It's No Laughing Matter
It's No Laughing Matter is an extant 1915 American comedy silent film written and directed by Lois Weber.
The film stars Macklyn Arbuckle, Cora Drew, Myrtle Stedman, Charles Marriott, Adele Farrington, and Frank Elliott.
The film was released on January 14, 1915, by Paramount Pictures.
Lois Weber
Lois Weber( June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director.
She is identified in some historical references as" the most important female director the American film industry has known", and among" the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films".
Film historian Anthony Slide has also asserted," Along with D.W. Griffith, Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies".
Weber produced a body of work which has been compared to Griffith's in both quantity and quality and brought to the screen her concerns for humanity and social justice in an estimated 200 to 400 films, of which as few as twenty have been preserved.
She has been credited by IMDb with directing 135 films, writing 114, and acting in 100.
Weber was" one of the first directors to come to the attention of the censors in Hollywood's early years".
Weber has been credited with pioneering the use of the split screen technique to show simultaneous action in her 1913 film" Suspense".
In collaboration with her first husband, Phillips Smalley, in 1913 Weber was" one of the first directors to experiment with sound", making the first sound films in the United States.
She was also the first American woman to direct a full- length feature film when she and Smalley directed" The Merchant of Venice" in 1914, and in 1917 the first American woman director to own her own film studio.
During the war years, Weber" achieved tremendous success by combining a canny commercial sense with a rare vision of cinema as a moral tool".
At her zenith," few men, before or since, have retained such absolute control over the films they have directedand certainly no women directors have achieved the all- embracing, powerful status once held by Lois Weber".
By 1920, Weber was considered the" premier woman director of the screen and author and producer of the biggest money making features in the history of the film business".
Among Weber's notable films are: the controversial" Hypocrites", which featured the first full- frontal female nude scene, in 1915; the 1916 film" Where Are My Children?", which discussed abortion and birth control and was added to the National Film Registry in 1993; her adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's" Tarzan of the Apes" novel for the very first" Tarzan of the Apes" film, in 1918; and what is often considered her masterpiece," The Blot", in 1921.
Weber is credited with discovering, mentoring, or making stars of several women actors, including Mary MacLaren, Mildred Harris, Claire Windsor, Esther Ralston, Billie Dove, Ella Hall, Cleo Ridgely, and Anita Stewart, and with discovering and inspiring screenwriter Frances Marion.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Weber was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960.
Abhishek Saxena
Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu.
The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role.
Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film.
This film was screened in cinemas in 2014.
Elliot Silverstein
Elliot Silverstein( born August 3, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American director, who is best known for being the director of the movie" Cat Ballou"( 1965).
Speed Vogel
Irving "Speed" Vogel (March 3, 1918 – April 14, 2008) was an American sculptor, painter, and co-author, along with Joseph Heller, of the best-selling memoir, "No Laughing Matter".
He was born in New York City and was the fourth of five children of his father Julius who was a builder.
He was educated at West Virginia University and attended pre-med classes at New York University but with the beginning of World War II started working as a shipbuilder.
Later he started his own textile business "Ria Herlinger Fabrics" together with his first wife.
Later he became a furniture producer and left this business at a relatively early age when he retired.
After which he dedicated himself to painting and sculpting.
A textile businessman and associate of Gwathmey Siegel, he was also member of the "Gourmet Club," an assemblage of writers, artists and showbusiness people (which included Mel Brooks and Mario Puzo, among others), who gathered weekly from the 1960s to the 1980s to eat and talk at Chinese restaurants in New York City.
In the 1960s Vogel met Joseph Heller, best known for his novel "Catch-22" and they became good friends.
In 1982 Heller was diagnosed with "Guillain-Barre syndrome" which provokes paralysis.
Vogel moved in to Heller' house to help him to recover.
They alternatively wrote the chapters in their best-seller "No Laughing Matter" which was published in 1986.
The book was on the "New York Times best-seller list for four weeks".
He has five children of his three marriages.
Vogel died of natural causes at his home in Sag Harbor, New York.
He was 90.
G. Marthandan
G. Marthandan is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema.
To Dorothy a Son
To Dorothy a Son is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Shelley Winters, John Gregson and Peggy Cummins.
Known in the U.S. as Cash on Delivery, it is based on a play by Roger MacDougall.
Muriel Box
Violette, Lady Gardiner( 22 September 1905 – 18 May 1991), known professionally as Muriel Box, was an English screenwriter and director.
Drew Esocoff
Drew Esocoff( born c. 1957) is an American television sports director, who as of 2006 has been the director of NBC Sunday Night Football.
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".

Question: Which film has the director who died later, It'S No Laughing Matter or To Dorothy A Son?