Big City (1948 film)
Big City is a 1948 film.
Mother Wore Tights
Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers, directed by Walter Lang.
This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Miriam Young.
It was the highest grossing film of Grable's career up to this time, earning more than$ 5 million at the box office.
It was also 20th Century Fox's most successful film of 1947.
Alfred Newman won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Josef Myrow( music) and Mack Gordon( lyrics) were nominated for Original Song(" You Do"), while Harry Jackson was nominated for Color Cinematography.
Aag (1948 film)
Aag is a 1948 Bollywood film which is produced, directed by and stars Raj Kapoor.
The film marked the debut of him as producer and director and was the first film produced by his R.K. banner.
Nargis, Premnath, Nigar Sultana and Kamini Kaushal also starred in supporting roles.
Raj Kapoor's youngest brother Shashi Kapoor appeared as a child artist in this film playing the younger version of his character( Kewal).
This was the first film in which Raj Kapoor and Nargis appeared together.
Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor( 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988) was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Indian cinema.
Born at Kapoor Haveli in Peshawar to actor Prithviraj Kapoor he was a member of the Kapoor family which has produced several Bollywood superstars.
Kapoor is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors and filmmakers in the history of Hindi cinema.
He received multiple accolades, including 3 National Film Awards and 11 Filmfare Awards in India.
The Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award is named after Raj Kapoor.
He was a two- time nominee for the Palme d' Or grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his films" Awaara"( 1951) and" Boot Polish"( 1954).
His performance in" Awaara" was ranked as one of the top ten greatest performances of all time by" Time" magazine.
His films attracted worldwide audiences, particularly in Asia and Europe.
He was called" the Clark Gable of the Indian film industry".
The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 1971 for his contributions to the arts.
India's highest award in cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, was bestowed on him in 1987 by the Government of India.
Dan Dailey
Daniel James
Dailey Jr.( December 14, 1915 – October 16, 1978) was an American dancer and actor.
He is best remembered for a series of popular musicals he made at 20th Century Fox such as" Mother Wore Tights"( 1947).
Josef Myrow
Josef Myrow( February 18, 1910 – December 24, 1987 in Los Angeles, California) was a Russian- born composer known for his work in film scores in the 1940s and 1950s.
He was nominated for an Academy Award twice: in 1947 for the song" You Do" from the film" Mother Wore Tights" and in 1950 for" Wilhelmina" from the film" Wabash Avenue".
Other notable compositions include" Autumn Nocturne" and" You Make Me Feel So Young".
He also wrote the official song of the Civil Air Patrol, the United States Air Force Auxiliary.
Miriam Young
Miriam Young( died September 12, 1974) was an American writer best known for children's books.
She also wrote" Mother Wore Tights", a memoir about growing up in a vaudeville family, which was adapted as the 1947 film of the same name, a" Hollywood supermusical".
Young was born in 1911 or 1912, her" New York Times" obituary implies.
Other sources give year of birth 1913.
The Library of Congress gives date February 26, 1913.
Harry Jackson (cinematographer)
Harry Jackson( April 15, 1896 – August 3, 1953) was an American cinematographer.
Jackson was born in Nebraska, and was first employed in Hollywood as a still photographer for Warner Brothers.
As a cinematographer he was active through the end of the silent era in 1927, through his death in 1953, shooting about 75 films altogether.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Color Cinematography for his work on 1947's" Mother Wore Tights".
Walter Lang
Walter Lang( August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972) was an American film director.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Mother Wore Tights or Aag (1948 Film)?
Answer: Mother Wore Tights