My True Story (film)
My True Story is a 1951 American romantic crime drama film about a female jewel thief.
It was directed by Mickey Rooney.
A. R. Harwood
Alexander Roy Harwood( 1897–1980), better known as A. R. Harwood, or Dick Harwood, was an Australian film director and producer who also worked in exhibition.
He was inspired to become a filmmaker when he was posted to Tahiti to work for an insurance company and watched the shooting of" Never the Twain Shall Meet"( 1925).
He returned to Australia and produced and directed" The Man Who Forgot"( 1927).
Harwood went on to make a number of feature films over the next twenty years.
Film historians Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper said of him that" what Harwood lacked in talent as a director, he made up for in perseverance, usually in the face of formidable shortages of finance and equipment."
He also worked as an insurance broker, real estate agent, theatre manager and chief executive for the Miss Australia Quest.
Harwood was married with one daughter.
My True Love, My Wound
My True Love, My Wound is a 1987 French drama film directed by José Pinheiro.
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925 film)
Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1925 American silent South Seas drama film based on the book by Peter B. Kyne, produced by MGM and directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Anita Stewart and featuring Boris Karloff in an uncredited bit part.
It was remade as talking picture in 1931 at MGM by director W. S. Van Dyke.
This is one of Tourneur's many lost and sought after films.
East Is East (1999 film)
East Is East is a 1999 British comedy- drama film written by Ayub Khan- Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell.
It is set in Salford, Lancashire,( now in Greater Manchester), in 1971, in a mixed- ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George( Om Puri) and an English mother, Ella( Linda Bassett).
" East Is East" is based on the play" East is East" by Ayub Khan- Din, which opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in October 1996 and Royal Court Theatre in November 1996.
The title derives from the Rudyard Kipling poem" The Ballad of East and West", of which the opening line reads:" Oh East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet".
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney( born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer, and radio personality.
In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent film era.
At the height of a career that was marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized American family values.
A versatile performer, he became a celebrated character actor later in his career.
Laurence Olivier once said he considered Rooney" the best there has ever been".
Clarence Brown, who directed him in two of his earliest dramatic roles," National Velvet" and" The Human Comedy", said he was" the closest thing to a genius I ever worked with".
Rooney first performed in vaudeville as a child and made his film debut at the age of six.
At 14, he played Puck in the play and later the 1935 film adaptation of" A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Critic David Thomson hailed his performance as" one of the cinema's most arresting pieces of magic".
In 1938, he co-starred in" Boys Town".
At 19, he was the first teenager to be nominated for an Oscar for his leading role in" Babes in Arms", and he was awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award in 1939.
At the peak of his career between the ages of 15 and 25, he made 43 films, which made him one of Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer's most consistently successful actors and a favorite of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer.
Rooney was the top box- office attraction from 1939 to 1941 and one of the best- paid actors of that era, but his career would never again rise to such heights.
Drafted into the Army during World War II, he served nearly two years entertaining over two million troops on stage and radio and was awarded a Bronze Star for performing in combat zones.
Returning from the war in 1945, he was too old for juvenile roles but too short to be an adult movie star, and was unable to get as many starring roles.
Nevertheless, Rooney's popularity was renewed with well- received supporting roles in films such as" Breakfast at Tiffany's"( 1961)," Requiem for a Heavyweight"( 1962)," It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"( 1963), and" The Black Stallion"( 1979).
In the early 1980s, he returned to Broadway in" Sugar Babies" and again became a celebrated star.
Rooney made hundreds of appearances on TV, including dramas, variety programs, and talk shows, and won an Emmy in 1982 plus a Golden Globe for his role in" Bill"( 1981).
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film)
Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1931 drama film produced and distributed by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro.
It is based on the book by Peter B. Kyne.
The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and was filmed in Tahiti like Van Dyke's two previous south sea adventures" The Pagan" and" White Shadows in the South Seas".
The film is a remake of a 1925 silent film of the same name.
W. S. Van Dyke
Woodbridge Strong
" W. S." Van Dyke II( Woody)( March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943) was an American film director and writer who made several successful early sound films, including" Tarzan the Ape Man" in 1932," The Thin Man" in 1934," San Francisco" in 1936, and six popular musicals with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald.
He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Director for" The Thin Man" and" San Francisco", and directed four actors to Oscar nominations: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Norma Shearer, and Robert Morley.
Known as a reliable craftsman who made his films on schedule and under budget, he earned the name" One Take Woody" for his quick and efficient style of filming.
Zara Nutley
Zara Nutley (born Zahrah Mary Chassib Jaber, 19 August 1924 – 9 October 2016), was a British actress of stage and television.
She is best known for her roles in two television comedy series, "Mind Your Language" (as college principal Miss Courtney) and "Never the Twain" (as Aunt Eleanor).
Mende Nazer
Mende Nazer( born c. 1982) is a UK- resident, Sudanese author and human rights activist.
Nazer was a slave in Sudan and in London for eight years.
She later co-wrote the 2002 book" Slave: My True Story".

Question: Do both films My True Story (Film) and Never The Twain Shall Meet (1931 Film) have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: yes