Question

This author wrote a film in which a woman says “I didn’t think such violent things could happen to ordinary people,” before being asked “whatever your dream was, it wasn’t a very happy one, was it?” by a man who puts down his crossword. Ben Hecht adapted a play by this author (10[1])into (-5[1])Ernst Lubitsch’s romcom Design for Living. A housewife (10[1])and (10[1])doctor meet at a train station in this author’s (10[1])play Still (10[1])Life, (10[1])which inspired David Lean’s film (10[1])Brief (10[1])Encounter. Kay (10[1])Hammond wore green makeup for (10[1])a film (10[1])that abandons this author’s signature finale, in which the protagonist tiptoes offstage. (10[3])In a (10[1])play (10[1]-5[1])by (-5[1])this author, Charles Condomine deals (10[1])with the jealousies (10[1])of his second (10[1])wife Ruth (10[1])and the ghost (10[1])of his deceased (10[1])wife, (10[1])Elvira. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[2])a séance occurs in what (10[1])author’s (10[2])play (10[1])Blithe Spirit? (10[2])■END■ (10[13]0[24])

ANSWER: Noël Coward [or Sir Noël Peirce Coward]
<AP, British Literature>
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