The Plague of Florence
The Plague in Florence( German: Die Pest in Florenz) is a 1919 German silent historical film directed by Otto Rippert for Eric Pommer's Deutsche Eclair( Decla) production company.
The screenplay was written by Fritz Lang.
It stars Marga von Kierska, Theodor Becker, Karl Bernhard and Julietta Brandt.
The film is a tragic romance set in Florence in 1348, just before the first outbreaks in Italy of the Black Death, which then spread out across the entire continent.
Lang's screenplay was based on the Edgar Allan Poe story" The Masque of the Red Death", but he heightened the story's sexual tension by making the plague appear in the form of a beautiful seductress.
The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)
The Masque of the Red Death is a 1964 horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price.
The story follows a prince who terrorizes a plague- ridden peasantry while merrymaking in a lonely castle with his jaded courtiers.
The screenplay, written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell, was based upon the 1842 short story of the same name by American author Edgar Allan Poe, and incorporates a subplot based on another Poe tale," Hop- Frog'".
Another subplot is drawn from" Torture by Hope" by Auguste Villiers de l' Isle- Adam.
It is the seventh of a series of eight Corman film adaptations largely based on Poe's works made by American International Pictures.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman( born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor.
He has been called" The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.
Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low- budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Admired by members of the French New Wave and" Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art.
He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award" for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers."
Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner.
Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including" The Silence of the Lambs The Godfather Part IIApollo 13 The Manchurian Candidate" and" Philadelphia".
A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011.
The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well- received screening at Sundance.
Gents Without Cents
Gents Without Cents is a 1944 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges( Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard).
It is the 81st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Assassination (1964 film)
, also known as The Assassin, is a 1964 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda.
Dave Lee (jazz musician)
Dave Lee (born 12 August 1926) is a jazz pianist, and a former orchestra leader, music arranger, songwriter and film composer.
In a varied musical career, he wrote the hit song "Goodness Gracious Me", was the resident musician on "That Was the Week That Was", wrote the score for the movie "The Masque of the Red Death", had a hit jazz album in the USA, and was a resident fixture in early episodes of "The Avengers".
Later in life he was instrumental in founding 102.2 Jazz FM.
Sylvia Kersenbaum
Sylvia Haydée Kersenbaum( born 27 December 1945) is an Argentine pianist, composer and teacher.
Among other things, she is recognized for performing the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas twice( in 1989 – 1990 and 2003 – 2004), and her music for the ballet" The Masque of the Red Death", based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Jules White
Jules White( born Julius Weiss; 17 September 190030 April 1985) was a Hungarian- born American film director and producer best known for his short- subject comedies starring The Three Stooges.
Charles Beaumont
Charles Beaumont( January 2, 1929 – February 21, 1967) was an American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres.
He is remembered as a writer of classic" Twilight Zone" episodes, such as" The Howling ManMiniature Printer's Devil", and" Number Twelve Looks Just Like You", but also penned the screenplays for several films, among them" 7 Faces of Dr. LaoThe Intruder", and" The Masque of the Red Death".
Novelist Dean Koontz has said," Charles Beaumont was one of" the" seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre."
Beaumont is also the subject of the documentary," Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man", by Jason V Brock.

Question: Which film has the director born first, Gents Without Cents or The Masque Of The Red Death (1964 Film)?
Answer: Gents Without Cents