Question: Are director of film What's Good for the Goose and director of film Whistling in Brooklyn from the same country?

He began his film career at Warner Bros. in 1935, directing screen tests. In 1937, Simon moved to MGM, where he worked on the Marx Brothers'" The Big Store", supervising many of the slapstick sequences. He directed Red Skelton's first starring feature, 1941's" Whistling in the Dark", and later worked on two more Skelton vehicles," A Southern Yankee" and" The Fuller Brush Man", in 1948. Simon also directed Wallace Beery in" Bad Bascomb"( 1946), and a Glenn Ford western," Lust for Gold"( 1949). Simon was the producer of" Born Yesterday", a 1950 comedy that was nominated for five Academy Awards. He then suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 41. S. Sylvan Simon( March 9, 1910 – May 17, 1951) was an American stage/ film director and producer. His ashes were interred in a small unassuming bronze nameplate niche at Columbarium of Memory( Niche# 20174), in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California. <SEP> Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television. <SEP> He was best known for co-owning The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low- to- mid- budget American films, primarily Genre films, during the 1980s after Golan and Globus had achieved significant filmmaking success in their native Israel during the 1970s. Golan produced movies featuring actors such as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean- Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and for a period, was known as a producer of comic book- style movies like" Masters of the UniverseCaptain America", and his aborted attempt to bring Spider- Man to the silver screen. Golan also wrote and" polished" numerous film scripts under the pen name Joseph Goldman. Menahem Golan( May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014) was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. At the time of his death, Golan had produced over 200 films, directed 44, and won 8" Violin David Awards" as well as" The Israel Prize" in Cinema. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign- Language Film for Franco Zeffirelli's" Otello". <SEP> Whistling in Brooklyn is a 1943 film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, and Jean Rogers. It is the third and last film starring Skelton as radio personality and amateur detective Wally" The Fox" Benton, following" Whistling in the Dark" and" Whistling in Dixie". Wally prepares to marry his girlfriend, but gets sidetracked when he is mistaken for a serial murderer. Leo Durocher, then- manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, made his screen debut, playing himself, while Dodgers" superfan" Hilda Chester also made a brief appearance, playing herself. <SEP> Sally Bazely( born 1933) is a British television actress. Her main roles were in" Father, Dear Father"( 1968 – 70) and" Harriet's Back in Town"( 1972). She also played Norman Wisdom's wife in the comedy film" What's Good for the Goose"( 1969), and portrayed Poppaea in the 1976 BBC TV series" I, Claudius". <SEP> What's Good For It was written and directed by Menahem Golan. The film features pop music by Electric Banana otherwise known as the Pretty Things. The film uses locations around the Southport area, including the Birkdale Palace Hotel. The Goose, also known as Girl Trouble, is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Menahem Golan and starring Norman Wisdom.