Question: Are the directors of films City Of Fear (Film) and Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Film) both from the same country?

City of Fear( 1959) is a black- and- white film noir directed by Irving Lerner. <SEP> Before becoming a filmmaker, Lerner was a research editor for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, getting his start in film by making documentaries for the anthropology department. In the early 1930s, he was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League, and later, Frontier Films. He made films for the Rockefeller Foundation and other academic institutions, becoming a film editor and second- unit director involved with the emerging American documentary movement of the late 1930s. Lerner produced two documentaries for the Office of War Information during WW II and after the war became the head of New York University's Educational Film Institute. In 1948, Lerner and Joseph Strick shared directorial chores on a short documentary," Muscle Beach". Lerner then turned to low- budget, quickly filmed features. When not hastily making his own thrillers, Lerner worked as a technical advisor, a second- unit director, a co-editor and an editor. Lerner was cinematographer, director, or assistant director on both fiction and documentary films such as" One Third of a Nation"( 1939)," Valley Town"( 1940)," The Land"( 1942) directed by Robert Flaherty, and" Suicide Attack"( 1950). Lerner was also producer of the OWI documentary" Hymn of the Nations"( 1944), directed by Alexander Hammid, and featuring Arturo Toscanini. He was co-director with Joseph Strick of the short documentary" Muscle Beach"( 1948). Irving Lerner( 7 March 1909, New York City- 25 December 1976, Los Angeles) was an American filmmaker. Irving Lerner was also a director and film editor with directing credits such as" Studs Lonigan"( 1960) and editing credits such as Stanley Kubrick's" Spartacus"( 1960) and Martin Scorsese's" New York, New York"( 1977). Lerner died during the cutting of" New York, New York", and the film was dedicated to him. <SEP> Richard E. Chertoff( born March 29, 1950 in New York, NY) is an American five- time Grammy- nominated producer responsible for such hits as Joan Osborne's" One of Us", Cyndi Lauper's" Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and" Time After Time" and Sophie B. Hawkins'" Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover". Both Cyndi Lauper's album" She's So Unusual" and Joan Osborne's album" Relish" were debut albums that garnered multi-platinum sales and multiple Grammy nominations. Chertoff was nominated twice for' album of the year', twice for' record of the year' and also for' producer of the year. ' <SEP> For many years, Comedy Central, Lifetime, USA Network, Lifetime Movie Network and ABC Family have aired the film. Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a 1985 American romantic comedy dance film directed by Alan Metter and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Montgomery, Morgan Woodward, Jonathan Silverman, Shannen Doherty, and Helen Hunt. <SEP> Alan Metter( born August 19, 1933 in USA) is an American film director whose most notable credits include" Back to School" starring Rodney Dangerfield, and" Girls Just Want to Have Fun" with Sarah Jessica Parker. He also produced and directed the 1983 television special" The Winds of Whoopie" for Steve Martin. <SEP> Elliott Harcourt Montgomery( born November 3, 1961), known as Lee Montgomery, is a United States- based Canadian former actor. He is best known for his role as a lonely little boy who befriends a pack of killer rats in the film" Ben"( 1972) and as Sarah Jessica Parker's hunky dance partner, Jeff Malene, in" Girls Just Want to Have Fun"( 1985).