Question: Which film has the director died first, At The Villa Rose (1920 Film) or Veiled Aristocrats?

He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year. Maurice Elvey( 11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was the most prolific film director in British history. He also produced more than fifty films- his own as well as films directed by others. <SEP> The Mystery of the Villa Rose( French: Le mystère de la villa rose) is a 1930 French mystery film directed by René Hervil and Louis Mercanton and starring Léon Mathot, Simone Vaudry and Louis Baron fils. <SEP> Gertrude Sanborn( 1881–1928) was an American author who lived in Milwaukee. She attained some notice for her novel" Veiled Aristocrats"( 1922), which dealt with race relations more directly than was fashionable at the time. The novel belonged to the genre of" passing" stories, of African Americans passing for white, and featured an interracial romance set partly in Chicago. The novel's title was borrowed in 1932 by pioneer African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux for his talkie" Veiled Aristocrats", a remake of" House Behind the Cedars", his 1924 silent film based on the novel by that name by Charles Chesnutt. Micheaux's" Veiled Aristocrats" also focused on" passing" and interracial relationships, but owed more to its source in Chesnutt than to Sanborn's novel. In 1920 Sanborn published an optimistic riposte to Mary MacLane's 1917 memoir" I, Mary MacLane" under the title" I, Citizen of Eternity". <SEP> Although the short- lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African- American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film, and has been described as" the most successful African- American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century". He produced both silent films and sound films when the industry changed to incorporate speaking actors. Oscar Devereaux Micheaux( January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an African- American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. <SEP> At the Villa Rose is a 1920 British silent detective film based on the 1910 novel" At the Villa Rose" by British politician and author A.E.W. Mason( considered his most famous mystery). A print of the film survives at the British Film Institute archives. The novel, which introduced the fictional character of French Police Inspector Hanaud, was so popular, it was filmed four times, the 1920 silent film being the first. The other three film versions were sound versions, two appearing in 1930, and the last in 1940. The feature was directed by Maurice Elvey and stars Manora Thew and Langhorn Burton. Although the film is mainly a murder mystery, there are some horror- oriented moments such as a creepy seance scene and a somewhat violent strangulation scene in it as well. <SEP> The film deals with the theme of" passing" by mixed- race African Americans to avoid racial discrimination, and is a remake of" The House Behind the Cedars"( 1927), based on a novel by the same name published in 1900 by Charles W. Chesnutt. Veiled Aristocrats is a 1932 American Pre-Code race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux.