Doctor in Distress (film)
Doctor in Distress is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, and Samantha Eggar.
It is the fifth of the seven films in the" Doctor" series.
After a one- film absence, it was the final return to the role of Simon Sparrow by Dirk Bogarde, and also the return( although in a different role) of Donald Houston.
The film uses some of the characters in Richard Gordon's" Doctor" novels, but is not based on any of them.
H. Bruce Humberstone
H. Bruce" Lucky" Humberstone( November 18, 1901 – October 11, 1984) was a movie actor( as a child), a script clerk, an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan and, ultimately, a director.
Ralph Thomas
Ralph Philip Thomas MC( 10 August 1915 – 17 March 2001) was an English film director.
He is perhaps best remembered for directing the" Doctor" series of films.
His brother, Gerald Thomas, was also a film director, probably best remembered for the" Carry On..." film series, and his son is the Academy Award- winning film producer, Jeremy Thomas.
He cast the actor James Robertson Justice in many of his films.
Thomas often worked with the producer Betty E. Box, who was married to" Carry On" producer Peter Rogers.
Thomas was a nephew of producer Victor Saville.
Damsels in Distress (film)
Damsels in Distress( original title: Violet Wister's Damsels in Distress and Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress) is an American comedy film written and directed by Whit Stillman and starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, and Analeigh Tipton.
It is set at a United States East Coast university.
First screened at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, the film opened in New York and Los Angeles on April 6, 2012.
Hello, 'Frisco
Hello,' Frisco is a 1924 silent short comedy film directed by Slim Summerville and starring Summerville, Bobby Dunn and a host of famous film actors of the era.
It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Alice Faye
Alice Jeanne Faye(" née" Leppert; May 5, 1915 – May 9, 1998) was an American actress and singer.
She sang" You'll Never Know", which won its composers the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 1944 Oscars ceremony.
Faye introduced the song in the musical film" Hello, Frisco, Hello"( 1943).
Faye was married twice and had two daughters.
She married actor and singer Tony Martin in 1937, and they divorced in 1940.
She married actor Phil Harris in 1941, a union which lasted until his death in 1995.
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.
Doctor in Love
Doctor in Love is a 1960 British comedy film, the fourth of the seven films in the" Doctor" series, starring James Robertson Justice as Sir Lancelot Spratt and Michael Craig as Dr Richard Hare.
This was the first film in the series not to feature Dirk Bogarde, although he did return for the next film in the series" Doctor in Distress".
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Hello, Frisco, Hello is a 1943 American musical film starring Alice Faye, John Payne, Lynn Bari, and Jack Oakie.
The film was made in Technicolor and released by 20th Century-Fox.
This was one of the last musicals made by Faye for Fox, and in later interviews Faye said it was clear Fox was promoting Betty Grable as her successor.
Released at the height of World War II, the film became one of Faye's highest-grossing pictures for Fox.
The film tells the story of vaudeville performers in San Francisco, during the period of the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition when Alexander Graham Bell made the first transcontinental phone call from New York City to San Francisco.
The movie introduced the song "You'll Never Know", which was sung by Alice Faye and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Although Faye never made an official recording of the song, it is often named as her signature song.
"Hello, Frisco, Hello" was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography.
It was directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and featured Lynn Bari and Jack Oakie.
The opening sequence, in its entirety, is used in the film "Nob Hill" (1945) as is the basic plot.
This film is a remake of "King of Burlesque" (1936)
A Damsel in Distress (1919 film)
A Damsel in Distress is a silent romantic comedy film released in 1919, starring June Caprice and Creighton Hale.
The film is based on the novel" A Damsel in Distress" by English humorist P. G. Wodehouse.
The director was George Archainbaud.
The same novel later inspired a 1937 film.

Question: Which film has the director died first, Doctor In Distress (Film) or Hello, Frisco, Hello?
Answer: Hello, Frisco, Hello