Question: Which film has the director who died earlier, The Toast Of Death or The Famous Mrs. Fair?

The film is based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes that had starred Blanche Bates in the 1919 theatre season. The Famous Mrs. Fair is a 1923 American silent drama film produced by Louis B. Mayer, distributed through Metro Pictures, and directed by Fred Niblo. Brief behind- the- scenes production footage is extant in the recently restored" Souls for Sale"( 1923). A copy is held at George Eastman House, donated by MGM for preservation. <SEP> The Toast of Death is a 1915 silent era drama/ romance motion picture released by Mutual Film Corporation starring Louise Glaum, Harry Keenan, and Herschel Mayall. Although contemporary sources list Thomas Ince as the director, modern sources give directorial credit to Scott Sidney. One of the early five- reel feature length silent movies," The Toast of Death" was filmed at Inceville Studio in Topanga Canyon near the Pacific Ocean. Directed by Thomas H. Ince and produced by the New York Motion Picture Company, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan. The film marked Glaum's first role as a" vamp" and her first starring role in the new features of the day. <SEP> Ince was known as the" Father of the Western" and was responsible for making over 800 films. He revolutionized the motion picture industry by creating the first major Hollywood studio facility and invented movie production by introducing the" assembly line" system of filmmaking. Thomas Harper Ince( November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent film producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He was the first mogul to build his own film studio dubbed" Inceville" in Palisades Highlands. Ince was also instrumental in developing the role of the producer in motion pictures. Two of his films," The Italian"( 1915), for which he wrote the screenplay, and" Civilization"( 1916), which he directed, were selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. He later entered into a partnership with D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett to form the Triangle Motion Picture Company, whose studios are the present- day site of Sony Pictures. He then built a new studio about a mile from Triangle, which is now the site of Culver Studios. Ince's untimely death at the height of his career, after he became severely ill aboard the private yacht of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, has caused much speculation, although the official cause of his death was heart failure. <SEP> James Gerrie Forbes( September 2, 1871 – May 26, 1938) was a Canadian playwright who worked as a Hollywood movie screenwriter. " The Chorus Lady" and" The Famous Mrs. Fair" were his best known plays. <SEP> The Toast of New Orleans is a 1950 MGM musical film directed by Norman Taurog and choreographed by Eugene Loring. It stars Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, David Niven, J. Carrol Naish, James Mitchell and Rita Moreno. The film was made in the wake of" That Midnight Kiss", Lanza's successful film debut, as an opportunity for Lanza to sing on the big screen again. <SEP> Fred Niblo( born Frederick Liedtke; January 6, 1874 – November 11, 1948) was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.