Susan Seidelman (born December 11, 1952) is an American film director, producer and writer.
 She came to prominence in the 1980s with "Smithereens", the first American independent feature to be screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
 Her next feature "Desperately Seeking Susan" co-starred Madonna in her first film. "
She-Devil" co-starred Roseanne Barr in her first feature-film role and Meryl Streep in her first starring comedic film role.
 Seidelman's subsequent films mix comedy with drama, blending genres and pop-cultural references with a focus on women protagonists, particularly outsiders.
 She also works in television and directed the pilot episode of "Sex and the City".
Smithereens is a 1982 film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Susan Berman, Brad Rinn, and punk rock icon Richard Hell.
 The film follows a narcissistic young woman from New Jersey who comes to New York City to join the punk subculture, only to find that it's gravitated towards Los Angeles; in order to pay her way across country, she engages in a number of parasitic relationships, shifting her allegiances to new "friends" in an ongoing effort to ultimately endear herself to someone who will finance her desired lifestyle.
American entertainer Madonna has worked in twenty-six feature films (twenty-one as an actress), nine short films, three theatrical plays, ten television episodes, and sixteen commercials.
 In 1979, she made her acting debut in the low-budget feature, "A Certain Sacrifice".
 Its commercial release in 1985 coincided with the success of her second studio album, "Like a Virgin".
 That same year, she made a cameo appearance as a club singer in the film "Vision Quest"; she also garnered commercial and critical success for the title role in Susan Seidelman's "Desperately Seeking Susan".
 Madonna followed it with a leading role in the adventure drama, "Shanghai Surprise" (1986), with her then-husband actor Sean Penn.
 The film was panned by critics, and Madonna received her first Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.
 Her next films such as "Who's That Girl" (1987) and "Bloodhounds of Broadway" (1989) were critical and commercial failures.
 In 1986, she made her theatrical debut in David Rabe's "Goose and Tom-Tom" and her first commercial for Mitsubishi in Japan.
 She starred in the 1989 commercial for Pepsi-Cola alongside her song "Like a Prayer".
 Due to the controversy surrounding the song's music video, the commercial was revoked and her contract with Pepsi-Cola was cancelled.
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie "Rebel Without a Cause."
She-Devil is a 1989 American black comedy film directed by Susan Seidelman and written by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns.
 It stars Roseanne Barr in her film debut, and Ed Begley, Jr. and Meryl Streep.
 A loose adaptation of the 1983 novel "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" by British writer Fay Weldon, "She-Devil" tells the story of Ruth Patchett, a dumpy, overweight housewife who exacts devilish revenge on her philandering husband after he leaves her and their children for glamorous, best-selling romance novelist Mary Fisher.
Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna.
 Set in New York, the plot involves the interaction between two women – a bored housewife and a bohemian drifter – linked by various announcements in the personal column of a newspaper.
Musical Chairs is a dance film starring Leah Pipes, E. J. Bonilla, Auti Angel, Laverne Cox, and Priscilla Lopez, and directed by Susan Seidelman.
 It is a romance involving a couple who participates in wheelchair ballroom dancing.
 In development for eight years before it was finally made, the film played at several festivals starting in 2011, including the Woodstock Film Festival.
 It was released on March 23, 2012.
 It played only a week in New York City, where it was entirely filmed, but as of March 30, 2012, opened in other locations in platform release.
 It premiered on cable TV (HBO) in December 2013.
Boynton Beach Club is a 2005 film directed by Susan Seidelman, a romantic comedy produced by her and her mother Florence.
 Based on experiences of Florence and her widowed friend David Cramer at an adult enclave in Boynton Beach (a city in Palm Beach County, Florida), the film was scripted by Susan Seidelman and Coral Gables, Florida writer Shelly Gitlow.
The Hot Flashes is a film by Susan Seidelman, director of "Desperately Seeking Susan".
 It stars Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Wanda Sykes, Virginia Madsen, Camryn Manheim, Eric Roberts and Mark Povinelli.
 This film was also an attempt to raise awareness for breast cancer as well as defy stereotypes of age.
 It was released on July 12, 2013.
Gaudi Afternoon is a 2001 comedy film based on Barbara Wilson's detective novel and directed by Susan Seidelman.
 The film focuses on Cassandra, an expatriate American book translator (Judy Davis) living in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, who is hired by a mysterious woman, Frankie (Marcia Gay Harden), to locate her missing husband so he can sign some important papers.
 Nothing Frankie says is true: the husband turns out to be a woman, the issue isn't legal papers but a child's custody, and even Frankie's most obvious identity, in red cape and red pumps, is a false front.
 But Cassandra keeps at it, at first to earn her promised fee, and then to help Frankie, then Frankie's ex, then the child.
 Along the way, this solitary and somewhat disconnected and bewildered writer frees herself to finish a novel and re-establish a broken relationship with her own past.
 The film’s cast includes Lili Taylor, Juliette Lewis, Christopher Bowen and Courtney Jines.

Question: Who was born earlier, Susan Seidelman or Nicholas Ray?
Answer: Nicholas Ray