Question: Which film has the director died earlier, Steadfast Benjamin or A Star Is Born (1954 Film)?

Steadfast Benjamin( German: Der standhafte Benjamin) is a 1917 German silent comedy film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Arnold Rieck, Guido Herzfeld and Martha Altenberg. <SEP> He is particularly known for directing the German silent film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and a succession of other expressionist films. Wiene also directed a variety of other films of varying styles and genres. Following the Nazi rise to power in Germany, Wiene, who was of Jewish descent, fled into exile. Robert Wiene (27 April 1873 – 17 July 1938) was a film director of the silent era of German cinema. <SEP> Hart's screenplay is an adaptation of the original 1937 film, which was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and from the same story by William A. Wellman and Carson, with uncredited input from six additional writers — David O. Selznick, Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner Jr., John Lee Mahin, Budd Schulberg and Adela Rogers St. Johns. A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film written by Moss Hart, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, and directed by George Cukor. In 2000, the 1954 film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film ranked# 43 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Passions list in 2002 and# 7 on its list of greatest musicals in 2006. The song" The Man That Got Away" was ranked# 11 on AFI's list of 100 top songs in films. Garland had not made a film since she had negotiated release from her MGM contract soon after filming began on" Royal Wedding" in 1950, and the film was promoted heavily as her comeback. For her performance in" A Star is Born", Garland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. NBC, which was televising the ceremony, sent a film crew to the hospital room where she was recuperating after giving birth to her son Joey in order to carry her acceptance speech live if she won, but she lost to Grace Kelly for" The Country Girl". It is the second of four official adaptations of" A Star Is Born", with the first in 1937 starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, the third in 1976 starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson and the fourth in 2018 starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. <SEP> Tom Overton( April 14, 1930 – May 4, 1988) was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film" A Star Is Born". <SEP> Heather Parry( born 1971) is a television and film producer. She is best known for Pixels( 2015), The House Bunny( 2008) and A Star Is Born( 2018). <SEP> 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.