Twentieth Century (film)
Twentieth Century is a 1934 American pre-Code screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, and Edgar Kennedy.
Much of the film is set on the" 20th Century Limited" train as it travels from Chicago to New York City.
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur adapted their Broadway play of the same name – itself based on the unproduced play" Napoleon of Broadway" by Charles Bruce Millholland – with uncredited contributions from Gene Fowler and Preston Sturges.
Along with Frank Capra's" It Happened One Night", also released in 1934( which coincidentally has the same music over the opening titles)," Twentieth Century" is considered to be a prototype for the screwball comedy.
" Howard Hawks' rapid- fire romantic comedy established the essential ingredients of the" screwball" – a dizzy dame, a charming, but befuddled, hero, dazzling dialogue, and a dash of slapstick."
Its success propelled Lombard into the front ranks of film comediennes.
The film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2011.
Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks( May 30, 1896 December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.
Critic Leonard Maltin called him" the greatest American director who is not a household name."
A versatile film director, Hawks explored many genres such as comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and westerns.
His most popular films include" Scarface"( 1932)," Bringing Up Baby"( 1938)," Only Angels Have Wings"( 1939)," His Girl Friday"( 1940)," To Have and Have Not"( 1944)," The Big Sleep"( 1946)," Red River"( 1948)," The Thing from Another World"( 1951)," Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"( 1953), and" Rio Bravo"( 1959).
His frequent portrayals of strong, tough- talking female characters came to define the" Hawksian woman".
In 1942, Hawks was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for" Sergeant York".
In 1974, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as" a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema."
His work has influenced various popular and respected directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Jean- Luc Godard, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino.
Edward Yates
Edward J. Yates( September 16, 1918 – June 2, 2006) was an American television director who was the director of the ABC television program" American Bandstand" from 1952 until 1969.
Hassan Zee
Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.
Ford Beebe
Ford Beebe( November 26, 1888 – November 26, 1978) was a screenwriter and director.
He entered the film business as a writer around 1916 and over the next 60 years wrote and/ or directed almost 200 films.
He specialized in B-movies – mostly Westerns – and action serials, working on the" Buck Rogers" and" Flash Gordon" serials for Universal Pictures.
Clem Harvey
Clem Harvey was a twentieth- century film actor.
He played one of the Eleven in the original version of" Ocean's 11", Louis Jackson a Mormon cowboy from Salt Lake City.
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
Night Monster
Night Monster is a 1942 American black- and- white horror film featuring Bela Lugosi and produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Company.
The movie uses an original story and screenplay by Clarence Upson Young and was produced and directed by Ford Beebe.
For box office value, star billing was given to Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, but the lead roles were played by Ralph Morgan, Irene Hervey and Don Porter, with Atwill in a character role as a pompous doctor who becomes a victim to the title character, and Lugosi in a small part as a butler.
The film is in many respects a remake of" Doctor X", with virtually the same denouement.
Both films also feature Atwill as a doctor.
Rumbi Katedza
Rumbi Katedza is a Zimbabwean Film Producer and Director who was born on 17 January 1974.
Jim Harrison (artist and writer)
Jim Harrison( January 12, 1936 – June 18, 2016) was an American artist and writer whose work is known for chronicling earlier twentieth century rural life.
Harrison's paintings are featured in personal and corporate art collections across the United States, and he had successful one- man shows at the Hammer Galleries in New York City and the Conacher Gallery in San Francisco.

Question: Which film has the director who was born earlier, Twentieth Century (Film) or Night Monster?
Answer: Night Monster