Question: How are Fred Guiol and Stuart Paton alike?

Context articles: Why Girls Love Sailors
Mummy's Boys
Ivan Moffat
The Nitwits
Fred Guiol
Stuart Paton
Kentucky Kernels
The Rainmakers (film)
Silly Billies
The Haunted Honeymoon

Why Girls Love Sailors is a comedy short silent film directed by Fred Guiol for Hal Roach Studios starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they had become the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy.
 It was shot during February 1927 and released July 17, 1927, by Pathé Exchange.
 It was considered a lost film until the 1980s.
Mummy's Boys is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and written by Jack Townley, Philip G. Epstein and Charles E. Roberts.
 The film stars Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Barbara Pepper, Moroni Olsen, Frank M. Thomas and Willie Best.
 The film was released on October 2, 1936, by RKO Pictures.
Ivan Romilly Moffat (18 February 1918 – 4 July 2002) was a British screenwriter, film producer and socialite who, with Fred Guiol, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's eponymous novel into the film "Giant" (1956).
 Moffat was the grandson of actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
The Nitwits is a 1935 American comedy film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay written by Fred Guiol and Al Boasberg, based on a story by Stuart Palmer.
 Released by RKO on June 7, 1933, the film stars the comedy duo of Wheeler & Woolsey (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey), with featured roles being filled by Fred Keating, Betty Grable, Evelyn Brent and Erik Rhodes.
Fred Guiol (February 17, 1898 – May 23, 1964) was an American film director and screenwriter.
 Guiol worked at the Hal Roach Studios for many years, and directed Laurel and Hardy's earliest short films, as their famous comic partnership gradually developed during 1927.
 Along with Ivan Moffat, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel "Giant" into the film "Giant".
Stuart Paton (23 July 1883 – 16 December 1944) was a British director, screenwriter and actor of the silent era.
 He directed 67 films between 1915 and 1938.
 He also wrote for 24 films between 1914 and 1927.
 Despite a sizable list of credits, Paton was never well-regarded, especially as a director.
Kentucky Kernels is a 1934 American comedy directed by George Stevens and starring the comedy duo of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.
 The screenplay was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Fred Guiol, from a story by Kalmar and Ruby.
The Rainmakers is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Fred Guiol from a screenplay by Grant Garrett and Leslie Goodwins, based on a story by Guiol and Albert Traynor.
 RKO Radio Pictures released the film on October 25, 1935, starring the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey) and Dorothy Lee.
Silly Billies is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Fred Guiol from a screenplay by Al Boasberg and Jack Townley, based on a story by Guiol and Thomas Lennon.
 The film was the twentieth feature for the comedy duo of Wheeler and Woolsey (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey), and also stars Dorothy Lee, who had been in a number of their films.
 It was released by RKO Radio Pictures on March 20, 1936.
The Haunted Honeymoon (1925) is a silent film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon and Janet Gaynor, in one of her first films.
 It was produced by Hal Roach and released by Pathé Exchange.