Question: Are the directors of films Serenade (1937 Film) and Isn'T It Romantic? (1948 Film) both from the same country?

The film was based on a novel by Theodor Storm, which was adapted again in 1958 as" I'll Carry You in My Arms" by Veit Harlan. Serenade is a 1937 German drama film directed by Willi Forst and starring Hilde Krahl, Albert Matterstock and Igo Sym. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Herlth and Werner Schlichting. <SEP> Margaret Preece is an English operatic soprano. She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio. Originally from Solihull, she has worked with English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North and the Carl Rosa Company. In 2007 she starred in the high- profile West End revival of" The Sound of Music" as the Mother Abbess, replacing Lesley Garrett. In 2008 Margaret Preece released an album called" Is n't It Romantic", which features 17 songs by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein, including" Is n't It Romantic?". Following the closure of" The Sound Of Music", she played Vava in Opera North's production of" Paradise Moscow" in spring 2009. There were performances in Leeds, Newcastle, Salford(" the Lowry"), Nottingham and Bregenz. In the summer, Preece reprised her role as the Mother Abbess in the UK Tour of" The Sound of Music", including performances at the Wales Millennium Centre. <SEP> Supporting actors included Mona Freeman, Richard Webb and Pearl Bailey. Although it takes its title from a 1932 song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, it is based on a novel called" Gather Ye Rosebuds" by Jeannette C. Nolan. The plot of" Is n't It Romantic?" is set in Indiana after the Civil War and is about three daughters courted by three young men. Is n't It Romantic? is a 1948 American musical film from Paramount Pictures, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Veronica Lake and Billy De Wolfe. <SEP> As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as "Wiener Filme". From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG. Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. <SEP> Lorenz Milton Hart( May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include" Blue Moon, Mountain Greenery, The Lady Is a Tramp, Manhattan, Where or When, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Falling in Love with Love, Have You Met Miss Jones?, My Funny Valentine, I Could Write a BookThis Ca n't Be Love With a Song in My Hear tIt Never Entered My Mind", and" Is n't It Romantic?". <SEP> Norman Zenos McLeod( September 20, 1898 – January 27, 1964) was an American film director, cartoonist, and writer. McLeod made several successful and influential movies such as" Taking A Chance"( 1928)," Monkey Business"( 1931)," Horse Feathers"( 1932)," Alice in Wonderland"( 1933)," Topper"( 1937)," Pennies from Heaven"( 1936)," There Goes My Heart"( 1938)," Merrily We Live"( 1938)," Topper Takes a Trip"( 1939)," Little Men"( 1940)," Panama Hattie"( 1942)," Jackass Mail"( 1942), and his last," Alias Jesse James"( 1959). Other memorable films directed by McLeod includes" It's a Gift"( 1934) with W.C. Fields, the Danny Kaye comedy," The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"( 1947), and" The Paleface" starring Bob Hope( 1948). In his later years, McLeod was recruited by writer Rod Serling to direct silent film comedy legend Buster Keaton in the 1961 Richard Matheson- penned" Once Upon a Time" episode of Serling's classic CBS Television series" The Twilight Zone".