The Thirteenth Chair (1929 film)
The Thirteenth Chair is a 1929 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Tod Browning.
The picture is based on a 1916 play of the same name by Bayard Veiller.
It stars Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams and Margaret Wycherly.
The supporting cast features Bela Lugosi, whom Browning would direct as" Dracula" two years later.
The film was one of many released in both a sound film and a silent film version.
TCM aired the sound version on August 22, 2019.
An earlier version of the film, starring Creighton Hale, was made in 1919 by ACME/ Pathe Exchange, directed by Leonce Perret.
In 1937, the film was again remade by MGM, entitled" The Thirteenth Chair", starring Elissa Landi and Dame May Whitty.
Une chambre en ville
Une chambre en ville( also known as A Room in Town) is a 1982 French film directed by Jacques Demy, with music by Michel Colombier, and starring Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, and Michel Piccoli.
It is set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in 1955 Nantes.
Like Demy's most famous film," The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", it is an operetta-musical in which every line of dialogue is sung.
But unlike" Cherbourg," it is closer to tragedy, with a darker, more explicitly political tone.
The film won the Prix Méliès, and was nominated for nine César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Production Design and Best Sound.
Christine Gouze-Rénal
Christine Gouze- Rénal( 30 December 1914 − 25 October 2002) was a French film and television producer.
A graduate in literature and art history and former Résistance member, she became in 1956 France's first female film producer with" The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful", starring Brigitte Bardot.
She produced a total of about 15 movies, the most celebrated being probably Jacques Demy's" Une chambre en ville"( 1983).
From the 1970s onwards, she was also active as a television producer, with adaptations of works by Colette, Maupassant, Balzac and Buzzati.
In 1985, she was awarded an honorary César for lifetime achievement.
Gouze- Rénal was the wife of actor Roger Hanin and the elder sister of Danielle Mitterrand, wife of President François Mitterrand.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy( 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter.
He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean- Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
Demy's films are celebrated for their sumptuous visual style.
Demy's style drew upon such diverse sources as classic Hollywood musicals, the documentary realism of his New Wave colleagues, fairy- tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera.
His films contain overlapping continuity( i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores( typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenaged love, labor rights, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality.
He is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s:" The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"( 1964) and" The Young Girls of Rochefort"( 1967).
The Thirteenth Chair (1919 film)
The Thirteenth Chair is a 1919 American silent mystery film directed by Léonce Perret and starring Yvonne Delva, Creighton Hale and Marie Shotwell.
It was based on a play of the same name by Bayard Veiller.
Subsequent film adaptations were made in 1929 as" The Thirteenth Chair" and 1937 again under the same title.
J'accuse! (1938 film)
J'accuse! is a 1938 French war film directed by Abel Gance and starring Victor Francen.
It is a remake of the 1919 film of the same name, which was also directed by Gance.
Bruce Gordon (actor/director)
Bruce Gordon was an actor who appeared in and directed the 1919 film" The First Men in the Moon".
He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Grey Car
The Grey Car is a 1919 film directed by Enrique Rosas which is the number 98 in 100 Mexican best movies.
Léonce Perret
Léonce Joseph Perret (14 March 1880 – 12 August 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer.
He also worked as a stage actor and director.
Often described as avant-garde for his unorthodox directing methods, Léonce Perret introduced innovative camera, lighting and film scoring techniques to French cinema.
Léonce Perret began his career as a relatively undistinguished stage actor.
He was recruited to the film industry by the Gaumont Film Company.
His numerous short films gained significant accolade in French cinematography.
Until his emigration to the United States in 1917, he was a fixture of the Gaumont Film Company.
On American soil, he produced several popular films, the most notable being "Lest We ForgetN'oublions jamais") in 1918.
After returning to France, he directed the successful "Koenigsmark" in 1923.
His film "Madame Sans-Gêne" (1925), starring Gloria Swanson, was the first joint Franco-American film production.
In addition, Léonce Perret collaborated with many of the French and American idols of his generation such as Abel Gance, Gloria Swanson, Gaby Morlay, René Cresté, Arletty, Suzanne Grandais, Mae Murray, and Huguette Duflos.

Question: Do both directors of films Une Chambre En Ville and The Thirteenth Chair (1919 Film) share the same nationality?