Question: Are the directors of both films My Big Fat Greek Wedding and The Pride of St. Louis from the same country?

The Pride of St. Louis is a 1952 biographical film of the life of Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean. It starred Dan Dailey as Dean, Joanne Dru as his wife, and Richard Crenna as his brother Paul "Daffy" Dean, also a major league pitcher. Guy Trosper was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story. Much of the plotline is reasonably close to the facts of Dizzy Dean's life and baseball career; however, the climax is fictionalized, based on an on-air comment he made regarding his use of the word "Ain'tA lot of folks who ain't sayin' 'ain't,' ain't eatin'. It was directed by Harmon Jones. So, Teach, you learn 'em English, and I'll learn 'em baseball. " The story arc covers Dean's rise to pitching superstardom, the early end of his career, and his redemption through radio broadcasting. The screenplay was the last by Herman J. Mankiewicz, who earlier had co-written the script for the Lou Gehrig biography, "The Pride of the Yankees". <SEP> Lainie Kazan( born May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for" St. Elsewhere" and the 1993 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for" My Favorite Year". She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role in" My Favorite Year"( 1982). Kazan played Maria Portokalos in" My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and its sequel film" My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2". <SEP> Louis Mandylor( born Elias Theodosopoulos; Greek: Ηλίας Θεοδοσόπουλος; 13 September 1966) is a Greek- Australian film and television actor. He is best recognized as Nick Portokalos in" My Big Fat Greek Wedding"( 2002), a role he reprised in the sequel" My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2"( 2016). <SEP> The film received generally positive reviews from critics and, at the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 independent romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick and written by Nia Vardalos, who also stars in the film as Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos, a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with non-Greek upper middle class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Ian Miller. A sleeper hit, the film became the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time, and grossed $241.4 million in North America, despite never reaching number one at the box office during its release. It was the highest-grossing film to accomplish this feat for 14 years until the animated film "Sing" grossed $268 million in 2016. The film spawned a franchise, which inspired the short-lived 2003 TV series "My Big Fat Greek Life" and a film sequel titled "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2", was released on March 25, 2016. <SEP> He is credited as the editor for about 20 feature films through 1950. In the middle of his career, he became a film and television director. Harmon Clifford Jones( June 3, 1911 – July 10, 1972) was a Canadian- born film editor and director who worked for many years at the 20th Century- Fox studio in Southern California. Between 1951 and 1969, he directed about fifteen feature films as well as dozens of episodes of popular television series of the 1950s and 1960s. <SEP> Joel Zwick( born January 11, 1942) is an American film director, television director, and theater director. He worked on the television series" Perfect Strangers Full House", and" Family Matters", and directed the films" My Big Fat Greek WeddingSecond Sight", and" Fat Albert".