Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Tugboat Annie Sails Again is a 1940 American comedy romance film directed by Lewis Seiler.
It is a sequel to" Tugboat Annie"( 1933).
Marjorie Rambeau took over the late Marie Dressler's role, and the supporting cast included Alan Hale, Sr., Jane Wyman, and Ronald Reagan.
Lewis Seiler
Lewis Seiler( September 30, 1891 – January 8, 1963) was an American film director.
He directed 88 films between 1923 and 1958.
He was born in New York, New York and died in Hollywood, California.
Fanny (1932 film)
Fanny is a 1932 French romance and drama film directed by Marc Allégret, based on the play by Marcel Pagnol.
It is the second part in the" Marseillaise" film trilogy that started with" Marius( 1931)" and concluded with" César( 1936)".
Like" Marius", the film was a box office success in France and is still considered to be a classic of French cinema.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Tugboat Annie
Tugboat Annie is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, written by Norman Reilly Raine and Zelda Sears, and starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle- aged couple who operate a tugboat.
Dressler and Beery were MGM's most popular screen team at that time, having recently made the bittersweet" Min and Bill"( 1930) together, for which Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
The boisterous Tugboat Annie character first appeared in a series of stories in the" Saturday Evening Post" written by the author Norman Reilly Raine which were supposedly based on the life of Thea Foss of Tacoma, Washington.
There is also a theory that her character is loosely based on Kate A. Sutton, secretary and dispatcher for the Providence Steamboat Company during the 1920s.
" Tugboat Annie" also features Robert Young and Maureen O'Sullivan as the requisite pair of young lovers.
Captain Clarence Howden piloted Annie's tugboat Narcissus( real name" Wallowa"), which was owned by Foss Tug and Barge of Tacoma and had been leased to MGM for the movie.
Howden's son Richard Howden is seen rolling rope during the credits.
Filmed in Seattle, Washington," Tugboat Annie" used local residents as extras, including then- mayor John F. Dore.
The tugboat used in the film, renamed" Arthur Foss" in 1934, is the oldest wooden tugboat afloat in the world and remains preserved by Northwest Seaport in Seattle.
La Marseillaise (film)
La Marseillaise is a( 1938) film about the early part of the French Revolution.
The film was directed by Jean Renoir.
" La Marseillaise" is shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI each showing their own small problems.
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir( 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.
As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s.
His films" La Grande Illusion"( 1937) and" The Rules of the Game"( 1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made.
He was ranked by the BFI's" Sight& Sound" poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time.
Among numerous honors accrued during his lifetime, he received a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975 for his contribution to the motion picture industry.
Renoir was the son of the painter Pierre- Auguste Renoir.
He was one of the first filmmakers to be known as an" auteur".
Satan Town
Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey.
Prints of the film have survived.
Norman Reilly Raine
Norman Reilly Raine( 23 June 1894 – 19 July 1971) was an American screenwriter, creator of" Tugboat Annie" and winner of an Oscar for the screenplay of" The Life of Emile Zola"( 1937).
Captain Tugboat Annie
Captain Tugboat
Annie is a 1945 second sequel to the classic" Tugboat Annie"( 1933), this time starring Jane Darwell as Annie and Edgar Kennedy as Horatio Bullwinkle.
The movie was directed by Phil Rosen, and is also known as Tugboat Annie's Son.
The original film starred Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, and Maureen O'Sullivan.
The first sequel, called" Tugboat Annie Sails Again", was released in 1940 starring Marjorie Rambeau as Annie, Alan Hale, Sr. as Horatio Bullwinkle, Jane Wyman, and Ronald Reagan.
There is also a 1957 Canadian- filmed television series," The Adventures of Tugboat Annie", starring Minerva Urecal.

Question: Do both films Tugboat Annie Sails Again and La Marseillaise (Film) have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no