The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox is a 1976 American western romantic comedy film starring Goldie Hawn and George Segal, produced, directed and co-written by Melvin Frank.
François Peruçel de la Rivière
François Perucel, also known as de la Rivière was an influential 16th- century French Protestant.
Having spent some time at the pastor of the French Church, London, aided by Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, Perucel started a colony of Protestants in Wesel, which took in many of the Marian exiles, including in time, the Duchess and her husband, Richard Bertie.
Life Is a Bed of Roses
Life Is a Bed of Roses( French: La vie est un roman) is a 1983 French film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Jean Gruault.
The English- language distribution title of the film is" Life Is a Bed of Roses", though it has also been known as" Forbek's Castle" and" Life Is a Fairy Tale".
A literal translation of the original title is" Life is a novel[" or" story, romance]"; in the film the French quotation( or misquotation) is attributed to Napoleon.
Melvin Frank
Melvin Frank( 13 August 1913 – 13 October 1988) was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.
He is known for his work on films such as" Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House"( 1948)," The Court Jester"( 1956), and" A Touch of Class"( 1973).
Satan Town
Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey.
Prints of the film have survived.
Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll
Elizabeth Georgiana Campbell, Duchess of Argyll(" née" Leveson- Gower; 30 May 1824 – 25 May 1878) was a British noblewoman and abolitionist.
Born into the wealthy Sutherland- Leveson- Gower family, she was the eldest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland by his wife, the political hostess Lady Harriet Howard.
In 1844 Elizabeth married George Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, eldest son and heir to the 7th Duke of Argyll.
She became the Duchess of Argyll in 1847 when her husband succeeded his father.
Like her mother, the Duchess of Argyll was a prominent opponent of slavery.
The pair helped write a letter titled" An Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters, the Women of the United States of America", calling for an end of slavery; it attracted signatures from 562,848 British women.
The two often hosted the American abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe when she visited England.
The Duchess and Beecher Stowe were friends and maintained a correspondence.
In 1868, the Duchess of Argyll succeeded the Duchess of Wellington as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria, holding the position until 1870, when she resigned due to ill health.
Soon after being appointed a member of the newly created Order of the Crown of India, she died in 1878 whilst eating with William Ewart Gladstone in London.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh( born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art( RADA), East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and London Film School.
He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s.
In the 1970s and'80s his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television.
His well- known films include the comedy- dramas" Life Is Sweet"( 1990) and" Career Girls"( 1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film" Topsy- Turvy"( 1999) and the bleak working- class drama" All or Nothing"( 2002).
His most notable works are the black comedy- drama" Naked"( 1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar- nominated, BAFTA and Palme d' Or- winning drama" Secrets& Lies"( 1996), the Golden Lion winning working- class drama" Vera Drake"( 2004), and the Palme d' Or nominated biopic" Mr. Turner"( 2014).
His stage plays include" Smelling A RatIt's A Great Big ShameGreek TragedyGoose- PimplesEcstasy" and" Abigail's Party".
Leigh is known for his lengthy rehearsal and improvisation techniques with actors to build characters and narrative for his films.
His purpose is to capture reality and present" emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, vulnerable films."
His films and stage plays, according to critic Michael Coveney," comprise a distinctive, homogenous body of work which stands comparison with anyone's in the British theatre and cinema over the same period."
Leigh,
Coveney said, has helped to create stars – Liz Smith in" Hard Labour", Alison Steadman in" Abigail's Party", Brenda Blethyn in" Grown- Ups", Antony Sher in" Goose- Pimples", Gary Oldman and Tim Roth in" Meantime", Jane Horrocks in" Life is Sweet", David Thewlis in" Naked—" and remarked that the list of actors who have worked with him over the years —including Paul Jesson, Phil Daniels, Lindsay Duncan, Lesley Sharp, Kathy Burke, Stephen Rea, Julie Walters –" comprises an impressive, almost representative, nucleus of outstanding British acting talent."
His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and the Italian Federico Fellini.
Ian Buruma, writing in" The New York Review of Books" in January 1994, commented:" It is hard to get on a London bus or listen to the people at the next table in a cafeteria without thinking of Mike Leigh.
Like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory.
Leigh's London is as distinctive as Fellini's Rome or Ozu's Tokyo."
Bill Butler (film editor)
Bill Butler( 1933 – 4 June 2017) was an English film editor.
He was known for editing" A Clockwork Orange"( 1971), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Other notable films edited by Butler include" Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell"( 1968)," A Touch of Class"( 1973) and" The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox"( 1976), all directed by Melvin Frank.
He died in Sherman Oaks, California in 2017.
" A Clockwork Orange" was listed as the 40th best- edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
Life Is Sweet (film)
Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British tragicomedy film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall.
Leigh's third cinematic film, it was his most commercially successful title at the time of release.
The, by turns, tragi-comic story follows the fortunes of a working- class North London family over a few weeks one summer.

Question: Do both films Life Is Sweet (film) and The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no