Question: Do both directors of films State Fair (1962 film) and Meridian (film) share the same nationality?

Clark was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1950, but moved to Los Angeles where he spent his student years and started composing and playing the piano. After Clark graduated in music theory and composition from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia, he set out for New York City. There he began working and recording with David Murray. Influenced by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Horace Tapscott, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, Clark was based in Amsterdam for many years until his return to the U.S. He is now situated in New England. While working with various groups, Clark has played with musicians including Oscar Brown, Jr., Julian Priester, Art Taylor, Billy Bang, Richard Davis, Abbey Lincoln, Charles Tyler, John Tchicai and Han Bennink. He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity. Curtis Clark( born 23 April 1950) is a jazz pianist from Chicago, United States. <SEP> The film stars Kevin Kilner, Reid Scott, and Elyse Levesque, and focuses on detectives investigating the disappearances of three men in 1940s Los Angeles. It was released on Netflix and Xiph.org in September 2016. While" Meridian" was given an official release, the film serves primarily as testing material for video codecs and 4 K streaming quality. The film incorporates material that is difficult to stream, such as smoke, rain and harsh lighting. It was released under a Creative Commons license so that other streaming services may use it for their own tests. Meridian is a 2016 film noir thriller film directed by Curtis Clark and written by Clark and James Harmon Brown. <SEP> José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón He was the first Puerto Rican- born actor, as well as the first Hispanic actor, to win an Academy Award( in 1950 for" Cyrano de Bergerac"). In 1947, Ferrer won the Tony Award for his theatrical performance of" Cyrano de Bergerac", and in 1952, he won the Distinguished Dramatic Actor Award for" The Shrike", and also the Outstanding Director Award for directing the plays" The Shrike The Fourposter", and" Stalag 17". Ferrer's contributions to American theatre were recognized in 1981, when he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. ( January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor and theatre and film director. In 1985, he received the National Medal of Arts from Ronald Reagan, becoming the first actor to receive that honor. <SEP> Fallen Angel is a 1945 black- and- white film noir directed by Otto Preminger, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle, who had also worked with Preminger on" Laura" a year before. The film features Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Charles Bickford. It was the last film Faye made as a major Hollywood star, and she did not make another film until" State Fair"( 1962). <SEP> State Fair( 1933) is an American Pre- Code comedy- drama film directed by Henry King and starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, and Lew Ayres. The picture tells the story of a farm family's multi-day visit to the Iowa State Fair, where the parents seek to win prizes in agricultural and cooking competitions, and their teenage daughter and son each find unexpected romance. Based on a bestselling novel by Phil Stong, this was the first of three film versions of the novel released to theaters, the others being the movie musicals" State Fair"( 1945) starring Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews, and" State Fair"( 1962) starring Ann-Margret and Pat Boone. The 1933 version was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. The film, made pre-Code and despite its seemingly tame plot, has some scenes that were censored a few years later, when it was re-released due to the Breen Office's Production Code that took effect in 1934. Although the screenwriters cut the novel's depiction of a sexual affair between the daughter and a reporter, they kept the son's seduction by a trapeze artist. Moralists were particularly outraged by a scene in which Norman Foster and Sally Eilers' dialogue is heard off- screen while the camera reveals a rumpled bed and a negligee on the floor. Rogers was accorded top billing on some posters, but Gaynor was billed above Rogers in the film itself. Victor Jory also appears as the hoop toss barker at the carnival, at the beginning of a screen career spanning 57 years. In 2014," State Fair" was deemed" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. <SEP> A remake of the 1933 film" State Fair" and the 1945" State Fair" films, it was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film. Richard Rodgers wrote additional songs, both music and lyrics, for this 1962 version of the novel to film adaptation. His partner, Oscar Hammerstein, had died in 1960. While the 1933 and 1945 versions were set at the Iowa State Fair, this 1962 version was set in Texas( the family drives through Dallas where the State Fair of Texas is held). It was filmed on soundstages at Twentieth Century Fox in California, at various locations in Texas, at Mooney's Grove park in Visalia, California, and the climactic speedway sequence was filmed on location at the Oklahoma State Fair Raceway in Oklahoma City where the Oklahoma State Fair is held .. The Tilt- A- Whirl that was used in the film is currently at a small theme park in Golden, Colorado. The novel State Fair would be dramatized twice more following the 1962 film. The first State Fair stage musical, which utilized a variety of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs( many originally written for projects not related to their State Fair film), was first produced in 1969. State Fair is a 1962 American musical film directed by José Ferrer and starring Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Ann- Margret, Tom Ewell, Pamela Tiffin and Alice Faye. A revised version of this stage musical was produced in the 1990s and eventually played on Broadway. A non-musical version of State Fair was filmed for televsion in 1976.