Mary Stanbery Watts
Mary Stanbery Watts( Mrs. Miles Taylor Watts)( 1868–1958) was an American novelist.
She was born in Delaware County, Ohio, and educated in Cincinnati.
Her work is characterized by frank, faithful, and sympathetic portrayal and interpretation of American life.
Her first novel," The Tenants"( 1908), was followed by" Nathan Burke"( 1910), an historical novel of the Mexican War;" The Legacy"( 1911);" Van Cleve"( 1913), set in the time of the Spanish – American War;" The Rise of Jennie Cushing"( 1915), applying a very modern touchstone to moral values;" The Rudder"( 1916).
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Arthur Bliss Lane
Arthur Bliss Lane (16 June 1894 – 12 August 1956) was a United States diplomat who served in Latin America and Europe.
During his diplomatic career he dealt with the rise of a dictatorship in Nicaragua in the 1930s, World War II and its aftermath in Europe, and the rise of the Soviet-installed communist regime in Poland.
Jennie Lena
Jennie Willemstijn known by her stage name of Jennie Lena is a Dutch singer, songwriter.
Charles B. Allen
On or about 1850, Charles B. Allen founded the New York- based secret society Order of the Star Spangled Banner during the rise of the Know Nothing Party and the rise of nativism( politics).
The Rise of Jennie Cushing
The Rise of Jennie Cushing is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, and distributed by Artcraft Pictures, an affiliate of Paramount Pictures.
The story based upon the novel "The Rise of Jennie Cushing" by Mary Watts and
stars Broadway's Elsie Ferguson.
The film marked Ferguson's second motion picture.
It is a lost film.
Maurice Tourneur
Maurice Tourneur (2 February 1876 – 4 August 1961) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Ian Watt
Ian Watt( 9 March 1917 – 13 December 1999) was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University.
His" The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding"( 1957) is an important work in the history of the genre.
Published in 1957," The Rise of the Novel" is considered by many contemporary literary scholars as the seminal work on the origins of the novel, and an important study of literary realism.
The book traces the rise of the modern novel to philosophical, economic and social trends and conditions that become prominent in the early 18th century.
He is the subject of an intellectual biography by Marina MacKay," Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic"( 2018).
Joseph August
Joseph H. August, A.S.C.( 26 April 1890 – 25 September 1947) was an American cinematographer and co-founder of the American Society of Cinematographers.
His films included" Gunga Din"( 1939) for which he was nominated for Academy Award for Best Cinematography," The Hunchback of Notre Dame"( 1939)," The Devil and Daniel Webster"( 1941), and" Portrait of Jennie"( 1948).
He died in 1947 shortly after completing filming of" Portrait of Jennie".
He received his second Oscar nomination, posthumously, for this film.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: What nationality is the director of film The Rise Of Jennie Cushing?
Answer: French