The Jim Henson Company (also known at various times as Muppets, Inc., Henson Associates, Inc., and Jim Henson Productions, Inc.) is an American entertainment company, a leading producer of children's and family entertainment (despite some of the company's works containing mature content), and best known as the creators of the renowned Muppets characters.
 Founded in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson and performing partner and wife Jane Henson, the company is independently owned and operated by the children of its founders.
James Maury "Jim" Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker who achieved international fame as the creator of the Muppets.
 Born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in Leland, Mississippi, and Hyattsville, Maryland, Henson began developing puppets while attending high school.
 While he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, he created "Sam and Friends", a five-minute sketch-comedy puppet show that appeared on television.
 After graduating from the University of Maryland with a degree in home economics, he produced coffee advertisements and developed some experimental films.
 Henson founded Muppets Inc. in 1958 (which would later become the Jim Henson Company).
Don Sahlin (June 19, 1928 in Stratford, Connecticut – February 19, 1978 in New York City) was a Muppet designer and builder who worked for Jim Henson from 1962 to 1977.
 His first creation for Jim Henson was Rowlf the Dog, which he built in 1962 for a series of Purina Dog Chow commercials.
 Don would go on to design and build most of the Muppet characters, including Bert and Ernie, Grover, and Cookie Monster among others.
 His character designs are often recognizable for their spheroid heads partially bisected to create large mouths.
 Although always based on sketches by Jim Henson, the Muppet founder regularly stated that it was Don who should be credited with creating the actual Muppet "look", and Henson later had a bench in London dedicated to his memory.
 The series finale of "Fraggle Rock" is also dedicated to him.
 After all the regular credits have been shown, a special credit appears which reads "This show is for Don Sahlin".
We Stick Together Through Thick and Thin (German: Wir halten fest und treu zusammen) is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Herbert Nossen and starring Sig Arno, Kurt Gerron and Ernst Karchow.
 It was one of two films starring Arno and Gerron in their characters of 'Beef' and 'Steak' in an effort to create a German equivalent to Laurel and Hardy.
The Blue Angel (German: "Der blaue Engel" ) is a 1930 German tragicomedic film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich and Kurt Gerron.
 Written by Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller and Robert Liebmann – with uncredited contributions by Sternberg – it is based on Heinrich Mann's 1905 novel "Professor Unrat" ("Professor Garbage") and set in Weimar Germany.
 "The Blue Angel" presents the tragic transformation of a respectable professor to a cabaret clown and his descent into madness.
 The film is the first feature-length German full-talkie and brought Dietrich international fame.
 In addition, it introduced her signature song, Friedrich Hollaender and Robert Liebmann's "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)".
 It is considered to be a classic of German cinema.
Heather Beth Henson (born December 19, 1970, in New York City) is a contemporary puppet artist.
 She serves on The Jim Henson Company, The Jim Henson Legacy, and the Jim Henson Foundation Boards of Directors.
 She is also a Trustee of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut.
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (German: "Die weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü" ) is a 1929 German silent mountain film co-directed by Arnold Fanck and Georg Wilhelm Pabst and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Ernst Petersen, and World War I flying ace Ernst Udet.
 Written by Arnold Fanck and Ladislaus Vajda, the film is about a man who loses his wife in an avalanche while climbing the Piz Palü mountain, and spends the next few years searching the mountain alone for her body.
 Four years later he meets a young couple who agree to accompany him on his next climb.
 "The White Hell of Pitz Palu" was filmed on location in the Bernina Range in Graubünden, Switzerland.
 The 1929 theatrical release starred Kurt Gerron, who was Jewish, as a night club guest.
 The film was edited to remove scenes featuring Gerron, and it was rereleased as a 90-minute German-language sound film in 1935.
 It was remade in 1950.
The Jim Henson Foundation was founded by puppeteer and Muppet creator Jim Henson to promote and develop puppetry in the United States.
 Jim Henson's daughter Cheryl Henson currently serves as the president for the Foundation.
Jim Henson Pictures is an American film studio, owned by The Jim Henson Company and operated by Brian and Lisa Henson.
 It was founded on July 21, 1995, as a joint venture between Jim Henson Productions and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
 However, the company's films suffered from poor box office performances, which led to Sony breaking from the joint venture after the release of "The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland"; further films were released under the name of The Jim Henson Company, although they were credited under their former name on "Good Boy!
" in 2003.
Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director.

Question: Who died first, Jim Henson or Kurt Gerron?
Answer: Kurt Gerron