Question: Do both Daddy Long Legs (1931 Film) and Down From The Mountain films have the directors from the same country?

Performing arts and politics were his primary subjects. Donn Alan Pennebaker( July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019) was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award or" lifetime Oscar". Pennebaker has been described as" arguably the pre-eminent chronicler of Sixties counterculture". <SEP> Down from the Mountain is a 2000 documentary and concert film featuring a live performance by country and traditional music artists who participated in the Grammy- winning soundtrack recording for the Joel and Ethan Coen film," O Brother, Where Art Thou?" The documentary was directed by Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker. The concert, held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on May 24, 2000, was a benefit for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The artists in the concert also participated in a" Down from the Mountain" concert tour. <SEP> The story involves an orphan who is taken under the wing of a wealthy benefactor. The original story, written in 1912 by Jean Webster, compared the childhood of the wealthy to that of orphanage children. Although suffering under a tough matron, Judy Abbott( Janet Gaynor) manages to cope and help the other orphans through intelligence and hard work, and the wealthy Jervis Pendleton( Warner Baxter), who is the benefactor, ca n't help admiring his young charge. Yet, she does n't know it's he who is sponsoring her schooling, even when they meet, through Jervis' niece, who is Judy's roommate, and the girl, who was once alone, has to choose between their growing affection and a younger suitor. Daddy Long Legs( 1931) is an American pre-Code film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter. <SEP> Santell directed over 60 films, beginning in 1917, most of which were two- reel comedy short subjects for Hal Roach and other productions companies. Taking up feature films from about 1924, Santell worked for several major studios. In 1934, he was married to actress Jane N. Keithley; they remained married until her death. Alfred Allen Santell, also known as Al Santell( 1895 – 1981), was an American film director and film producer. He left the business in 1947 after a contract dispute with Republic Studios. Santell died on June 19, 1981 in Salinas, California. <SEP> Daddy Long Legs or Vadertje Langbeen is a 1938 Dutch romantic comedy film directed by Frederic Zelnik, based on Jean Webster's novel of the same name- one of several adaptations of that book( see below). <SEP> Daddy Long Legs( 1955) is a Hollywood musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of Walston, Massachusetts. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco, and stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Fred Clark, and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, loosely based on the 1912 novel" Daddy- Long- Legs" by Jean Webster. This was the first of three consecutive Astaire films set in France or with a French theme( the others being" Funny Face" and" Silk Stockings"), following the fashion for French- themed musicals established by ardent Francophile Gene Kelly with" An American in Paris"( 1951), which also featured Kelly's protégée Caron. Like" The Band WagonDaddy Long Legs" did only moderately well at the box office.