Question: Which film has the director who died later, The Shanghai Gesture or The Thaw (1931 Film)?

He is best known for his film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s, including the highly regarded Paramount/ UFA production," The Blue Angel"( 1930). Sternberg's finest works are noteworthy for their striking pictorial compositions, dense décor, chiaroscuro illumination and relentless camera motion, endowing the scenes with emotional intensity. He is also credited with initiating the gangster film genre with his silent era movie" Underworld"( 1927). Josef von Sternberg( born Jonas Sternberg, 29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian- American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios. Sternberg's themes typically offer the spectacle of an individual's desperate struggle to maintain their personal integrity as they sacrifice themselves for lust or love. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for" Morocco"( 1930) and" Shanghai Express"( 1932). <SEP> The Thaw is a 1931 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet. <SEP> It is based on a Broadway play of the same name by John Colton, which was adapted for the screen by Sternberg and produced by Arnold Pressburger for United Artists. It was the last Hollywood film Sternberg ever completed: Howard Hughes fired him halfway through production of" Macao" in 1951, as well as from" Jet Pilot" in 1957. The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 American film noir directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, and Ona Munson. Boris Leven received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction, while Richard Hageman was nominated for Best Original Music Score. <SEP> C. Henry Gordon( born Henry Racke; June 17, 1883 – December 3, 1940) was an American stage and film actor. Gordon was born in New York City, New York. He was educated both in New York and abroad in Switzerland and Germany. For some years he owned and ran a silver mine in New Mexico but failed to make it pay, so he became an actor. Gordon's entry into acting came accidentally when he accompanied his sister to a tryout for a play. The director had him read a part, and he soon was a member of the troupe. He had a long stage career, on and off Broadway, before entering films. His Broadway credits included" The Shanghai Gesture"( 1928)," The Shanghai Gesture"( 1926)," Mismates"( 1925)," Puppets"( 1925)," The Saint"( 1924)," Mr. Pitt"( 1924)," The Crooked Square"( 1923)," Thin Ice"( 1922)," Lights Out"( 1922), and" The Drums of Jeopardy"( 1922). He first worked in films in 1911 with George Beban in New York. He appeared in 79 films between 1930 and 1940, frequently as a villain, such as Surat Khan in" The Charge of the Light Brigade"( 1936), opposite Errol Flynn. On December 3, 1940, Gordon died at Hollywood Hospital in Los Angeles, California, after having his leg amputated on December 2 because of a blood clot. <SEP> John Colton (December 31, 1887 – December 26, 1946) was an American playwright and screenwriter born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spent the first 14 years of his life in Japan where his English father was a diplomat. After returning to the US he soon worked for a Minneapolis newspaper. He is best remembered for adapting, with Clemence Randolph, Somerset Maugham's novella "Rain" into a 1922 smash hit play starring Jeanne Eagels. He wrote the original play, "The Shanghai Gesture," produced on Broadway in 1926. He excelled at writing plays dealing with Americans in far-off lands, an experience Colton knew firsthand from his early youth in Japan. With these huge successes Colton was lured to Hollywood, primarily MGM, where he wrote intertitles for some silent films and scenarios for others. In the talking film era he wrote numerous screenplays. Three of his stage plays found motion picture production: "Rain" (1932); "The Shanghai Gesture" (1941); and, posthumously, "Under Capricorn" (1949). Colton suffered a stroke in 1945. He died of a second stroke in Gainesville, Texas in 1946. Colton, a gay man, never married. <SEP> Boris Vasilyevich Barnet( 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British origin. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963.