Question: Which film has the director born first, Rita the American Girl or Crossroad Avenger?

Rita the American Girl( Italian: Rita, la figlia americana) is a 1965 Italian musicarello film directed by Piero Vivarelli with Totò and Rita Pavone. <SEP> Vivarelli was born in Siena. After his father's death in 1942 at the hands of Yugoslav Partisans, Vivarelli joined the Republic of Salò as a young volunteer of the Decima Flottiglia MAS and for a short time was a member of the Italian Social Movement. Later, from 1949 through the 1990s, he was a member of the Italian Communist Party, and was also the only Italian to receive the Communist Party of Cuba's membership card from Fidel Castro. Mainly active in genre films, he is regarded as a key figure in the musicarello genre. Piero Vivarelli( 26 February 1927 – 7 September 2010) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and lyricist. He was also active as a lyricist of pop songs, including several hits popularized by Adriano Celentano. <SEP> In the 1950s, Wood directed several low- budget science fiction, crime and horror films, notably" Glen or Glenda"( 1953)," Jail Bait"( 1954)," Bride of the Monster"( 1955)," Plan 9 from Outer Space"( 1959)," Night of the Ghouls"( 1959) and" The Sinister Urge"( 1960). In the 1960s and 1970s, he moved towards sexploitation and pornographic films, and wrote over 80 pulp crime, horror and sex novels. Notable for their campy aesthetics, technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, ill- fitting stock footage, eccentric casts, idiosyncratic stories, and non sequitur dialogue, Wood's films remained largely obscure until he was posthumously awarded a Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time in 1980, renewing public interest in his life and work. Edward Davis Wood Jr.( October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and author. Following the publication of Rudolph Grey's 1992 oral biography" Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr.", a biopic of his life," Ed Wood"( 1994), was directed by Tim Burton. Starring Johnny Depp as Wood, the film received two Academy Awards. <SEP> Crossroad Avenger is a 1953 Western film intended to serve as a television pilot. It was directed by Ed Wood (who also wrote the script) and served as a star vehicle for Tom Keene. Keene had become known as a star of B movie Westerns in the 1930s and 1940s, but was experiencing a downturn in his career in the 1950s. Wood served as both writer and director. He also had a small acting role as a Pony Express rider. The film lasts 25 minutes. The series failed to find a buyer. It was eventually combined with another Western starring Keene into a longer film called The Adventures of the Tucson Kid and was syndicated to television c. 1954. <SEP> Kit Kittredge: An American Girl( also advertised as Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery) is a 2008 American comedy- drama film directed by Patricia Rozema and written by Ann Peacock, based on the" Kit Kittredge" stories by Valerie Tripp. The film focuses on the American Girl character Kit Kittredge( Abigail Breslin) who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio during the Great Depression. It is the first and only in the" American Girl" film series to have a theatrical release; the first three were television films. As with the TV films, Julia Roberts served as one of the executive producers. <SEP> Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.