George Seaton

Seaton, along with fellow writer and friend Robert Pirosh, joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a contract writer in 1933.

Seaton's first major screen credit was the Marx Brothers comedy A Day at the Races (1937). He left MGM in 1937, unhappy at being restricted to comedies.

In November 1950 Seaton and Perlberg signed a multi-million-dollar contract with Paramount for six years. Seaton would write and direct films, and they would also produce films from others.

In 1955 Seaton was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He would serve three terms.

In April 1958 Seaton announced he and Perlberg would produce six more films for Paramount. The first of these were But Not for Me (1959) and The Rat Race (1960), directed by Robert Mulligan.

In May 1965 Seaton announced the end of his partnership with Perlberg. He returned to Broadway to direct Above William. (1965)

Seaton died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California in 1979. He had been suffering from it for two years.