Step Lively (1944 film)
Step Lively is a 1944 American musical film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Sinatra.
" Step Lively" was based on the 1937 play" Room Service", by Allen Boretz and John Murray.
It was a remake of the 1938 RKO film" Room Service", starring the Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball, and Ann Miller.
Querelle
Querelle is a 1982 West German- French English- language drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brad Davis, adapted from French author Jean Genet's 1947 novel" Querelle of Brest".
It marked Fassbinder's final film as a writer/ director; it was posthumously released just months after the director died of a drug overdose in June 1982.
Allen Boretz
Allen Boretz( 1900 – 1985), was an American songwriter, playwright and screenwriter.
The great success of his and John Murray's Broadway hit" Room Service"( 1937) led to offers from Hollywood, and he wrote and co-wrote screenplays from the late 1930s through the 1940s.
His film credits include" It Ai n't Hay"( 1943)," Step Lively"( 1944)," Up in Arms"( 1944)," The Princess and the Pirate"( 1944)," Ziegfeld Follies"( 1946)," Copacabana"( 1947)," My Girl Tisa"( 1948), and" Two Guys from Texas"( 1949).
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Boretz' screenwriting ended abruptly when he was blacklisted in the early 1950s.
However," Room Service" has never stopped being produced by professional and amateur theatrical companies throughout the world, and has been revived on Broadway several times.
Warren B. Duff
Warren Duff( May 17, 1904 – August 5, 1973) was a film and television writer and producer.
As a writer, Duff wrote for films including," Fashions of 1934 Angels with Dirty Faces"( 1938)," Experiment Perilous"( 1944)," Step Lively"( 1944)," Chicago Deadline"( 1949) and" Appointment with Danger"( 1951).
He worked on television programs including" The Rogues( 1965) The Invaders",( 1967) and" Mannix"( 1967).
Duff, the producer of the film noir classic" Out of the Past"( 1947), was once an actor and director on the New York City stage before turning to screenwriting when he entered the film business in 1931.
He died of cancer in 1973.
Gambler's Choice
Gambler's Choice is a 1944 film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly.
Le Masque de la Méduse
Le masque de la Méduse is a 2009 fantasy horror film directed by Jean Rollin.
The film is a modern-day telling of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon and was inspired by the 1964 classic Hammer Horror film of the same name and the 1981 cult classic" Clash of the Titans".
It was Rollin's final film, as the director died in 2010.
The Midlanders
The Midlanders is a 1920 American silent drama film starring Bessie Love and directed by husband and wife duo Joseph De Grasse and Ida May Park.
It was produced by Andrew J. Callaghan Productions and distributed by Federated Film Exchanges of America.
It is based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Charles Tenney Jackson, published by Bobbs- Merrill Company.
Only a small fragment of this film is known to survive.
Joseph De Grasse
Joseph Louis De Grasse( May 4, 1873 – May 25, 1940) was a Canadian film director.
Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he was the elder brother of actor Sam De Grasse.
Tim Whelan
Tim Whelan( November 2, 1893 – August 12, 1957) was an American film director, writer, producer and actor best remembered for his writing credits on" Harold Lloyd" and" Harry Langdon" comedies, and his directing of mostly British films( e.g." The Thief of Bagdad"( 1940).
At the time of his death, Whelan was survived by his widow, former silent film actress Miriam Seegar and their two sons.
Lost in a Harem
Lost in a Harem is a 1944 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

Question: Which film has the director died earlier, Step Lively (1944 Film) or The Midlanders?
Answer: The Midlanders