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Akira Kurosawa

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Frank Capra O

Birth: May 18, 1897

Birthplace: Italy

Death: September 33, 1991

Movie: It Happened One Light (1934), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Charles Chaplin O

Real Name: Charles Spencer Chaplin

Birth: April 16, 1889

Birthplace: London, England

Death: December 25, 1977

Movie: Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Limelight (1952)

George Cukor OOO

Birth: July 7, 1899

Death: January 23, 1983

Movie: Little Women (1933), Camile (1937), The Women (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Gaslight (1944), A Star is Born (1954), My Fair Lady (1964)

Michael Curtiz O

Real Name: Kano kertesz Kaminer 

Birth: December 24, 1886

Birthplace: Hungary

Death: April 10, 1962

Movie: Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Flamingo Road (1949), White Christmas (1953)

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Cecil B. DeMille

Movie: Cleopatra (1935), The Greatest Show on Earth (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956)

Stanley Donen OO

Movie: On the Town (1949), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Seven Brides for Seven Brother (1954), Funny Face (1957), Charade (1963)

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Blake Edwards OO

Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Victor / Victoria (1982)

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Victor Fleming OO

Birth: February 23, 1883

Death: January 6, 1949

Movie: Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz

John Ford O

Birth: February 1, 1894

Death: August 31, 1973

Movie: How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Darling Clementine (1946), Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), Mister Roberts (1955)

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Alfred Hitchcock OOO

Birth: August 13, 1899

Birthplace: London, England

Death: April 28, 1980

Movie: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), Rope (1948), Stranger on a Train (1951), Dial M For Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), The Wrong Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), North By Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963)

John Huston

Birth: August 5, 1906

Death: August 28, 1987

Movie: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948), The African Queen (1951)

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Elia Kazan

Real Name: Elias Kazanjoglou

Birth: September 7, 1909

Birthplace: Istanbul, Turkey

Death: September 28, 2003

Movie: Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Pinky (1949), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), East of Eden (1955), Splendor in the Glass (1961)

Gene Kelly OO

Birth: August 23, 1912

Death: February 2, 1996

Movie: FOn the Town (1949), Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Remark: Received Honourary Oscar in 1951; he made six films with actress Judy Garland between 1942 and 1950.

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Ernst Lubitsch OO

Birth: January 28, 1892

Birthplace: Berlin, Germany

Death: November 30, 1947

Movie: The Love Parade (1929), Angel (1937), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), To Be Or Not To Be (1942), Heaven Can Wait (1943)

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz O

Real Name: Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

Birth: February 11, 1909

Death: February 5, 1993

Movie: The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), All About Eve (1950), Julius Caesar (1953), Guys and Dolls (1955), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Cleopatra (1963)

Vicente Minnelli OO

Birth: February 28, 1903

Death: July 25, 1986

Movie: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), An American in Paris (1951), Gigi (1958)

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George Stevens

Movie: Woman of the Year (1942), A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), Giant (1956)

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Billy Wilder OOO

Birth: June 22, 1906

Birthplace: Austria

Death: March 27, 2002

Movie: Ball of Fire (1941), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960)

William Wyler OOO

Real Name: Wilhelm Weiller

Birth: July 1, 1902

Birthplace: France

Death: July 27, 1981

Movie: The Little Foxes (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Year of Our Lives (1946), Roman Holiday (1953), The Desperate Hours (1955), Ben-Hur (1959),  The Children's Hour (1961), How to Steal a Million (1966)

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