Question: Which film has the director died first, Madame Louise or Anastasia (1956 Film)?

Steven Ritch( 26 December 1921- 20 July 1995) was an American actor, perhaps best known for his lead role in the 1956 film," The Werewolf". <SEP> Maclean Rogers( 13 July 1899 – 4 January 1962) was a British film director and screenwriter. <SEP> Louise Juta, born" Louise( or Luise) Marx"( 14 November 1821 – 3 July 1893) was a bookseller and the sister of Karl Marx. <SEP> Set in interwar France, the film follows the story of a suicidal amnesiac( Ingrid Bergman), whose remarkable resemblance to the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia — the youngest daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, who is rumored to have survived the execution of her family — draws her into a plot devised by the former Russian White General Bounine( Yul Brynner) and his associates to swindle from the Grand Duchess an inheritance of £ 10 million. However, the ultimate hurdle to their plan is the exiled Russian aristocracy — in particular the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna( Helen Hayes) — whom their handpicked claimant must convince of her legitimacy if they wish for their scheme to succeed. The origins of" Anastasia" lie in a play written by Marcelle Maurette, which was in turn inspired by Anna Anderson, the most famous of the many Anastasia impostors who appeared after the death of the Imperial family in July 1918. Anastasia is a 1956 American historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and written by Arthur Laurents. <SEP> It is loosely based on the 1945 play" Madame Louise" by Vernon Sylvaine, which had featured Alfred Drayton and Robertson Hare, but was extensively reworked to suit the different stars of the film production. Madame Louise( also titled" The Madame Gambles"), is a 1951 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and produced by Ernest G. Roy and starring Richard Hearne, Petula Clark, Garry Marsh and Richard Gale. <SEP> He began his theatrical training at age 13 in Petrograd. Litvak was notable for directing little- known foreign actors to early fame, often winning them Academy Awards. Anatole Litvak( May 21, 1902 – December 15, 1974) was a Ukrainian- born, Lithuanian- American filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in various countries and languages. In 1936 he directed" Mayerling", a film which made Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux international stars. He returned Swedish star Ingrid Bergman to popularity with American audiences in 1956 with" Anastasia", which won her an Oscar. He directed Olivia de Havilland to an Academy Award nomination for" The Snake Pit" in 1948. He also directed Jean Gabin in his screen debut, and directed Elia Kazan in his earliest acting role," City for Conquest". Litvak directed" Confessions of a Nazi Spy" in 1939 starring Edward G. Robinson, which used actual newsreel footage from U.S. Nazi rallies. As a refugee from Nazi Germany, Litvak was among the few directors who tried to open Hollywood's eyes to the threat Germany posed to Europe and the world. During World War II, he enlisted and co-directed documentaries with Frank Capra, including" Why We Fight" films. His solo- directed," The Battle of Russia", in 1943, won numerous awards and was nominated for an Oscar. Because of Litvak's ability to speak Russian, German, and French, he supervised the filming of the D- Day Normandy landings. He also filmed aerial warfare with the U.S. Eighth Air Force. For his volunteer wartime efforts, he ended the war as a full colonel, receiving special awards from the governments of France, Britain, and the United States.