Question: Which film has the director who was born first, Mahogany (Film) or Peter Ibbetson?

The Motown founder Gordy took over the film direction after British filmmaker Tony Richardson was dismissed from the film. Mahogany is a 1975 American romantic drama film directed by Berry Gordy and produced by Motown Productions. " Mahogany" stars Diana Ross as Tracy Chambers, a struggling fashion design student who rises to become a popular fashion designer in Rome. Fresh from the success of" Lady Sings the Blues", this film served as Ross' follow- up feature film. It was released on October 8, 1975. <SEP> He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest- earning African- American business for decades. As a songwriter, he composed or co-composed a number of hits including" Lonely Teardrops Shop Around" and" Do You Love Me", all of which topped the US R&B charts, as well as the international hit Reet Petite. As part of The Corporation he wrote a number of hit songs for The Jackson 5, including" I Want You Back" and" ABC". As a record producer, he launched the Miracles and signed acts like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight& the Pips and Stevie Wonder. He was known for carefully controlling the public image, dress, manners, and choreography of his acts. Berry Gordy III( known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., born November 28, 1929) is an American record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer. In 1998, Gordy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. <SEP> Forever is a 1921 American silent romance film, also known as Peter Ibbetson, that was written by Ouida Bergère and directed by George Fitzmaurice. It was adapted from George Du Maurier's 1891 novel" Peter Ibbetson", which was made into a play of the same name by John N. Raphael. The sole remaining copy was held until the 1970s by Wallace Reid's widow Dorothy Davenport, who donated it for a proposed museum archive, but the film is now considered lost. <SEP> He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring Randolph Scott and John Wayne. He directed Gary Cooper in seven films. Henry Hathaway( March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer. <SEP> The picture is based on a novel of the same name by George du Maurier, first published in 1891. In 1917, du Maurier's story was adapted into a very successful Broadway play starring John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Constance Collier and Laura Hope Crews. Peter Ibbetson is an American black- and- white drama film released in 1935 and directed by Henry Hathaway. The story had also been filmed in 1921, as a silent film called" Forever"( 1921), directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring the popular Wallace Reid. In the years that followed, a Ford Theater television" Peter Ibbetson"( 1951) starring Richard Greene, and a" Campbell Playhouse" radio" Peter Ibbetson"( 1951) directed by and starring Orson Welles were produced. This tale of a love that transcends all obstacles relates the story of two young lovers who are separated in childhood and then drawn together by destiny years later. Even though they are separated in real life because Peter is unjustly convicted of murder( it was actually self- defense), they discover they can dream themselves into each other's consciousness while asleep. In this way, they live out their life together. The transitions between reality and fantasy are captured by the cinematography of Charles Lang, as discussed in the documentary" Visions of Light"( 1992). <SEP> Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.