From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia George Seaton April 17 1911 July 28 1979 was an American screenwriter playwright film director and producer and theatre director Born George Stenius in South Bend Indiana Seaton moved to Detroit after graduating from college to work as an actor on radio station WXYZ John L Barrett played The Lone Ranger on test broadcasts of the series in early January 1933 but when the program became part of the regular schedule Seaton was cast in the title role In later years he claimed to have devised the cry Hiyo Silver because he couldnt whistle for his horse as the script required Seaton joined MetroGoldwynMayer as a contract writer in 1933 His first major screen credit was the Marx Brothers comedy A Day at the Races in 1937 In the early 1940s he joined 20th Century Fox where he remained for the rest of the decade writing scripts for Moon Over Miami Coney Island Charleys Aunt The Song of Bernadette and others before making his directorial debut with Diamond Horseshoe in 1945 From this point on he was credited as both screenwriter and director for most of his films including The Shocking Miss Pilgrim Miracle on 34th Street Apartment for Peggy Chicken Every Sunday The Big Lift For Heavens Sake Little Boy Lost The Country Girl and The Proud and Profane But Not Goodbye Seatons 1944 Broadway debut as a playwright closed after only 23 performances although it later was adapted for the 1946 film The Cockeyed Miracle by Karen DeWolf In 1967 he returned to Broadway to direct the Norman Krasna play Love in E Flat which was a critical and commercial flop The musical Heres Love adapted from his screenplay for Miracle on 34th Street by Meredith Willson proved to be more successful Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay twice for Miracle on 34th Street which also earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and The Country Girl and was nominated for Oscars three additional times He received The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1961 Seaton died of cancer in Beverly Hills California Description above from the Wikipedia article George Seaton licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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