to study journalism with a lady professor (Doris Day) who's criticized his work in Teacher's Pet (1958).

Hook, The - (Original Trailer) Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier in The Hook (1963) starring Kirk Douglas.

Country Girl, The - (Re-Issue Trailer) Grace Kelly won as Best Actress for her portrayal of The Country Girl (1954) who fights her love for another man while nursing her alcoholic husband.

Day at the Races, A - (Original Trailer) The Marx Brothers try to save a pretty girl's sanitarium in A Day at the Races (1937).

For Heaven's Sake - (Original Trailer) An angel's earthly mission takes a wrong turn when he falls in love with mortal life in For Heaven's Sake (1950).

Song Of Bernadette, The - (Re-issue trailer) Jennifer Jones won a Best Actress Oscar for her first starring role in The Song Of Bernadette (1943), playing a French girl who has a vision of the Virgin Mary.

Miracle on 34th Street - (Original Trailer) The Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947) was marketed with this odd trailer that copies a scene from Citizen Kane!

Twilight of Honor - (Original Trailer) A struggling lawyer (Richard Chamberlain) takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him.

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