question: Were both Jane Arden and Norman Z. McLeod directors?
answer: yes
context: Title: Jane Arden (comics)
  Passage: Jane Arden was an internationally syndicated daily newspaper comic strip which ran from 1927 to 1968.  The title character was the original "spunky girl reporter," actively seeking to infiltrate and expose criminal activity rather than just report on its consequences and served as a prototype for later characters such as "Superman" supporting character Lois Lane and fellow comic strip heroine, Brenda Starr.  "Jane Arden" was only moderately successful in the United States, but it was highly popular in Canada and Australia.  The strip was widely reprinted in comic books and was also adapted into both a film and a radio series.
  Title: Melody in Spring
  Passage: Melody in Spring is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and written by Benn W. Levy, Frank Leon Smith and Jane Storm.  The film stars Lanny Ross, Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, Ann Sothern, George Meeker and Herman Bing.  The film was released on April 20, 1934, by Paramount Pictures.
  Title: If I Had a Million
  Passage: If I Had a Million is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film.  There were seven directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, and H. Bruce Humberstone.  Lubitsch, Cruze, Seiter, and Humberstone were each responsible for a single vignette, Roberts and McLeod directed two each, and Taurog was in charge of the prologue and epilogue.  The screenplays were scripted by many different writers, with Joseph L. Mankiewicz making a large contribution.  "If I Had a Million" is based on a novel by Robert Hardy Andrews.
  Title: The Kid from Brooklyn
  Passage: The Kid from Brooklyn is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Walter Abel, Eve Arden, and Fay Bainter.  Virginia Mayo's and Vera-Ellen's singing voices were dubbed by Betty Russell and Dorothy Ellers, respectively,
  Title: Anti-Clock
  Passage: Anti-Clock is a 1979 film, an analytic drama in which dreams are imaged in computerized video, written and directed by Jane Arden, and co-directed by Jack Bond.  The film, which stars Arden's son Sebastian Saville, was shot on film and video in colour with black and white sequences.  It opened the 1979 London Film Festival, but was never picked up for British distribution: its only other public British screening was at the National Film Theatre in 1983 as a tribute to Jane Arden, who committed suicide at the end of the previous year.  However, it had a modest theatrical release in the US, where it received considerable critical acclaim.  Famed scientist Richard Feynman appears in the form of stock footage from his Messenger lectures on "The Character of Physical Law", and is credited as "The Physicist".
  Title: Sooky
  Passage: Sooky is a 1931 American Pre-Code adventure film directed by Norman Taurog and written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Norman Z. McLeod and Sam Mintz.  It is a sequel to the 1931 film "Skippy".  The film stars Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Jackie Searl, Willard Robertson, Enid Bennett and Helen Jerome Eddy.  The film was released on December 26, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
  Title: Jane Arden (director)
  Passage: Jane Arden (29 October 192720 December 1982) was a Welsh film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, and poet.
  Title: The Paleface (1948 film)
  Passage: The Paleface is a 1948 Technicolor comedy Western directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Bob Hope as "Painless Potter" and Jane Russell as Calamity Jane.  In the film, Hope sings the song "Buttons and Bows" (by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans).  The song won the Academy Award for Best Song that year.
  Title: The Other Side of the Underneath
  Passage: The Other Side of the Underneath is a 1972 British feature film written and directed by Jane Arden and starring Sheila Allen, Liz Danciger, Penny Slinger, Ann Lynn, and Suzanka Fraey.  Other members of the Holocaust Theatre Company appear in the film.  It is the only British feature film in the 1970s to be solely directed by a woman.  Jane Arden herself also appears in the film.  The title of the film is taken from a line in Arden's play Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven which was a huge success at the London Arts Lab in 1969.
  Title: Norman Z. McLeod
  Passage: Norman Zenos McLeod (September 20, 1898 – January 27, 1964) was an American film director, cartoonist, and writer.
citations: Jane Arden (director) Norman Z. McLeod