Question: Are both directors of films The Pit And The Pendulum (1913 Film) and How Sweet It Is! from the same country?

William Gerald Paris( July 25, 1925 – March 31, 1986) professionally known as Jerry Paris, was an American actor and director best known for playing Jerry Helper, the dentist and next- door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie, on" The Dick Van Dyke Show". <SEP> How Sweet It Is! is a 1968 comedy film starring James Garner and Debbie Reynolds, with a supporting cast including Terry- Thomas and Paul Lynde. Garner plays a photographer who accompanies his wife and teenage son on an assignment in Paris, with both husband and wife struggling to stay faithful under extreme temptation. Jimmy Webb wrote the title song, and Patrick Williams scored the sound track. The film was written by producers Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson( adapting Muriel Resnik's novel" The Girl in the Turqoise Bikini") and directed by Jerry Paris. <SEP> She was the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sync- sound system, and with color- tinting, interracial casting, and special effects. Alice Guy or Alice Guy- Blaché( July 1, 1873 – March 24, 1968) was a French pioneer filmmaker, active from the late 19th century, and one of the very first to make a narrative fiction film. She was artistic director and a co-founder of Solax Studios in Flushing, New York. In 1912, Solax invested$ 100,000 for a new studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, the center of American filmmaking prior to the establishment of Hollywood. That year, she made the film" A Fool and His Money", probably the first to have an all- African- American cast. The film is now at the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute. <SEP> Victoria Summer( born 15 December 1981) is an English actress, model and singer. After beginning her career in horror films Summer transitioned into more mainstream roles starting with the Brian Herzlinger film" How Sweet It Is". She played Julie Andrews in" Saving Mr. Banks", a 2013 film about the making of" Mary Poppins". <SEP> The Blood Demon( Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel in West Germany), also known as The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism, The Snake Pit and the Pendulum, and Castle of the Walking Dead, is a 1967 West German horror film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Christopher Lee, Karin Dor, and Lex Barker. The film, written by Manfred R. Köhler, is based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story" The Pit and the Pendulum" and concerns the saga of Count Regula( Lee) who, after being drawn and quartered for murdering 12 maidens, returns to life seeking revenge. The film was advertised in Rhode Island newspapers as Crimson Demon, due to a practice at the time of deleting the word" Blood" from film titles. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gabriel Pellon and Rolf Zehetbauer. <SEP> The Pit and the Pendulum is a three-reel film adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe short story of the same name, directed, and produced by pioneering French filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché through her American company Solax Studios in 1913.