The Warrior Strain
The Warrior Strain is a 1919 British silent war film directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring Sydney Wood, Harry Agar Lyons and J. Edwards Barker.
The future Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales, appeared in the film.
During the First World War, a group of British cadets thwart the plans of a German agent.
It bears strong similarities to" The Power of Right" also directed by Thornton and featuring the Prince of Wales, which was released the same year.
Esther Imbert
Esther Imbert( 1570- 1593), was a French noblewoman.
She was the mistress of Henry IV of France in 1586- 1588.
She had a child with the king, Gideon( 1588- 1589).
She was accepted by Diane d'Andoins as a mistress of secondary rank.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni( born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956) is an Indian- American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
Her short story collection," Arranged Marriage" won an American Book Award in 1995, and two of her novels(" The Mistress of Spices" and" Sister of My Heart") as well as a short story" The Word Love" were adapted into films.
" Mistress of Spices" was short- listed for the Orange Prize.
Currently," Sister of My Heart, Oleander Girl,," and" One Amazing Thing" have all been optioned to be made into movies or TV serials.
Divakaruni's works are largely set in India and the United States, and often focus on the experiences of South Asian immigrants.
She writes for children as well as adults and has published novels in multiple genres, including realistic fiction, historical fiction, magical realism, myth and fantasy.
The Mistress of Spices
The Mistress of Spices is a 2005 film by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a screenplay by Gurinder Chadha and Berges.
It is based upon the novel" Mistress of Spices" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
The film stars Aishwarya Rai.
The soundtrack was created by Craig Pruess, who also contributed to the" Bend It Like Beckham" soundtrack.
Paul Mayeda Berges
Paul Mayeda Berges( born September 11, 1968 in Torrance, California) is an American screenwriter and director.
Of Japanese and Basque ancestry, Berges attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied film and graduated in 1990.
He began his career by making documentaries( on the Japanese American community) and teaching film production( to high school students).
He has collaborated with his wife, British- Indian director Gurinder Chadha, on a number of films and made his directorial debut in 2005 with" The Mistress of Spices", based on the novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Berges officially met Chadha in March 1994, while he was working as a festival director at the San Francisco Asian American International Film Festival.
But they had also briefly met in September 1993.
They married in the mid-nineties and have twins together; a boy named Ronak and a girl named Kumiko( born June 7, 2007).
Zuzanna Orłowska
Zuzanna Orłowska( died after 1583), was the mistress of Sigismund II Augustus.
Their relationship lasted for seven years.
The Power of Right
The Power of Right is a 1919 British silent war film directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring James Knight, Evelyn Boucher and Frank Petley.
The film had strong similarities to" The Warrior Strain" also featuring the Prince of Wales and directed by Thornton.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Floyd Martin Thornton
Floyd Martin Thornton (4 November 1884–1 April 1956) was an American screenwriter and film director, often credited as F. Martin Thornton.
Born in 1884 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he worked for some years in England.
In 1915 he married the British actress Evelyn Boucher at Steyning in West Sussex.
They had two sons, both born in England: Edward E. Martin (1916–2010) and Paul Mulford Martin (1921–1994).
In 1925 he, his wife and two sons left the UK for America, where they all remained for the rest of their lives.
He died in April 1956 in Orange, California in the USA.
María de Padilla
María Díaz de Padilla (1334 –Seville, July 1361) was the mistress of King Peter of Castile.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, The Mistress Of Spices or The Warrior Strain?
Answer: The Warrior Strain