Hawthorne of the U.S.A. is a 1919 American silent comedy adventure film directed by James Cruze and starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee.
 The film is based on the play of the same name by James B. Fagan which ran on Broadway in 1912 with Douglas Fairbanks in the title role.
 The scenario for the film was written by Walter Woods.
 The film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky, and distributed by Famous Players under the Paramount-Artcraft Picture banner.
The Old Homestead is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by James Cruze and written by Julien Josephson, Perley Poore Sheehan, and Frank E. Woods based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
 The film stars Theodore Roberts, George Fawcett, T. Roy Barnes, Fritzi Ridgeway, Harrison Ford, James Mason, and Kathleen O'Connor.
 The film was released on October 8, 1922, by Paramount Pictures.
 A print of the film is in the Gosfilmofond film archive.
Laila Marrakchi (born 1975 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan film maker most famous for the controversial film "Marock".
 The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Waking Up the Town is a 1925 American comedy silent film directed by James Cruze and written by Frank Condon and James Cruze.
 The film stars Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer and Herbert Prior.
 The film was released on April 14, 1925, by United Artists.
She Got What She Wanted is an American Pre-Code early talking film comedy-drama directed by James Cruze and starring his actress wife Betty Compson.
 The film was made for Tiffany Pictures with Cruze and Compson having recently completed "The Great Gabbo" (1929).
Marock is the 2005 Moroccan film by director Laïla Marrakchi.
 The film was 2006's most successful film in Morocco, scoring more than 3 million dirhams at the Moroccan box-office, according to TelQuel.
 It was very controversial as it deals with a Muslim/Jewish romantic relationship between two young people in Casablanca, Morocco; Rita and Youri.
If I Had a Million is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film.
 There were seven directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, and H. Bruce Humberstone.
 Lubitsch, Cruze, Seiter, and Humberstone were each responsible for a single vignette, Roberts and McLeod directed two each, and Taurog was in charge of the prologue and epilogue.
 The screenplays were scripted by many different writers, with Joseph L. Mankiewicz making a large contribution.
 "If I Had a Million" is based on a novel by Robert Hardy Andrews.
James Cruze (March 27, 1884 near Ogden, Utah – August 3, 1942 in Hollywood, California) was a silent film actor and film director.
Rock the Casbah is a 2013 French-Moroccan drama film written and directed by Laïla Marrakchi.
 It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company that existed from 1927 to 1933.
 Among their feature films was "The Great Gabbo" (1929) starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze for James Cruze Productions, Inc.
 One of the last films distributed by the company was "A Study in Scarlet" (1933) starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes.

Question: Are both James Cruze and Laïla Marrakchi film directors ?
Answer: yes