Victor Fleming
Victor Lonzo Fleming( February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.
His most popular films were" The Wizard of Oz" and" Gone with the Wind"( both of 1939), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.
Fleming has those same two films listed in the top 10 of the American Film Institute's 2007 AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list.
David Boehm
David Boehm( 1 February 1893 in New York – 31 July 1962 in Santa Monica, California) was an American screenwriter.
He is best known for the 1944 World War II heavenly fantasy" A Guy Named Joe"( remade by Steven Spielberg in 1989 as" Always"), for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
He also contributed scripts to" Gold Diggers of 1933 Ex- Lady"( 1933), and" Knickerbocker Holiday"( 1944).
Van Johnson
Charles Van Dell Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American film, television theatre and radio actor, singer, and dancer.
He was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during and after World War II.
Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy-next-door wholesomeness" which made him a popular Hollywood star in the 1940s and 1950s, playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor, or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM films during the war years, with such films as "Thirty Seconds Over TokyoA Guy Named Joe", and "The Human Comedy".
He made occasional World War II films through the end of the 1960s, and he played a military officer in one of his final feature films in 1992.
At the time of his death in December 2008, he was one of the last surviving matinee idols of Hollywood's "golden age".
A Guy Named Joe
A Guy Named
Joe is a 1943 film released by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer and directed by Victor Fleming.
The film was produced by Everett Riskin, and starred Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, and Van Johnson.
The screenplay, written by Dalton Trumbo and Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, was adapted from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story.
The film is notable for being Van Johnson's first major role.
It also features the popular song" I'll Get By( As Long as I Have You)" by Fred Ahlert and Roy Turk, performed in the film by Irene Dunne.
Steven Spielberg's 1989 film" Always" is a remake of" A Guy Named Joe", and stars Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman.
" Always" updates the story for a 1989 setting, exchanging the World War II backdrop to one of aerial firefighting.
The African Queen (film)
The African Queen is a 1951 British- American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester.
The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf.
The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel.
It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and has a music score by Allan Gray.
The film stars Humphrey Bogart( who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar), and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel.
" The African Queen" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, with the Library of Congress deeming it" culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".
The film holds a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews.
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston( August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist.
Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident.
He returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life.
He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics:" The Maltese Falcon"( 1941)," The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"( 1948)," The Asphalt Jungle"( 1950)," The African Queen"( 1951)," The Misfits"( 1961)," Fat City"( 1972)," The Man Who Would Be King"( 1975) and" Prizzi's Honor"( 1986).
During his 46- year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins.
Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years.
He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting.
While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed.
Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an" heroic quest," as in" Moby Dick", or" The Red Badge of Courage".
In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming" destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension.
Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war.
Huston has been referred to as" a titana rebel", and a" renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry.
Author Ian Freer describes him as" cinema's Ernest Hemingway" — a filmmaker who was" never afraid to tackle tough issues head on."
Always (1989 film)
Always is a 1989 American romantic comedy- drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Brad Johnson and Audrey Hepburn in her final film role.
" Always" is a remake of the 1943 romantic drama" A Guy Named Joe" set during World War II.
The main departure from the 1943 film is the altering of the setting from WWII to that of a modern aerial firefighting operation.
The film, however, follows the same basic plot line: the spirit of a recently dead expert pilot mentors a newer pilot, while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend he left behind.
The names of the four principal characters of the earlier film are all the same, with the exception of the Ted Randall character, who is called Ted Baker in the remake, and Pete's last name is Sandich instead of Sandidge.
John Hoesli
John Hoesli( 8 March 1919 – 22 March 1997) was a British art and set decorator.
He is best known for being the art director on films such as John Huston's" The African Queen", Stanley Kubrick's( 1968), Anthony Asquith's" Orders to Kill"( 1958) with Alan Withy, and Jeannot Szwarc's( 1985) with Don Dossett.
It was Hoesli who found the old steamboat used in" The African Queen" at Butiaba on Lake Albert.
Hoesli was also an assistant art director for many films which often went uncredited including Alfred Hitchcock's" Jamaica Inn"( 1939), Gerald Thomas's" Carry on Emmannuelle"( 1978), and" Lifeforce"( 1985), and worked as a set decorator for films such as John Boorman's" Deliverance"( 1972).
He died in March 1997 at the age of 78 in Bracknell, Berkshire.
Daisy Reyes
Daisy Garcia Reyes is a Filipino beauty queen, film and television actress, singer, TV-host, politician and businesswoman.
She was crowned Binibining Pilipinas World 1996.
She earned the title as the Beauty Queen Diva.
She is councilor in Pateros, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Barry Melton
Barry" The Fish" Melton( born June 14, 1947) is the co-founder and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and the Fish and The Dinosaurs.
He appears on all the Country Joe and the Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded.
He appeared in the films made at Monterey Pop and Woodstock, and also appeared as an outlaw in the neo-Western film," Zachariah," and other films in which Country Joe and the Fish appear.
An attorney and member of the State Bar of California, Melton has maintained a criminal defense practice since 1982.

Question: Do both A Guy Named Joe and The African Queen (Film) films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes