James Seymour


Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

The Melody Man (1930)
Dialogue Director
The Broadway Hoofer (1929)
Dialogue Director
Wall Street (1929)
Dialogue Director
Mexicali Rose (1929)
Dialogue Director
The College Coquette (1929)
Dialogue Director
Broadway Scandals (1929)
Dialogue Director
Syncopation (1929)
Dialogue Director
Mother's Boy (1929)
Dial Supervisor
Lucky In Love (1929)
Dial Supervisor
Broadway Scandals (1929)
Stage Director
Acquitted (1929)
Dialogue Director

Writer (Feature Film)

Meet Me at Dawn (1947)
Screenwriter
The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)
Screenwriter
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Contr to Screenplay const
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
Idea by
Top of the Town (1937)
Contract Writer
King of Burlesque (1936)
Adaptation
Dressed to Thrill (1935)
Contr to trmt
Orchids to You (1935)
Contr on Special seq
42nd Street (1933)
Screenwriter
Central Airport (1933)
Screenwriter
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Screenwriter
Lawyer Man (1933)
Screenwriter
Footlight Parade (1933)
Screenwriter
Jimmy and Sally (1933)
Story
Carnival Boat (1932)
Screenwriter
Symphony of Six Million (1932)
Additional Dialogue
Swing High (1930)
Adaptation
What a Widow (1930)
Adaptation
Swing High (1930)
Dial
What a Widow (1930)
Dial
Swing High (1930)
Story

Producer (Feature Film)

The Right to Live (1935)
Supervisor
The Goose and the Gander (1935)
Producer
Harold Teen (1934)
Supervisor
Circus Clown (1934)
Supervisor
Big Hearted Herbert (1934)
Supervisor
A Lost Lady (1934)
Supervisor
The House on 56th Street (1933)
Supervisor

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Lawyer Man (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Charter Member Feeling frisky after an unexpected offer to join a fancy uptown law firm, Lower East Side lawyer Tony (William Powell) is surprised to find the babe he’s ogling is his own savvy secretary Olga (Joan Blondell), their dinner date ensuing, William Dieterle directing, in Warner Bros.’ Lawyer Man, 1932.
Lawyer Man (1932) -- (Movie Clip) He Could Hide Behind A Circular Staircase His career apparently soaring, as a new partner in an uptown firm, lawyer Tony (William Powell) with barkeep Mike (John Sheehan) gets buttonholed by Gilmurry (David Landau), whom he just skewered in court, then gets his head turned by showgirl Jenny (Claire Dodd), Sheila Terry her wing-gal, in Warner Bros.’ Lawyer Man, 1932.
Lawyer Man (1932) -- (Movie Clip) It Takes A Good Man After beating uptown corporate lawyer Bentley (Alan Dinehart) in court, William Powell, a shade less suave than usual as Lower East Side lawyer Tony, is surprised to be invited to visit, and still more to be offered a gig, early in Warner Bros.’ Lawyer Man, 1932, also starring Joan Blondell, from a Max Trell novel.
42nd Street (1933) -- (Movie Ciip) It's The Tight Shoes Guy Kibbee is Dillon the financier, swooning over Broadway diva star Dorothy (Bebe Daniels) at a party in her apartment, Ginger Rogers (as "Anytime Annie") with the best line, in 42nd Street, 1933.
Gold Diggers Of 1933 (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Hate Starving In Bed Broadway in a slump and the girls suffering, Carol (Joan Blondell), Trixie (Aline MacMahon) and Polly (Ruby Keeler) improvising when Fay (Ginger Rogers ) shows up with a glimmer of good news, wisecracking in Warner Bros. style, in the first in the series, Gold Diggers Of 1933, 1933.
Footlight Parade (1933) -- (Movie Clip) These Are Cats Not Elephants! Foreshadowing Andrew Lloyd Webber, dance director Francis (Frank McHugh) gets schooled by producer Chester (James Cagney) on the cat number, office helper Bea (Ruby Keeler) checking in, herself pursued by singer Scotty (Dick Powell), in Warner Bros.' Footlight Parade, 1933.
Footlight Parade (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Only Talking Pictures Will Be Made Chester (James Cagney) and Harry (Gordon Westcott) unimpressed by what they read on a Broadway marquee, until Gould (Guy Kibbee) and Frazer (Arthur Hohl) take them to see John Wayne in Warner Bros. Telegraph Trail, opening Warner Bros. Footlight Parade, 1933.
Footlight Parade (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Dust Off The Straitjacket First scene for supreme Broadway theatrical girl-Friday Nan (Joan Blondell), dealing with everybody including thinker Hobart Cavanaugh, then her producer boss Chester (James Cagney) and office gal Bea (Ruby Keeler), in Warner Bros.' Footlight Parade, 1933.
House On 56th Street, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Older Ones Are Safer Director Robert Florey takes us backstage at the Gotham Theatre, 1905, where Kay Francis is showgirl "Peggy," Sheila Terry advising her about suitors, elder Fiske (John Halliday) and handsome Monte (Gene Raymond), who has an eager pal (Frank McHugh), early in The House On 56th Street, 1933.

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