William A. Seiter Movies

List of the best William A. Seiter movies: Sons of the Desert(1933), Synthetic Sin(1929), The Little Princess(1939), You Were Never Lovelier(1942), The Mad Whirl(1925), Stowaway(1936), Roberta(1935), If You Could Only Cook(1935), What Happened to Jones(1926), Little Giant(1946), This Is My Affair(1937), Dimples(1936) ... ...

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Sons of the Desert

When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.

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Synthetic Sin

Famed playwright Donald's latest work flopped because fiancée Betty is too unsophisticated to play the lead. It's time for the flower of Magnolia Gap, Virginia, to get to Gotham for some ... See full summary »

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The Little Princess

A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, when her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant.

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You Were Never Lovelier

In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.

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The Mad Whirl

A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.

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Stowaway

A young girl lost in Shanghai is taken in by an American playboy and his girlfriend.

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Roberta

An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.

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If You Could Only Cook

An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.

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What Happened to Jones

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.

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Little Giant

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's ... See full summary »

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This Is My Affair

Navy Lt. Richard Perry becomes an undercover man out to discover the leaders of a group of well connected men who pull off bank robberies during the McKinley administration (early 20th ... See full summary »

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Dimples

Dimples Appleby lives with the pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is performed.

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Room Service

A penniless theatrical producer must outwit the hotel efficiency expert trying to evict him from his room, while securing a backer for his new play.

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Sing and Like It

A gangster becomes enamored with a dowdy, amateur off-key singer and tries to force a producer to put her in his Broadway production.

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Caught Plastered

Wheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling.

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Hot Saturday

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.

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Susannah of the Mounties

Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is saved from ... See full summary »

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A Lady Takes a Chance

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her simpy city suitors.

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Sally, Irene and Mary

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

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The Daring Young Man

Two reporters plan to marry but the bride is left waiting at the altar because her groom has gone undercover to expose gang activity.

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Diplomaniacs

Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the ... See full summary »

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The Richest Girl in the World

An heiress switches places with her secretary in order to find a man who will love her for who she is and not for her money.

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Four Jills in a Jeep

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

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Three Blind Mice

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her... See full summary »

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Allegheny Uprising

In 1759, in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Valley, local settlers and Indian fighters try to persuade the British authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding Indians.

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Destroyer

A new World War 2 destroyer fails its sea trials so it is assigned to mail runs, but the crew ends up having to engage Japanese planes and a submarine anyway.

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Way Back Home

Seth Parker takes in Robbie Turner and protects him from his cruel father Rube. When the father disappears, Seth intends to raise Robbie as his own son. The vindictive father attacks Mary ... See full summary »

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Girl Crazy

New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his ... See full summary »

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Going Wild

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. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what ... See full summary »

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Make Haste to Live

After serving 18 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, a mobster is paroled and returns to a New Mexico town to exact his revenge on the woman responsible for his conviction.

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Dear Brat

Woman gets involved with a crook trying to reform.

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Too Many Cooks

Two young lovers are building their house, but their relatives don't stop interfering, finally cutting off the young man's income and alienating them, but he is impressing everybody by ... See full summary »

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The Truth About Youth

Richard Carewe has raised his deceased friend's son from childhood with the help of his housekeeper and her beautiful daughter, Phyllis. He arranges a marriage between Phyllis and the boy, ... See full summary »

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Life Begins in College

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.

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It's a Pleasure

A figure skater's (Sonja Henie) boozing husband (Michael O'Shea) joins an ice show after being barred from hockey for life.

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One Touch of Venus

A window dresser's (Robert Walker) kiss brings a statue (Ava Gardner) of the Roman goddess of love to life.

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Is My Face Red?

A muckraking journalist's belief that nothing and no one is sacred takes a toll on his personal and professional lives.

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It's a Date

A Broadway star (Kay Francis) and her daughter (Deanna Durbin) become rivals for a role and a millionaire (Walter Pidgeon) in Hawaii.

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The Family Secret

A modest man unknowingly has a daughter with a woman from an affluent family. Through a series of coincidences he is accidentally reunited with his daughter during a burglary, forcing the family to confront its secrets.

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I'll Be Yours

Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) falls for a lawyer (Tom Drake) in New York but strings along a meat tycoon.

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Nice Girl?

A high-school principal's teenage daughter (Deanna Durbin) acts out her crush on an older man (Franchot Tone) in New York.

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