Question: Are the directors of films King of the Hotel and Along Came Jones (film) both from the same country?

The historic Francis Marion Hotel at 387 King St., Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the tallest buildings in Charleston. The hotel, named for the Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, was built by local investors at a cost of $1.5 million from plans by noted New York architect William Lee Stoddart. The hotel was built in 1924 by the Marion Square Realty Co., a group headed by former mayor of Charleston T.T. Hyde. The original ownership group formed on March 13, 1920. When the hotel opened on February 7, 1924, the Francis Marion was the largest and grandest hotel in the Carolinas. In 1952, the hotel became the first fully air-conditioned hotel in Charleston. The Jack Tar Hotels Corp. bought the hotel in 1954. The hotel underwent a major renovation in 1955-1956 which included the creation of the Swamp Fox Room, a ground-floor restaurant named for the nickname of Francis Marion. During that work, the ground floor of the exterior was changed to red granite. In 1961, the hotel announced plans to build a three-story parking deck to the north of the hotel on King Street according to plans drawn by Augustus Constantine. The plans were never completed. Starting upon his retirement as the president of The Citadel in 1965 until 1975, Gen. Mark W. Clark lived with his wife in the penthouse of the hotel. In 1976, the hotel was doing poorly, and its owners were considering whether to sell out. At the time, the hotel accounted for about 25% of all of the hotel rooms on the peninsula. In 1975, the owners had considered converting the hotel into a home for the elderly. In 1977, a group of investors considered buying the hotel from Jack Tar Hotels, Inc. The owners at that time had considered renovating the hotel, and the City of Charleston had considered building a parking garage next to the hotel as part of a deal. However, the cost of restoring the buildings as a first-class destination, about $3 million, was too high. In December 1984, Hospitality Associates of Charleston bought the hotel for $8.5 million. The hotel operated first as the Francis Marion Ramada Hotel and then as the Radisson Francis Marion Hotel. Hospitality Associates borrowed heavily from Prudential Insurance Corp. and also from early owner Dr. Julian Youmans who had acquired the hotel in 1981. Starting in April 1986, Hospitality Associates of Charleston began falling behind in payments on its debt. In 1988, Prudential Insurance Corp. bought the hotel at a public sale for $6 million. Hospitality Associates of Charleston, the previous owner, had been unable to stay current on its payments to the successful bidder. In 1989, shortly after Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, a group of investors bought the hotel for $3.2 million. The new owners had a $12 million restoration plan, but a downturn in the economy prevented them from financing the plans. Mayor Joseph P. Riley intended to use the hotel as a landmark to prompt the renovation of upper King St. (the area between Calhoun St. and Cannon St.). He lobbied local banks to finance the plans, and the banks eventually contributed $5.5 million in financing; the city itself ponied up more than $4 million. In 1991, the City of Charleston considered buying the hotel for $3,420,000 and leasing it to the College of Charleston for student housing. The hotel was meticulously restored in 1996 with a $12 million National Trust for Historic Preservation award winning restoration. It reopened as The Francis Marion Hotel - A Clarion Hotel. The hotel went through a second round of renovations in 1997, costing $2 million, and it was renamed The Westin Francis Marion on June 18, 1998. The hotel left Westin on January 1, 2003 and has operated independently since then. The hotel currently has 226 guest rooms and suites. <SEP> Carmine Gallone( 10 September 1885 – 4 April 1973) was an early acclaimed Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered one of Italian cinema's top early directors, he directed over 120 films in his fifty- year career between 1913 and 1963. <SEP> Robert Watts( born 23 May 1938) is a British film producer who is best known for his involvement with the" Star Wars" and" Indiana Jones" film series. <SEP> It was based on a play by Henry Kistemaeckers. King of the Hotel( French: Le roi des palaces) is a 1932 British- French comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Jules Berry, Betty Stockfeld and Armand Dranem. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff. A separate English- language version" King of the Ritz" was also made. <SEP> The film was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel" Useless Cowboy" by Alan Le May, and directed by Stuart Heisler. It was the only feature film produced by Cooper during his long film career. Much of the film was shot at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California. Along Came Jones is a 1945 American Western comedy film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea. Cooper had previously worked at the movie ranch in" The Lives of a Bengal Lancer"( 1935) and other productions. Cooper had a Western town built at the movie ranch for" Along Came Jones"; this Western set was subsequently used in many other productions over the next 20 years and became a fixture in B- Westerns in particular. <SEP> He was a son of Luther Albert Heisler( 1855- 1916), a carpenter, and Frances Baldwin Heisler( 1857- 1935). He worked as a motion picture editor from 1921 to 1936, then worked as film director for the rest of his career. Stuart Heisler( December 5, 1896 – August 21, 1979) was an American film and television director. He directed the 1944 propaganda film" The Negro Soldier", a documentary- style recruitment piece targeting African- Americans. He received an Oscar nomination in 1949 for his contribution to the visual effects of the film" Tulsa".