Word: seaton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost certainly he is, so far as the box-office is concerned. Author-Director George Seaton has laced his sure-fire sentimentality with equally sure-fire wit and some cynical knowledge about how men of business and law might talk, look and act under these extravagant circumstances. The movie handles all its whimsy deftly and is consistently a smooth, agile...
...Goodbye (by George Seaton; produced by John Golden) tries to perk up a tale of mousy living people by introducing some lively dead ones. The spirits are a just-dead, good-natured New England paterfamilias (Harry Carey) and his long-dead, thick-brogued, high cockalorum of a father (J. Pat O'Malley). They scuttle, garrulous and unobserved, about the parlor watching the effect of death on the household, bemoaning their earthly shortcomings, trying by spectral ruses to straighten out the mess in which the dead man left his affairs...
...wife of Captain Robert Thompson, who commands the [Alaska] Scouts (TIME, Aug. 9), and the picture, which you identify as him, is actually Sergeant Hiram Walker. This [mistake] has appeared in three magazines now. . . . Also, your picture of Larry ("Diamond Jim") Beloff, half-breed, is William ("Diamond Jim") Seaton. William Seaton is no more half-breed than you are and was sort of bothered about...
...TIME'S apologies to wrongly identified Alaska Scouts Thompson and Seaton, a pencil and notebook to the misinforming photographer...