Question: Which film whose director was born first, The Purple Heart or How Mcdougall Topped The Score?

Lt. Annie G. Fox( August 4, 1893 – January 20, 1987) was the first woman to receive the Purple Heart for combat. She served as the chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. At that time the awarding of the Purple Heart did not require the service member to be injured. The requirements were changed after the attack of Pearl Harbor and Lt. Fox was awarded the Bronze Star because Fox was not wounded in the attack. <SEP> How McDougall Topped the Score is a 1924 Australian silent film directed by Victor Upton-Brown. It is based on a famous poem by Thomas Edward Spencer about a cricket match won when a dog steals a ball, enabling the batting team to score plenty of runs. It is considered a lost film. <SEP> Eighteen- year- old Farley Granger had a supporting role. The film is a dramatization of the" show trial" of a number of US airmen by the Japanese government during World War II. The Purple Heart is a 1944 American black- and- white war film, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, directed by Lewis Milestone, and starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Don" Red" Barry, Sam Levene and Trudy Marshall. It is loosely based on the trial of eight US airmen who took part in the April 18, 1942, Doolittle Raid on Japan. Three were later executed and one died as a POW. This film was the first to deal directly with the Japanese treatment of POWs and ran into opposition from the US War Department, which was afraid that such films would provoke reprisals from the Japanese government. <SEP> Lewis Milestone( born Leib Milstein; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian- born American motion picture director. He is known for directing" Two Arabian Knights"( 1927) and" All Quiet on the Western Front"( 1930), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director. He also directed" The Front Page"( 1931 – nomination)," The General Died at Dawn"( 1936)," Of Mice and Men"( 1939)," Ocean's 11"( 1960), and received the directing credit for" Mutiny on the Bounty"( 1962), though Marlon Brando largely appropriated his responsibilities during its production. <SEP> Upton-Brown coached University when Gerald Brosnan stepped aside for the 1913 season but couldn't steer the club to a single win from his 18 games in charge. When not coaching, Upton-Brown spent some time as a boundary and field umpire in the VFL. He was involved in the early Australian movie industry, writing and directing a movie based on the play 'How McDougall Topped the Score' which was released in 1924. He is also credited as having acted in the 1920 film: The Kelly Gang, which starred Godfrey Cass. Victor Upton-Brown (1 November 1880 – 23 May 1964) was an Australian rules football coach who coached University for a season while they were in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also taught at Wesley College in Melbourne and is credited as the lyricist of several school songs, including "Grey Towers". He was also the editor of the 1910 version of that school's songbook. He opened the South Yarra Cinema in the suburb of South Yarra, Melbourne, on 22 November 1915, where he lectured on movies. He was an occasional contributor to "The Argus" newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, during 1914 and 1915. <SEP> Needham Roberts( April 28, 1901 – April 18, 1949) was an American soldier in the Harlem Hellfighters and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Croix de Guerre for his valor during World War I.