Amiya Chakravarty (director)
Amiya Chakravarty( 30 November 1912 – 6 March 1957) was a Bengali Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, who was leading film director in Hindi cinema of the 1940s and 1950s.
He is noted for films like" Daag"( 1952)," Patita"( 1953), and" Seema"( 1955) for which he won the 4th Filmfare Award for Best Story.
Chakravarty is also credited along with Devika Rani for discovering Dilip Kumar, whom he gave his first break in 1944 film Jwar Bhata( 1944 film).
Chakravarty also produced and directed Daag( 1952 film) in 1952 for which Dilip Kumar won his first ever Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
He was married to Saraswati Shastri a.k.a. Kamala, younger sister of Lakshmi Shankar( née Shastri) wife of Rajendra Shankar, elder brother of Sitar maestro, Ravi Shankar.
Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg( born Jonas Sternberg, 29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian- American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios.
He is best known for his film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s, including the highly regarded Paramount/ UFA production," The Blue Angel"( 1930).
Sternberg's finest works are noteworthy for their striking pictorial compositions, dense décor, chiaroscuro illumination and relentless camera motion, endowing the scenes with emotional intensity.
He is also credited with initiating the gangster film genre with his silent era movie" Underworld"( 1927).
Sternberg's themes typically offer the spectacle of an individual's desperate struggle to maintain their personal integrity as they sacrifice themselves for lust or love.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for" Morocco"( 1930) and" Shanghai Express"( 1932).
The Shanghai Gesture
The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American film noir directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, and Ona Munson.
It is based on a Broadway play of the same name by John Colton, which was adapted for the screen by Sternberg and produced by Arnold Pressburger for United Artists.
It was the last Hollywood film Sternberg ever completed: Howard Hughes fired him halfway through production of" Macao" in 1951, as well as from" Jet Pilot" in 1957.
Boris Leven received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction, while Richard Hageman was nominated for Best Original Music Score.
John Colton (screenwriter)
John Colton (December 31, 1887 – December 26, 1946) was an American playwright and screenwriter born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He spent the first 14 years of his life in Japan where his English father was a diplomat.
After returning to the US he soon worked for a Minneapolis newspaper.
He is best remembered for adapting, with Clemence Randolph, Somerset Maugham's novella "Rain" into a 1922 smash hit play starring Jeanne Eagels.
He wrote the original play, "The Shanghai Gesture," produced on Broadway in 1926.
He excelled at writing plays dealing with Americans in far-off lands, an experience Colton knew firsthand from his early youth in Japan.
With these huge successes Colton was lured to Hollywood, primarily MGM, where he wrote intertitles for some silent films and scenarios for others.
In the talking film era he wrote numerous screenplays.
Three of his stage plays found motion picture production: "Rain" (1932); "The Shanghai Gesture" (1941); and, posthumously, "Under Capricorn" (1949).
Colton suffered a stroke in 1945.
He died of a second stroke in Gainesville, Texas in 1946.
Colton, a gay man, never married.
Dekh Kabira Roya
Dekh Kabira Roya is a 1957 Bollywood romantic comedy film, directed by Amiya Chakravarty.
H. G. Simms
H. G. Simms was the Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1922 to 1923.
He was also Chairman of the Shanghai Club from 1914 to 1920.
Cecil Holliday
Cecil Holliday was the Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council in 1906.
He also served as commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps.
C. Henry Gordon
C. Henry Gordon( born Henry Racke; June 17, 1883 – December 3, 1940) was an American stage and film actor.
Gordon was born in New York City, New York.
He was educated both in New York and abroad in Switzerland and Germany.
For some years he owned and ran a silver mine in New Mexico but failed to make it pay, so he became an actor.
Gordon's entry into acting came accidentally when he accompanied his sister to a tryout for a play.
The director had him read a part, and he soon was a member of the troupe.
He had a long stage career, on and off Broadway, before entering films.
His Broadway credits included" The Shanghai Gesture"( 1928)," The Shanghai Gesture"( 1926)," Mismates"( 1925)," Puppets"( 1925)," The Saint"( 1924)," Mr. Pitt"( 1924)," The Crooked Square"( 1923)," Thin Ice"( 1922)," Lights Out"( 1922), and" The Drums of Jeopardy"( 1922).
He first worked in films in 1911 with George Beban in New York.
He appeared in 79 films between 1930 and 1940, frequently as a villain, such as Surat Khan in" The Charge of the Light Brigade"( 1936), opposite Errol Flynn.
On December 3, 1940, Gordon died at Hollywood Hospital in Los Angeles, California, after having his leg amputated on December 2 because of a blood clot.
Sudha Malhotra
Sudha Malhotra is an Indian playback singer.
She also acted in some Bollywood films and as a playback singer, worked in popular Bollywood movies in the 1950s and 1960s, like" ArzooDhool Ka PhoolAb Dilli Door NahinGirl Friend Barsat Ki RaatDidiKala PaniPrem Rog" and" Dekh Kabira Roya".
She was last heard in Raj Kapoor's" Prem Rog"( 1982) in the song" Yeh Pyar tha ya kuch aur tha".
Apart from Hindi songs, Sudha sang many popular Marathi songs( Bhavgeet) with Arun Date.
She was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2013.
Anita Guha
Anita Guha was an Indian Bengali actress who usually played mythological characters in films.
She became known for playing the title role in" Jai Santoshi Maa"( 1975).
Previously, she had played Sita in other mythological films;" Sampoorna Ramayana"( 1961)," Shree Ram Bharat Milap"( 1965) and" Tulsi Vivah"( 1971).
Besides this, she also played notable roles in films such as" Goonj Uthi Shehnai"( 1959)," Purnima"( 1965)," Pyar Ki Rahen"( 1959)," Gateway of India"( 1957)," Dekh Kabira Roya"( 1957) and" Sanjog"( 1961).

Question: Are the directors of films The Shanghai Gesture and Dekh Kabira Roya both from the same country?
Answer: no