Born in
Texas, Seastrom got into acting after winning a beauty competition. Her family later relocated to
Chicago. Her film career began in 1923 with the role of Eleanor Harmon in
The Call of the Canyon, directed by
Victor Fleming. Later she acted under the direction of
Cecil B. Demille. She signed a five-year contract with
First National Pictures in September 1925. Seastrom was called the "Candy Kid" at First National due to her
taffy colored hair. signed with
Hamilton Comedies She appeared in
The Perfect Flapper with
Colleen Moore and
Classified with
Corinne Griffith. Seastrom barely avoided a potentially disfiguring accident during the filming of
We Moderns (1925). A shower of sparks from a short-circuited light fell upon her hair and shoulders at the United Studios. Seastrom escaped injury when assistant director James Dunne grabbed a tablecloth from a prop table and covered the actress's head. Electricians shut off the power to a light which hung from the
fly system above the scene. Seastrom made a full recovery from the burns she sustained. She returned to complete the film. In 1926, Seastrom missed six months from acting while she had to rest in a sanitarium and "build up a physique weakened by work and worry". ==Death==