Question: Which film has the director who died first, The Crosby Case or The Private Life Of Helen Of Troy?

Gerald C. Duffy( 1896 – June 25, 1928) was a screenwriter of the silent film era, as well as a journalist, and short story writer and copyeditor. He is best known for his many contributions to Redbook magazine, which he edited, as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Title Writing in the 1st Academy Awards for the film" The Private Life of Helen of Troy". His prolific fiction career brought him to the attention of First National Pictures who hired him on as a writer. Gerald died in 1928 while dictating a script in Los Angeles, California. <SEP> Born in Hungary, where he began his career, he worked briefly in the Austrian and German film industries during the era of silent films, before being based in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930 for the first of his two brief periods there( the other was during World War II). The change led to a divorce from his first wife, the Hungarian film actress María Corda, who was unable to make the transition from silent films to" talkies" because of her strong Hungarian accent. From 1930, Korda was active in the British film industry, and soon became one of its leading figures. He was the founder of London Films and, post-war, the owner of British Lion Films, a film distribution company. Sir Alexander Korda( born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956) was a British film producer and director and screenwriter, who founded his own film production studios and film distribution company. Korda produced many outstanding classics of the British film industry, including" The Private Life of Henry VIIIRembrandtThings To Come The Thief of Baghdad" and" The Third Man". In 1942, Korda became the first filmmaker to receive a knighthood. <SEP> The Private Life of Helen of Troy is a 1927 American silent film about Helen of Troy based on the 1925 novel of the same name by John Erskine, and adapted to screen by Gerald Duffy. The film was directed by Alexander Korda and starred María Corda as Helen, Lewis Stone as Menelaus, and Ricardo Cortez as Paris. Coming at the end of the silent film era, it was nominated for an Academy Award in 1929, the year of the Awards' inception, in the category of Best Title Writing. Duffy died on 25 June 1928, and was the first person to be posthumously nominated for an Academy Award. That same year, the first" talkie The Jazz Singer", received an honorary award for introducing sound to film, and the category for which" The Private Life of Helen of Troy" was nominated was dropped by the second Academy Awards. Two sections from the beginning and end, running about 27 – 30 minutes in total, are reportedly all that survive of" The Private Life of Helen of Troy"; they are preserved by the British Film Institute. <SEP> The Crosby Case is a 1934 American pre-Code crime film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Warren B. Duff and Gordon Kahn. The film stars Wynne Gibson, Onslow Stevens, Richard" Skeets" Gallagher, Alan Dinehart, Warren Hymer, William Collier, Sr. and John Wray. The film was released on March 5, 1934, by Universal Pictures. <SEP> The Private Life of Cinema is a 2011 documentary by Quebec film director and producer Denys Desjardins. <SEP> Marin was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and died in Los Angeles, California. Edwin L. Marin (February 21, 1899 – May 2, 1951) was an American film director who directed 58 films between 1932 and 1951, working with Randolph Scott, Anna May Wong, John Wayne, Peter Lorre, George Raft, Bela Lugosi, Judy Garland, Eddie Cantor, and Hoagy Carmichael, among many others. He was married to actress Ann Morriss. They had three children: Denis Anthony, Reese Andrew and Randi Alexandra. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and broke into the industry as an assistant director at MGM. He was under contract to MGM for 15 years and RKO for five. When he died he was under contract to Warner Bros.