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George Seaton
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George Seaton's father was a rather famous chef. He followed Oscar at the Waldorf many years before George was born. At the time Seaton was born, in South Bend, Indiana, his father was running the Oliver Hotel. His mother's father was ... a very famous critic in Stockholm. When he was about two years old they moved to Detroit. This would explain why he didn't remember Sister Evangelista.
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Hailing from South Bend, Indiana, "George Seaton" resettled in Detroit after college to work as a radio and stock-company actor. Seaton was the second person to portray the Lone Ranger on Detroit station WXYZ; he claimed to have come up with the Ranger's immortal cry "Hi-yo, Silver" because he couldn't whistle for his horse, as the script required. Signed as a contract writer at MGM in 1933, Seaton's first major break came when he contributed comedy material, minus screen credit, for the "Marx Brothers"' "A Night at the Opera" (1935). "Groucho Marx" liked Seaton's work so much that he invited him to co-write, with credit, the screenplay for "A Day at the Races" (1937), which proved a major success for all concerned. Seaton went on to work at Columbia in the early 1940s, then set up shop at 20th Century-Fox in 1943, where he would remain for the next decade.
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In retrospect, George Seaton's adaptation of The Country Girl seems like the movie that was made to prove that both Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly could act. The tale of an alcoholic actor and singer (Crosby) and his long-suffering wife (Kelly) whose marriage is put to the test when he gets a second chance at stardom, Clifford Odets' drama is chock full of twists and turns designed to give actors a grueling workout, with its hidden secrets, tortured love story, and frank depiction of the horrors of alcohol abuse. Crosby and Kelly sank their teeth into the meaty roles with gusto (it helped that a rock-solid William Holden was there for each to spark off of), and both were showered with accolades that remained high points of their careers. Crosby was lauded with kudos for turning his charming persona inside-out, but it was Kelly who stole the show, possibly because at the time she was one of the hardest working women in show business. In 1954, the actress appeared in four films, including the Alfred Hitchcock classics Dial M for Murder and Rear Window, and finally ascended to leading-lady status after her stellar supporting turns in High Noon and Mogambo. In typical Hollywood fashion, though, it was only when Kelly shrouded her breathtaking beauty in plain clothes and a dowdy hairdo that she was taken seriously and awarded a Best Actress Oscar--one of the most highly contested ever, as she beat out comeback star Judy Garland's ferocious performance in A Star Is Born.
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When George was about two years old they moved to Detroit. This would explain his reference to not remembering Sister Evangelista. He was too young at the time to remember her visits to their South Bend home. In Detroit, his father ran a bakery and a commissary. He ... started something there that became a big thing, the idea that drugstores that used to sell only Cokes and ice cream could become lunch counters. His father had quite a few drugstores where he brought gallons of soup in the mornings and cut meat so that they could make their own sandwiches.
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George Lewis Seaton, Alexandria’s first African-American state legislator, acquired the large frame house at 404 South Royal Street in 1866 and was living there when he died in 1881, at age 59. A master carpenter, grocer and real estate developer, Seaton was one of the wealthiest African Americans in Virginia. Born free, he became a broker of the uneasy peace between the races following the Civil War.
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The original "Miracle On 34th Street" (1947), directed by George Seaton and written by Valentine Davies, always turns up like a good penny during the last two months of the year. It was remade as a 1973 TV-film, not as good as the original. The 1947 film is a charming fantasy about Kriss Kringle (Edmund Gwenn), a seasonal Santa at Macy's who claims to be the real thing and proves it to everyone's delight -- especially as he sets Macy's and Gimbel's vying in being nice to customers. The fine cast ... includes Maureen O'Hara, a 9-year old Natalie Wood (who does not believe in Santa) and that scene-stealing, lovable plebeian Thelma Ritter in her movie debut.The two New York stores allowed location shooting and the use of their name. 20th Century Fox head Darryl Zanuck, certain that the film would flop, released it in midsummer. It proved to be the studio's most profitable film of the year and has been shown like clockwork ever since.
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