Question: Which film has the director who was born later, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914 Film) or Secrets Of An Actress?

Floyd Martin Thornton (4 November 1884–1 April 1956) was an American screenwriter and film director, often credited as F. Martin Thornton. Born in 1884 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he worked for some years in England. In 1915 he married the British actress Evelyn Boucher at Steyning in West Sussex. They had two sons, both born in England: Edward E. Martin (1916–2010) and Paul Mulford Martin (1921–1994). In 1925 he, his wife and two sons left the UK for America, where they all remained for the rest of their lives. He died in April 1956 in Orange, California in the USA. <SEP> It is about a love triangle between a stage actress, her financial backer, and his friend. Secrets of an Actress is a 1938 romantic drama film directed by William Keighley, and starring Kay Francis, George Brent, and Ian Hunter. <SEP> After graduating from the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art, Keighley began acting at the age of 23. By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on Broadway. With the advent of talking pictures, he relocated to Hollywood. He eventually signed with Warner Bros., where he proved adept at directing in a wide variety of genres. He was the initial director of" The Adventures of Robin Hood", starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, but was replaced by Michael Curtiz. During World War II, he supervised the First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S. Army Air Forces. William Jackson Keighley( August 4, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 24, 1984, New York, New York) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director. He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin. In retirement he became an award- winning, renowned still photographer. He died of a stroke. <SEP> It was based on the 1886 novel" Little Lord Fauntleroy" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film was produced by the Natural Colour Kinematograph Company. It was distributed in the UK by Kineto Ltd. and released in the US by Shubert Feature Film( later World Film Company) in April of that year. It was one of the first feature- length films to be made in colour, using the Kinemacolor two- colour additive colour process. Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring H. Agar Lyons, Gerald Royston in the title role, and Jane Wells. Originally, Joan Morgan had been considered for the part of Cedric Erroll as Lord Fauntleroy, before 13- year old Gerald Royston was given the role. Born in 1901 and the younger brother of Roy Royston, the British child actor appeared in silent films from 1913 to 1915. His casting in" Little Lord Fauntleroy" was one of the earliest starring roles for a child actor in a feature- length film. An advertisement in the cinema trade journal" Bioscope" cited English writer Effie Albanesi's praise of the film. She called it" excellent" and commended the film's adaptation of Burnett's novel, saying," the acting of the boy[ Royston] was wonderful". <SEP> Reginald Bathurst Birch( May 2, 1856 – June 17, 1943) was an English- American artist and illustrator. He was best known for his depiction of the titular hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel" Little Lord Fauntleroy", which started a craze in juvenile fashion. While his illustrated corpus has eclipsed his other work, he was also an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes. <SEP> The Boer War is a 1914 film, directed by George Melford about the Second Boer War.