Irving Lerner
Irving Lerner( 7 March 1909, New York City- 25 December 1976, Los Angeles) was an American filmmaker.
Before becoming a filmmaker, Lerner was a research editor for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, getting his start in film by making documentaries for the anthropology department.
In the early 1930s, he was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League, and later, Frontier Films.
He made films for the Rockefeller Foundation and other academic institutions, becoming a film editor and second- unit director involved with the emerging American documentary movement of the late 1930s.
Lerner produced two documentaries for the Office of War Information during WW II and after the war became the head of New York University's Educational Film Institute.
In 1948, Lerner and Joseph Strick shared directorial chores on a short documentary," Muscle Beach".
Lerner then turned to low- budget, quickly filmed features.
When not hastily making his own thrillers, Lerner worked as a technical advisor, a second- unit director, a co-editor and an editor.
Lerner was cinematographer, director, or assistant director on both fiction and documentary films such as" One Third of a Nation"( 1939)," Valley Town"( 1940)," The Land"( 1942) directed by Robert Flaherty, and" Suicide Attack"( 1950).
Lerner was also producer of the OWI documentary" Hymn of the Nations"( 1944), directed by Alexander Hammid, and featuring Arturo Toscanini.
He was co-director with Joseph Strick of the short documentary" Muscle Beach"( 1948).
Irving Lerner was also a director and film editor with directing credits such as" Studs Lonigan"( 1960) and editing credits such as Stanley Kubrick's" Spartacus"( 1960) and Martin Scorsese's" New York, New York"( 1977).
Lerner died during the cutting of" New York, New York", and the film was dedicated to him.
Shannen Doherty
Shannen Maria Doherty( born April 12, 1971) is an American actress, producer, and television director.
She is known for her roles as Jenny Wilder in" Little House on the Prairie"( 1982- 1983), Maggie Malene in" Girls Just Want to Have Fun"( 1985), Kris Witherspoon in" Our House"( 1986- 1988), Heather Duke in" Heathers"( 1988), Brenda Walsh in" Beverly Hills, 90210"( 1990 – 1994), Prue Halliwell in" Charmed"( 1998 – 2001), and" BH90210"( 2019)
Robert Hazard
Robert Hazard( born Robert Rimato; August 21, 1948 – August 5, 2008), was an American musician known for composing and recording a demo of the song" Girls Just Want to Have Fun", which Cyndi Lauper turned into a best- selling hit.
He also composed the 1980s new wave and MTV songs," Escalator of Life" and" Change Reaction", which he performed with his band, Robert Hazard and the Heroes, which was popular in the Philadelphia club scene during the 1980s.
These songs appeared on the five song EP" Robert Hazard", released in 1982.
Hazard's first major- label album," Wing of Fire", was released by RCA Records in January 1984.
City of Fear (film)
City of Fear( 1959) is a black- and- white film noir directed by Irving Lerner.
Rick Chertoff
Richard E. Chertoff( born March 29, 1950 in New York, NY) is an American five- time Grammy- nominated producer responsible for such hits as Joan Osborne's" One of Us", Cyndi Lauper's" Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and" Time After Time" and Sophie B. Hawkins'" Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover".
Both Cyndi Lauper's album" She's So Unusual" and Joan Osborne's album" Relish" were debut albums that garnered multi-platinum sales and multiple Grammy nominations.
Chertoff was nominated twice for' album of the year', twice for' record of the year' and also for' producer of the year.
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Biff Yeager
Biff Yeager is an American actor.
He has appeared in many TV series including," The Wonder YearsScrubsSeinfeld" and" Gilmore Girls".
His film credits include" Black Samurai"( 1977)," Repo Man"( 1984)," Prime Risk"( 1985)," Girls Just Want to Have Fun"( 1985)," Savage Dawn"( 1985)," Sid and Nancy"( 1986)," Straight to Hell"( 1987)," Walker"( 1987)," Banzai Runner"( 1987)," Edward Scissorhands"( 1990)," Another You"( 1991)," Headless Body in Topless Bar"( 1995)," Best Men"( 1997)," Paris"( 2003) and" White Oleander"( 2002).
Alan Metter
Alan Metter( born August 19, 1933 in USA) is an American film director whose most notable credits include" Back to School" starring Rodney Dangerfield, and" Girls Just Want to Have Fun" with Sarah Jessica Parker.
He also produced and directed the 1983 television special" The Winds of Whoopie" for Steve Martin.
Madi Davis
Madi Anne Davis( born January 23, 1999) is an American singer- songwriter, who was a contestant on NBC's" The Voice".
She was a semi-finalist season nine and the longest- standing member of team Pharrell Williams.
Her song," Girls Just Want to Have Fun", performed on the show, charted on the" Billboard" magazine Hot 100 chart.
Lee Montgomery
Elliott Harcourt Montgomery( born November 3, 1961), known as Lee Montgomery, is a United States- based Canadian former actor.
He is best known for his role as a lonely little boy who befriends a pack of killer rats in the film" Ben"( 1972) and as Sarah Jessica Parker's hunky dance partner, Jeff Malene, in" Girls Just Want to Have Fun"( 1985).
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (film)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a 1985 American romantic comedy dance film directed by Alan Metter and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Montgomery, Morgan Woodward, Jonathan Silverman, Shannen Doherty, and Helen Hunt.
For many years, Comedy Central, Lifetime, USA Network, Lifetime Movie Network and ABC Family have aired the film.

Question: Are the directors of films City Of Fear (Film) and Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes