Question: Are the directors of both films Up New Generation and The Romance of an Old Maid from the same country?

The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1935 Pulitzer Prize- winning play of the same name by Zoë Akins, which was adapted from the 1924 Edith Wharton novella" The Old Maid: the Fifties"( taken from the collection of novellas" Old New York"). <SEP> William Simpson Potter( 21 January 1805 – 16 January 1879) was a 19th- century English author. From available information, Potter was a friend of Henry Spencer Ashbee, a merchant, bibliographer, bibliophile, authority on the life and works of Cervantes, and collector of erotic materials. Ashbee describes Potter as a" shrewd business man, the ardent collector, and the enthusiastic traveller". According to the bibliography- catalogue," British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books," Potter is author of two books of letters describing the Prince of Wales' visit to India in 1875 – 1876. The British Museum, now the British Library, has these works in their holdings. " A Letter from the East: from William S. Potter, to his niece, Mrs. Addison Potter" bears a publication date of 1877- according to the online catalog record of the British Library. Also in the holdings of the British Library is" Letters from India during H. R. H. the Prince of Wales visit in 1875 – 6, from William S. Potter to his sister," which dates from 1876. Again, according to this British Museum source, Potter is the author of the Victorian erotic novel," The Romance of Lust",( 1873 – 1876) although the published novel lists its author as" Anonymous". Because of the anonymous authorship, this novel is alternately attributed to Potter and to another English writer of erotic novels, Edward Sellon( 1818? – 1866). For example, the Library of Congress catalog record for the 1968 Grove Press edition of" The Romance of Lust" includes the brief note:" Attributed to Capt. Edward Sellon. Cf." Bibliotheca arcana." 1885." The" Bibliotheca arcana" is a bibliography of erotic literature from the late 19th century. Henry Spencer Ashbee partially attributes" The Romance of Lust" to Potter. Ashbee comments that, The Romance of Lust" is not the produce of a single pen, but consists of several tales,'orient pearls at random strung,' woven into a connected narrative by a gentleman, perfectly well known to the present generation of literary eccentrics and collectors, as having amassed one of the most remarkable collections of erotic pictures and bric- a- brac ever brought together." Comparing the text of" Letters from India during H. R. H. the Prince of Wales visit in 1875- 6, from William S. Potter to his sister" with the text of" The Romance of Lust" reveals numerous stylistic affinities, whereas a comparison of Sellon's" The New Epicurean" and" The Adventures of a School- Boy" shows fewer similarities in authorial style. ( The Library of Congress has all of these volumes within its collections.) The character' Mr Chambon' in the anonymously authored" The Sins of the Cities of the Plain; or, The Recollections of a Mary- Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism" may be based on Potter, who was a friend of its publisher William Lazenby. In the book Mr Chambon resides at" in the Cornwall Mansions close to Baker Street Station", while from about 1877 until his death Potter lived at Cornwall Residences, a now- demolished block of nondescript Victorian flats near the Station. According to Ashbee, Potter" ... died January 16, 1879, in his 74th year, at Catania, whither he had repaired for the sake of his health". <SEP> The Romance of an Old Maid is a 1912 American short film directed by Otis Turner and starring King Baggot, Rolinda Bainbridge( in the title role) and Gladys Egan. It was produced by the Independent Moving Pictures Company of New York. <SEP> Up New Generation is a new version of the" Up Series", following the lives of a group of individuals who were seven years old at the turn of the millennium. The series is directed by Julian Farino and began with" 7 Up 2000", first broadcast in April 2000. The second instalment," 14 Up 2000", aired in two parts on BBC One in September 2007. " 21 Up New Generation" was broadcast in September 2014 in two parts. <SEP> Farino was born and raised in London and educated at Cambridge University. He began directing film documentaries at Granada Television in England, making a sequence of observational films about drag queens, young classical musicians, children's entertainers and boxers. " They Call Us Nutters" was a portrait of life on a ward of Ashworth Maximum Security Hospital, and" A Winter's Tale" described life in the coldest inhabited place on earth, Oymyakon in Eastern Siberia. In 2000 he directed" 7 Up 2000", a continuation of the multi-award winning documentary series, featuring 7- year- olds from all over Britain- a project that continued with" 14 Up in 2007". His film drama in the UK includes an adaptation of Charles Dickens's" Our Mutual Friend", which won four BAFTAs including Best Drama;" Bob and Rose", a romantic comedy which won Best Series at The British Comedy Awards; and" Flesh and Blood", starring Christopher Eccleston, which won the Prix Europa for Best Film. Other credits in the UK include" The Last Yellow" for BBC Films starring Samantha Morton and Mark Addy, and" Byron", a biopic of the romantic poet, starring Jonny Lee Miller and Vanessa Redgrave. Farino went to the United States in 2004 to work for HBO, and directed the majority of episodes of the first three seasons of" Entourage". He stayed to work on the series" Big Love" and" Rome", and has received four Emmy and three DGA nominations.' He was executive producer and director of the HBO television show" How to Make It in America" for its two series. For" Entourage: The Sundance Kids" he was nominated in category" Best Directing for a Comedy". In 2010, Farino directed" The Oranges" starring Hugh Laurie and Leighton Meester, his first feature film in the US. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released on 5 October 2012. Farino was based in Los Angeles, where he lived with his wife, actress Branka Katić, and their two sons, Louis and Joe before his return to the UK. Julian Farino is an English film and television producer and director, who was sports editor of" The Guinness Book of Records" and is now perhaps best known for his work as director of" Entourage" and producer of various films in the United Kingdom. During the 1980s, Farino also appeared as a co-presenter on Record Breakers, alongside Fiona Kennedy and main presenter Roy Castle. <SEP> Otis Turner( November 29, 1862 – March 28, 1918) was an American director, screenwriter and producer. Between 1908 and 1917, he directed 133 films and wrote 40 scenarios. He was born in Fairfield, Indiana, and died in Los Angeles. The producer/ director Otis Werner in L. Frank Baum's" Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West" is a send- up of Turner, who had adapted Baum's works into films, first in collaboration with Baum, then legally but without Baum's approval.