George Seaton - biography

“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”

“I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.”

“There’s a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.”

George Seaton directed the following films:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
Apartment for Peggy (1948)
Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
The Big Lift (1950)
For Heaven’s Sake (1950)
Anything Can Happen (1952)
Little Boy Lost (1953)
The Country Girl (1954)
The Proud and Profane (1956)
Teacher’s Pet (1958)
The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
The Hook (1963)
36 Hours (1965)
What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)
Airport (1970)
Showdown (1973)


George Seaton contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
A Day at the Races (1937)
Moon Over Miami (1941)
That Night in Rio (1941)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
Apartment for Peggy (1948)
Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
The Big Lift (1950)
For Heaven’s Sake (1950)
Anything Can Happen (1952)
Little Boy Lost (1953)
The Country Girl (1954)
The Proud and Profane (1956)
Teacher’s Pet (1958)
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
36 Hours (1965)
What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)