Movies by William A. Seiter

It's a Pleasure

It's a Pleasure

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.

Footlights and Fools

Footlights and Fools

Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.

Young Bride

Young Bride

A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.

Dear Brat

Dear Brat

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. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.

Rafter Romance

Rafter Romance

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

Why Be Good?

Why Be Good?

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

The Affairs of Susan

The Affairs of Susan

Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.

Lover Come Back

Lover Come Back

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.

The Family Secret

The Family Secret

The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely ac...

Professional Sweetheart

Professional Sweetheart

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.

Passing Through

Passing Through

Passing Through is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film, directed by William A. Seiter and written by Agnes Christine Johnston, and Joseph F. Poland.

Champ for a Day

Champ for a Day

An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and D...

Too Many Cooks

Too Many Cooks

A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

Happiness Ahead

Happiness Ahead

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.

The Teaser

The Teaser

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. Ann is adopted by an aristocratic aunt, who disapproves of James's manners and breaks up Ann's relationship with him. Ann soon revenges herself on her aunt by placing both her aunt and herself in compromising positions.

Camouflage

Camouflage

A detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.

Back Pay

Back Pay

Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.

The Lady Wants Mink

The Lady Wants Mink

A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.

Out All Night

Out All Night

A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.

The Foolish Age

The Foolish Age

After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.