Question: Do both films The Band Wagon and Shadows On The Range have the directors from the same country?

<P0-S0> Shadows on the Stairs is a 1941 American film directed by D. Ross Lederman. <P0-S1> It is based on Frank Vosper's play" Murder on the Second Floor". <P0-S2> The British subsidiary of Warner Brothers had previously produced a film adaptation of the work in 1932. <SEP> <P1-S0> The film stars Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Jan Bryant, Jack Perrin, John Merton and Marshall Reed. <P1-S1> Shadows on the Range is a 1946 American Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Adele Buffington. <P1-S2> The film was released on October 16, 1946, by Monogram Pictures. <SEP> <P2-S0> It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway show will restart his career. <P2-S1> However, the play's director wants to make it a pretentious retelling of the" Faust" legend and brings in a prima ballerina who clashes with the star. <P2-S2> Along with" Singin' in the Rain"( 1952), it is regarded as one of the finest of the Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer musicals, although it was only a modest box- office success on first release. <P2-S3> The songs were written by the team of composer Arthur Schwartz and lyricist Howard Dietz. <P2-S4> Schwartz was a prolific Hollywood composer who teamed with numerous lyricists over the years, while Dietz, a studio publicist, generally collaborated with Schwartz. <P2-S5> Some of the songs in the film had been created for the original 1931 Broadway musical by Schwartz and Dietz which was also called" The Band Wagon," with a book by George S. Kaufman and starring Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. <P2-S6> The movie's dances and musical numbers were staged by Michael Kidd. <P2-S7> Astaire's early number in the film," A Shine On Your Shoes" was actually written for a 1932 Broadway revue with music and lyrics by Dietz and Schwartz called" Flying Colors". <P2-S8> The Band Wagon is a 1953 American musical- comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. <P2-S9> It had originally been performed by the dancing team of Buddy and Vilma Ebsen. <P2-S10> In the movie version of" The Band Wagon", the song was reworked to show off Astaire's musical talents. <P2-S11> The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, Color, Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay. <P2-S12> Screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who received the nomination for the screenplay, patterned the film's characters Lester and Lily Marton after themselves, although the fictional characters were a married couple and Comden and Green were not romantically involved. <P2-S13> In 1995," The Band Wagon" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". <P2-S14> In 2006, this film ranked# 17 on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals. <SEP> <P3-S0> Lambert Harwood Hillyer( July 8, 1893 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director and screenwriter. <SEP> <P4-S0> Based on the success of" Yojimbo", Kurosawa's next film," Sanjuro"( 1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film. <P4-S1> In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family" mon". <SEP> <P5-S0> He directed the classic movie musicals "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), "An American in Paris" (1951), "The Band Wagon" (1953), and "Gigi" (1958). <P5-S1> Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director. <P5-S2> "An American in Paris" and "Gigi" both won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Minnelli winning Best Director for "Gigi". <P5-S3> In addition to having directed some of the best known musicals of his day, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas. <P5-S4> He was married to Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; the couple were the parents of Liza Minnelli.