Question: Which film has the director who died earlier, Roadhouse Nights or Alexander'S Ragtime Band (Film)?

<P0-S0> Hobart Henley( born Hess Manassah Henle; November 23, 1887 – May 22, 1964) was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. <P0-S1> He was involved in over 60 films either as an actor or director or both in his twenty- year career, between 1914 and 1934 when he retired from filmmaking. <SEP> <P1-S0> Henry King( January 24, 1886 June 29, 1982) was an American actor and film director. <P1-S1> Seven films directed by King were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. <SEP> <P2-S0> Alexander's Ragtime Band is a 1938 musical film released by 20th Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song" Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of in" serious" music. <P2-S1> The film generally traces the history of jazz music from the popularization of Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century to the acceptance of swing as an art form in the late 1930s using music composed by Berlin. <P2-S2> The story spans more than two decades from the 1911 release of its name- sake song to some point in time after the 1933 release of" Heat Wave", presumably 1938. <P2-S3> It stars Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley and Jean Hersholt. <P2-S4> Several actual events in the history of jazz are fictionalized and adapted to the story including the tour of Europe by Original Dixieland Jass Band, the global spread of jazz by U.S. soldiers during World War I, and the 1938 Carnegie Hall performance by The Benny Goodman Orchestra. <P2-S5> There are no mentions of the primary importance of blacks in creating and playing jazz anywhere in the film. <P2-S6> The story was written by Berlin himself, with Kathryn Scola, Richard Sherman( 1905 – 1962) and Lamar Trotti. <P2-S7> It was directed by Henry King <P2-S8> It is believed by some that both the song and the movie were inspired by a real bandleader, Alexander Constantin Jr. of New Orleans( also known as" King" Watzke), and his band, Alexander's Ragtime Band, which was popular c. 1904- 11. <SEP> <P3-S0> Berlin died in 1989 at the age of 101. <P3-S1> He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. <P3-S2> His Broadway musical and 1943 film" This is the Army", with Ronald Reagan, had Kate Smith singing Berlin's" God Bless America" which was first performed in 1938. <P3-S3> Composer Douglas Moore sets Berlin apart from all other contemporary songwriters, and includes him instead with Stephen Foster, Walt Whitman, and Carl Sandburg, as a" great American minstrel" — someone who has" caught and immortalized in his songs what we say, what we think about, and what we believe." <P3-S4> Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including" Alexander's Ragtime BandEaster ParadePuttin' on the RitzCheek to CheekWhite Christmas Happy HolidayAnything You Can Do( I Can Do Better)", and" There's No Business Like Show Business". <P3-S5> Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. <P3-S6> His music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook. <P3-S7> Irving Berlin( born Israel Isidore Beilin;; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. <P3-S8> Berlin's songs have reached the top of the charts 25 times and have been extensively re-recorded by numerous singers including The Andrews Sisters, Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, Rosemary Clooney, Cher, Diana Ross, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughan, Ruth Etting, Fanny Brice, Marily n Miller, Rudy Vallée, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Jerry Garcia, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Buble, Lady Gaga, and Christina Aguilera. <P3-S9> It is commonly believed that Berlin could not read sheet music, and was such a limited piano player that he could only play in the key of F- sharp using his custom piano equipped with a transposing lever. <P3-S10> In doing so, said Walter Cronkite, at Berlin's 100th birthday tribute, he" helped write the story of this country, capturing the best of who we are and the dreams that shape our lives." <P3-S11> He published his first song," Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights, and had his first major international hit," Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911. <P3-S12> He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him famous before he turned thirty. <P3-S13> Composer George Gershwin called him" the greatest songwriter that has ever lived", and composer Jerome Kern concluded that" Irving Berlin has no" place" in American music—he" is" American music." <P3-S14> " Alexander's Ragtime Band" sparked an international dance craze in places as far away as Berlin's native Russia, which also" flung itself into the ragtime beat with an abandon bordering on mania." <SEP> <P4-S0> Many family members continue to live in Louisiana and elsewhere in USA, although Alex Jr. is not known to have married, nor left any direct descendants. <P4-S1> Alex( King) Watzke is buried in the family grave in the St. Joseph Cemetery in New Orleans. <P4-S2> An obituary was published in" The New York Times", and his inscription on the family tombstone in New Orleans suggests a date of death on January 14, 1919. <P4-S3> Refer to the article: <P4-S4> " King" Watzke was one of the first white bandleaders to take up ragtime and jazz, what had hitherto been primarily African- American musical genres, and thus was responsible for more widely popularizing these musical styles. <P4-S5> Alex" King" Watzke( 1872- 1919) was a violinist and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana. <P4-S6> Alexander Constantin Watzke, Junior(" King") was the youngest child of Alexander Constantin Watzke( Senior), a member of the Louisiana State Legislature, and a leader of New Orleans' German community, who died in 1914. <P4-S7> Because sound recordings were new in that era, no recordings of Watzke or his band are known to have survived. <P4-S8> King Watzke and his band are referred to in a scholarly book by Daniel Hardie, about the history of New Orleans jazz. <P4-S9> The band played ragtime, popular music, and possibly an early or ancestral version of what later became known as jazz. <P4-S10> By 1904 Watzke's band's repertory included an early version of what later became known as" Tiger Rag" or a similar melody; he and his band called it" Number 2" as Watzke's practice was to refer to his compositions by number. <P4-S11> His father, Alexander Constantin Watzke, Senior, was a successful businessman, in the hide and fur trade, who immigrated to New Orleans from Germany circa 1851; he had served one term in the Louisiana State Legislature and was a leader in the German community of New Orleans; he and his family resided in a large mansion, since demolished, on South Rampart Street. <P4-S12> There had been some confusion, however, as an obituary published in the" New Orleans Times- Picayune" referred to the death of another Alexander Watzke almost a decade later, on June 2, 1928, but that person has now been established to have been the nephew of" King" the jazz musician. <P4-S13> The band has also been described as" King Watzke's Band" or" Dixieland Band" in the written accounts cited as references. <P4-S14> It was reported that he gave coins to children in New Orleans' French Quarter to announce his coming," Here comes King Watzke". <SEP> <P5-S0> Roadhouse Nights is a 1930 American Pre-Code gangster film. <P5-S1> A number of sources including Sally Cline in her book" Dashiell Hammett Man of Mystery" claim it is based on the classic novel" Red Harvest" written by Dashiell Hammett( author of" The Maltese Falcon The Thin Man", and" The Glass Key"). <P5-S2> However the credits of the film itself say only" An Original Screenplay by Ben Hecht." <P5-S3> Hammett receives no mention at all( and the plots are not similar). <P5-S4> The movie, an unusual amalgam of musical comedy and gangster melodrama, was directed by Hobart Henley, stars Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, and Fred Kohler, and features a rare screen musical comedy performance by Jimmy Durante, in his screen debut, with his vaudeville partners Lou Clayton and Eddie Jackson(" Clayton, Jackson, and Durante"). <P5-S5> Helen Morgan also sings" It Ca n't Go On Like This."