Robert Florey
Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor.
Born as Robert Fuchs in Paris, he became an orphan at an early age and was then raised in Switzerland.
In 1920 he worked at first as a film journalist, then as an assistant and extra in featurettes from Louis Feuillade.
Florey moved to the United States in 1921.
As a director, Florey's most productive decades were the 1930s and 1940s, working on relatively low-budget fillers for Paramount and Warner Brothers.
His reputation is balanced between his avant-garde expressionist style, most evident in his early career, and his work as a fast, reliable studio-system director called on to finish troubled projects, such as 1939's "Hotel Imperial".
He directed more than 50 movies.
His most popular film is likely
the first Marx Brothers feature "The Cocoanuts" of 1929, and his 1932 foray into Universal-style horror,
"Murders in the Rue Morgue" is regarded by horror fans as highly reflective of German expressionism.
In 2006, as his 1937 film "Daughter of Shanghai" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, Florey was called "widely acclaimed as the best director working in major studio B-films".
Charles Novi
Charles Novi( June 30, 1887 – April 1966) was an American art director.
He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film" The Desert Song".
Bill Smith (footballer, born 1897)
William Thomas Smith( born 9 April 1897, date of death unknown) was an English professional footballer.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Charles Grayson (writer)
Charles Grayson( 1903 – 1973) was an American screenwriter.
He worked on around forty films between 1936 and 1958.
He worked under contract for Warner Brothers for a number of years.
Although uncredited in the film final, along with Robert Buckner he was instrumental in reviving the operetta film" The Desert Song"( 1943) by proposing an updated version of an old studio hit.
Thomas Scott (diver)
Thomas Scott( 1907- date of death unknown) was an English diver.
The Desert Song (1943 film)
The Desert Song is a 1943 American musical film.
It was directed by Robert Florey and starred Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning and Bruce Cabot.
It is based on the 1926 operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction
(Charles Novi, Jack McConaghy).
This film version of the operetta was, like the 1929 film version, almost never seen after its original release due to Pre-Code content and copyright issues, which made the film hard to find or view.
In 2014, it was remastered, restored and released on DVD by Warner Brothers.
The film is more sophisticated technically than the earlier film due to its large budget and advances in both sound and color.
This is the first film version to be made in full three-strip Technicolor.
It tries to make the operetta topical in terms of World War II, by having the outlaw hero with a dual identity fight the Nazis as well as the Riffs.
As in the 1953 film, the hero's name is changed to El Khobar, rather than the Red Shadow.
The 1943 "Desert Song" is perhaps the only instance in which a stage operetta of the 1920s has been updated to reflect topical concerns of the 1940s.
In fact, the United States Office of War Information held up release of the film for a year because of the shifting political positions of Vichy France.
It did well at the box office nonetheless, and was Warner Brothers' highest grossing film of the year.
The Desert Song (1953 film)
The Desert Song is a 1953 film version in Technicolor of Sigmund Romberg's operetta.
It is the third film version of the operetta, the third made by Warner Bros., and the second in full three- strip Technicolor.
Although it was released in 1953, it was not made in widescreen; at that time Twentieth- Century Fox held the rights to Cinemascope, which was introduced that year in the film" The Robe".
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: When did the director of film The Desert Song (1943 Film) die?
Answer: 16 May 1979