Question: Do both films Harakiri (1919 Film) and The Philadelphia Story (Film) have the directors that share the same nationality?

He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films, including" What Price Hollywood?"( 1932)," A Bill of Divorcement"( 1932)," Our Betters"( 1933), and" Little Women"( 1933). George Dewey Cukor( July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. When Selznick moved to MGM in 1933, Cukor followed and directed" Dinner at Eight"( 1933) and" David Copperfield"( 1935) for Selznick and" Romeo and Juliet"( 1936) and" Camille"( 1936) for Irving Thalberg. He was replaced as the director of" Gone with the Wind"( 1939), but he went on to direct" The Philadelphia Story"( 1940)," Gaslight"( 1944)," Adam's Rib"( 1949)," Born Yesterday"( 1950)," A Star Is Born"( 1954)," Bhowani Junction"( 1956), and won the Academy Award for Best Director for" My Fair Lady"( 1964). He continued to work into the 1980s. <SEP> Ruth Carol Hussey (October 30, 1911 – April 19, 2005) was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in "The Philadelphia Story". <SEP> Based on the Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist. The socialite character of the play—performed by Hepburn in the film—was inspired by Helen Hope Montgomery Scott( 1904 – 1995), a Philadelphia socialite known for her hijinks, who married a friend of playwright Barry. Written for the screen by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, it is considered one of the best examples of a comedy of remarriage, a genre popular in the 1930s and 1940s, in which a couple divorce, flirt with outsiders, and then remarry—a useful story- telling ploy at a time when the depiction of extramarital affairs was blocked by the Production Code. The film was Hepburn's first big hit following several flops, which had led to her being included on a 1938 list that Manhattan movie theater owner Harry Brandt compiled of actors considered to be" box office poison". Hepburn acquired the film rights to the play, which she had also starred in, with the help of Howard Hughes in order to control it as a vehicle for her screen comeback. According to a Turner Broadcasting documentary" MGM: When the Lion Roars", after MGM purchased the film rights, they were skeptical about Hepburn's box office appeal, so Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer's Louis B. Mayer took an unusual precaution by casting two A- list male stars( Grant and Stewart) to support Hepburn. Nominated for six Academy Awards, the film won two: James Stewart for Best Actor, and Donald Ogden Stewart for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was remade in 1956 as a musical, retitled" High Society", starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart, and featuring Ruth Hussey. " The Philadelphia Story" was produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1995. <SEP> Philip Jerome Quinn Barry( June 18, 1896 – December 3, 1949) was an American dramatist best known for his plays" Holiday"( 1928) and" The Philadelphia Story"( 1939), which were both made into films starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. <SEP> One of the best- known" émigrés" from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the" Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Friedrich Christian Anton" Fritz" Lang( December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian- German- American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. Lang's most famous films include the groundbreaking futuristic" Metropolis"( 1927) and the also influential" M"( 1931), a film noir precursor that he made before he moved to the United States. <SEP> It was one of the first Japanese- themed films depicting Japanese culture. The film was originally released in the United States and other countries as Madame Butterfly because of the source material on which it is based and which also inspired Giacomo Puccini's eponymous opera. Harakiri, or Madame Butterfly, is a 1919 silent film directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. The film starred Lil Dagover as O- Take- san.