question: What was the name of the film directed prior to The Gentle Sex?
answer: "The First of the Few"
context: Title: Leslie Howard (actor)
  Passage: Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner, 3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director and producer.  Howard also wrote many stories and articles for "The New York Times", "The New Yorker" and "Vanity Fair".  Howard was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s but is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind" (1939).  Howard had movie roles in many other notable films, including: "Berkeley Square" (1933), "Of Human Bondage" (1934), "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1934), "The Petrified Forest" (1936), "Pygmalion" (1938), "Intermezzo" (1939), ""Pimpernel" Smith" (1941) and "The First of the Few" (1942), receiving two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
  Title: Sex with a Smile II
  Passage: Sex with a Smile II (originally titled Spogliamoci così, senza pudor) is a 1976 "commedia sexy all'italiana" film directed by Sergio Martino.  Like its predecessor, "Sex with a Smile", it is an anthology sex comedy film with a series of four comedic sketches that parody Italian sexual mores.
  Title: The Gentle Sex
  Passage: The Gentle Sex is a 1943 British, black-and-white romantic comedy-drama war film directed and narrated by Leslie Howard.  It was produced by Concanen Productions, Two Cities Films and Derrick de Marney.  "The Gentle Sex" was Howard's last film before his death.
citations: Leslie Howard (actor) The Gentle Sex