Miriam SeegarFilmography

Born:: September 1, 1909 in Greentown, IN
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Blonde and blue-eyed, Miriam Seegar had appeared in several stage productions in London's West End and even made a couple of British silent films prior to signing with Fox at the dawn of sound. She was properly frightened as Richard Dix's leading lady in the first audible screen version of Seven...Read More

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Out of Singapore

Synopsis: In this sea-going thriller, an unsavory seaman working on a cargo ship bound for Singapore, enlists the aid of another, plots a mutiny; he also poisons the ship's captain. The conspiracy is overheard by the second mate who ends up falling into the ocean. Meanwhile, the captain's naive daughter Read More

1932
The Famous Ferguson Case

Actors: Joan Blondell, Tom Brown, Adrienne Dore, Walter Miller, Leslie Fenton

Synopsis: Inspired in part by the sensational Snyder-Gray murder case (which was also the source of The Postman Always Rings Twice), The Famous Ferguson Case casts an unflattering light on the journalist "feeding frenzy" attending such crimes. A wealthy banker named Ferguson is found murdered, and his Read More

1932
False Faces

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Peggy Shannon, Lila Lee, Berton Churchill, David Landau

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a sleazy plastic surgeon from Chicago bungles an operation and causes the amputation of his patient's legs. Naturally, she takes the quack to court. Unfortunately she loses the case. The enraged patient then fatally shoots the doctor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1932
Strangers of the Evening

Actors: ZaSu Pitts, Eugene Pallette, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Miriam Seegar

Synopsis: Also known as The Hidden Corpse, Strangers of the Evening is an effective blend of horror and humor. There's dirty work at the city morgue, where the body of Frank Daniels (Lucien Littlefield) suddenly disappears. Later on, at Daniels' funeral, the wrong man is buried. It's all the handiwork of Read More

1932
The Lion and the Lamb

Actors: Walter Byron, Carmel Myers, Raymond Hatton, Montagu Love, Miriam Seegar

Synopsis: Lion and the Lamb takes place in Columbia Pictures' idea of London. Upon returning home after a long absence, globetrotting playboy Dave (Walter Byron) finds that he's inherited an Earldom. Thanks to a case of mistaken identity, however, Dave is intercepted en route to his ancestral estate by a Read More

1931
The Woman Between

Actors: Lili Damita, O.P. Heggie, Lester Vail, Miriam Seegar, Anita Louise

Synopsis: Lily Damita, an actress best known today for her tempestuous marriage to screen idol Errol Flynn, is the Dietrich-like heroine in RKO Radio's The Woman Between. Damita plays a knockout French modiste who marries the much-older widower O.P. Heggie. She immediately incurs the wrath of Heggie's grown Read More

1931
The Dawn Trail

Actors: Erville Alderson, Miriam Seegar, Charles Morton, Edward J. Le Saint

Synopsis: A fine early sound Western, this Buck Jones series entry from his Columbia period told the well-known story of a feud between cattle barons and sheep men. When Mart Denton (Charles Morton), son of a wealthy cattle man, kills a homesteader during a quarrel, Sheriff Larry Williams (Jones) faces a Read More

1931
Movietone Follies of 1930

Actors: El Brendel, Marjorie White, Frank Richardson, Noel Francis, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: In the first years of the talkies, every studio drew up plans to release annual "all-star" musical spectacles, but only Fox Pictures truly stuck to the notion. A follow-up to Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, Movietone Follies of 1930 once again offers a maximum of production numbers and the barest Read More

1930
Such is the Law

Synopsis: A mother attempts to give her troubled daughter some sage advice in order to save her marriage in this domestic drama that was originally filmed as a silent and later had dialogue added to it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1930
What a Man!

Actors: Reginald Denny, Miriam Seegar, Harvey Clark, Lucille Ward, Carlyle Moore, Jr.

Synopsis: In this romance, the family chauffeur tells no one that he is really a decorated war hero. He does this to stay away from bootleggers and to keep the besotted daughter of his employer away from him. In the end, the hapless driver can no longer resist the charms of the enamored girl and romance Read More

1930
Big Money

Actors: Eddie Quillan, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Dorothy Christy

Synopsis: Breezy comic actor Eddie Quillan starred in several amiable Pathe programmers in 1929, 30' and '31. Big Money finds Quillan cast as a go-getting bank messenger, who falls in with unsuccessful gambler Jimmy Gleason. Entering a high-stakes card game, Quillan bets the bank's money, and is promptly Read More

1930
Clancy in Wall Street

Actors: Lucien Littlefield, Aggie Herring, Eddie Nugent, Miriam Seegar

Synopsis: Clancy (Charles Murray) is a pugnacious Irish-American plumber in partnership with parsimonious Scotsman Andy MacIntosh (Lucien Littlefield). Though tight with a dollar himself, Clancy accidentally begins playing the stock market, and before he knows what's happening he's become a millionaire. His Read More

1930
Fashions in Love

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Fay Compton, John Miljan, Robert Wayne, Joan Standing

Synopsis: This romantic drama marks the first talking movie done by popular silent film star Adolph Menjou who plays a philandering concert pianist. After one concert, he meets a pretty lady and begins planning a weekend rendezvous in a mountain cottage. When his wife learns about it, she too, along with Read More

1929
Seven Keys to Baldpate

Actors: Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1917 and 1925, the evergreen George M. Cohan-Earl Derr Biggers stage mystery Seven Keys to Baldpate was remade as a talkie in late 1929 (and there were still three more remakes to come). Richard Dix stars as novelist William Magee, who's having trouble completing his latest Read More

1929
The Love Doctor

Actors: June Collyer, Richard Dix

Synopsis: The old Winchell Smith-Victor Mapes stage comedy The Boomerang was the source for the Richard Dix vehicle The Love Doctor. Dix plays Dr. Gerald Sumner, an expert on romantic relationships. The story inevitably evolves into a case of "physician heal thyself" when Sumner falls head over heels in Read More

1929