Norman Lee
Norman Lee( 10 October 1898 – 2 June 1964) was a British screenwriter and film director.
Jack Yellen
Jack Selig Yellen( Jacek Jeleń; July 6, 1892 – April 17, 1991) was an American lyricist and screenwriter.
He is best remembered for writing the lyrics to the songs" Happy Days Are Here Again", which was used by Franklin Roosevelt as the theme song for his successful 1932 presidential campaign, and" Ai n't She Sweet", a Tin Pan Alley standard.
Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg( born Jonas Sternberg, 29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian- American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios.
He is best known for his film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s, including the highly regarded Paramount/ UFA production," The Blue Angel"( 1930).
Sternberg's finest works are noteworthy for their striking pictorial compositions, dense décor, chiaroscuro illumination and relentless camera motion, endowing the scenes with emotional intensity.
He is also credited with initiating the gangster film genre with his silent era movie" Underworld"( 1927).
Sternberg's themes typically offer the spectacle of an individual's desperate struggle to maintain their personal integrity as they sacrifice themselves for lust or love.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for" Morocco"( 1930) and" Shanghai Express"( 1932).
Happy Days Are Here Again (film)
Happy Days
Are Here Again is a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Norman Lee and starring Renée Houston, Billie Houston and Shirley Houston.
It s plot concerns a pair of sisters who have ambitions to take to the stage when they realise their parents' act is finished.
It was also known as Stage Folk and Variety Follies.
Hassan Zee
Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.
Edward McMichael
Edward Scott McMichael( March 15, 1955 – November 3, 2008), also known as the Tuba Man, was an American tubist who became well known in Seattle for busking outside the city's various sports and performing arts venues during the 1990s and 2000s.
McMichael played outside the Kingdome, KeyArena, McCaw Hall, Safeco Field, and Qwest Field, among other venues.
McMichael was known for playing songs appropriate for the climate of the venue where he was playing, such as" Happy Days Are Here Again" during the Seattle Mariners' successful 1995 season; for adapting mainstream rock and roll songs to the tuba; and for wearing funny, often colorful hats while he played.
Joy Eden Harrison
Joy Eden Harrison( born September 4, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
She has released three critically acclaimed CDs, the late 1990s" Angel Town", the 2002" Unspoken", and most recently, 2006's" Blue Venus".
She won Best Jazz Artist in The 2002 Independent Music Awards for" Unspoken", selected by judges Tom Waits, Arturo Sandoval and Don Byron.
Harrison has two original songs in Hollywood films.
The Love Beneath Your Lies is in the film" Curtain Call".
Marlene is in the film" Suicide Kings".
Harrison says that her lyrical complexity reflects her link to her great aunt, novelist Anzia Yezierska, while her musical gifts and connection to the jazz era come from her great uncle, Milton Ager, the composer of Happy Days Are Here Again.
Blonde Venus
Blonde Venus is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant.
It was produced and directed by Josef von Sternberg from a screenplay by Jules Furthman, and S. K. Lauren adapted from a story by Furthman and von Sternberg.
The original story" Mother Love" was written by Dietrich herself.
The musical score was by W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Paul Marquardt and Oscar Potoker, with cinematography by Bert Glennon.
Dietrich performs three musical numbers in the film, including the now- obscure" You Little So- and- So"( music and lyrics by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin) and" I Could n't Be Annoyed"( music and lyrics by Leo Robin and Richard A. Whiting).
The highlight is the infamous" Hot Voodoo"( music by Ralph Rainger, lyrics by Sam Coslow), which is nearly 8 minutes in length and mostly instrumental, featuring jazz trumpet and drums.
Dietrich sings the lyrics toward the end of the sequence, which takes place in a nightclub.
" Blonde Venus" is considered a cult film.
Chasing Rainbows (1930 film)
Chasing Rainbows( also known as The Road Show) is a 1930 American Pre- Code romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, and released by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer.
The film reunites" The Broadway Melody" stars Bessie Love and Charles King, with a supporting cast of Jack Benny, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran.
This was Jack Benny's first dramatic role in a motion picture.
Filmed in July and August of 1929, it was not released for months later, missing an opportunity to capitalize on the success of its song" Happy Days Are Here Again", which by then had already been major hit.
Kjell Jerselius
Kjell Jerselius( born 27 September 1945) is an ex teacher at the Swedish school of NTI in Stockholm, but he is also a director of the movie" Mot härliga tider( Happy Days Are Here Again)".

Question: Which film has the director who was born earlier, Blonde Venus or Happy Days Are Here Again (Film)?
Answer: Blonde Venus