Question: Are the directors of films A Southern Yankee and The Desert'S Price both from the same country?

It is also known as The Spy. A Southern Yankee is a 1948 American comedy film, directed by Edward Sedgwick, starring Red Skelton and Arlene Dahl, and released by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer. A semi-remake of Buster Keaton's" The General"( 1926), Skelton plays a Union soldier who spies on the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Keaton served as technical adviser on the film. <SEP> Southern Yankee may refer to: <SEP> It is based on the 1924 novel" The Desert's Price" by William MacLeod Raine. The Desert's Price is a 1925 American Western film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by Charles Darnton. The film stars Buck Jones, Florence Gilbert, Edna Marion, Ernest Butterworth, Arthur Housman and Montagu Love. The film was released on December 13, 1925, by Fox Film Corporation. <SEP> The Desert Fathers( along with Desert Mothers) were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt beginning around the third century AD. The" Apophthegmata Patrum" is a collection of the wisdom of some of the early desert monks and nuns, in print as" Sayings of the Desert Fathers". The most well known was Anthony the Great, who moved to the desert in AD 270–271 and became known as both the father and founder of desert monasticism. By the time Anthony died in AD 356, thousands of monks and nuns had been drawn to living in the desert following Anthony's example—his biographer, Athanasius of Alexandria, wrote that" the desert had become a city." The Desert Fathers had a major influence on the development of Christianity. The desert monastic communities that grew out of the informal gathering of hermit monks became the model for Christian monasticism. The eastern monastic tradition at Mount Athos and the western Rule of Saint Benedict both were strongly influenced by the traditions that began in the desert. All of the monastic revivals of the Middle Ages looked to the desert for inspiration and guidance. Much of Eastern Christian spirituality, including the Hesychast movement, had its roots in the practices of the Desert Fathers. Even religious renewals such as the German evangelicals and Pietists in Pennsylvania, the" Devotio Moderna" movement, and the Methodist Revival in England are seen by modern scholars as being influenced by the Desert Fathers. <SEP> Woodbridge Strong He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Director for" The Thin Man" and" San Francisco", and directed four actors to Oscar nominations: William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Norma Shearer, and Robert Morley. Known as a reliable craftsman who made his films on schedule and under budget, he earned the name" One Take Woody" for his quick and efficient style of filming. " W. S." Van Dyke II( Woody)( March 21, 1889 – February 5, 1943) was an American film director and writer who made several successful early sound films, including" Tarzan the Ape Man" in 1932," The Thin Man" in 1934," San Francisco" in 1936, and six popular musicals with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. <SEP> Edward Sedgwick( November 7, 1889 – March 7, 1953) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer.