Question: Which film whose director was born first, The Ghost Breakers or Two On The Steppes?

The Ghost Breaker is a 1922 American silent horror comedy film about haunted houses and ghosts. It was produced by Famous Players- Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Alfred E. Green and starred Wallace Reid in one of his last screen roles. The story, based on the 1909 play" The Ghost Breaker" by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, had been released on film in 1914( bearing the same name), directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. The 1922 version is now considered lost. Two of the actors in this film, Snitz Edwards and Arthur Edmund Carewe, later appeared together in the 1925 Lon Chaney silent classic" The Phantom of the Opera". Two uncredited" ghosts" in the cast, Mervyn LeRoy and Richard Arlen, later went on to successful film careers. " The Ghost Breaker" would be remade in the sound era as" The Ghost Breakers"( 1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and later as" Scared Stiff"( 1953) starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. <SEP> He was a leading interpreter of Russian classics during the Era of Stagnation and" received numerous awards for creative excellence". His writings on theatre were published in English under the titles" The Joy of Rehearsal: Reflections on Interpretation and Practice" and" The Craft of Rehearsal: Further Reflections on Interpretation and Practice". Anatoly Vasilievich Efros( July 3, 1925, Kharkiv — January 13, 1987, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director. <SEP> Two on the Steppes is a 1964 Soviet drama film directed by Anatoly Efros. <SEP> The Ghost Breaker was a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel and based on the Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players- Lasky banner. " The Ghost Breaker" was possibly the first film in a long line of haunted- house horror films with the same story. A 1922 remake of the same name starred Wallace Reid and Lila Lee. The original film was also remade as" The Ghost Breakers"( 1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and as" Scared Stiff"( 1953) with Martin and Lewis. The film is now considered lost. <SEP> The film was adapted by Walter DeLeon from the play" The Ghost Breaker" by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. Along with" Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" and Hope and Goddard's own" The Cat and the Canary", it is cited as a prime example of the classic Hollywood horror- comedy. The Ghost Breakers is a 1940 American horror comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. <SEP> George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of film history. Relatively few of Marshall's films are well-known today, with "Destry Rides AgainThe Blue DahliaThe Sheepman", and "How the West Was Won" being the biggest exceptions. Marshall co-directed " How the West Was Won" with John Ford and Henry Hathaway, handling the railroad segment, which featured a celebrated buffalo stampede sequence. While Marshall worked on almost all kinds of films imaginable, he started his career in the early silent period doing mostly Westerns, a genre he never completely abandoned. In the 1930s, he established a reputation for comedy, directing Laurel and Hardy in three classic films, and also working on a variety of comedies for Fox (Many of his films at Fox were destroyed in a vault fire in 1937). Later in his career, he was particularly sought after for comedies. He did around half a dozen films each with Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis, and also worked with W. C. Fields, Jackie Gleason, and Will Rogers.