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An actor from this family named his cottage for The Count of Monte Cristo after starring in a dramatic adaptation of it over 6,000 times. That cottage inspired the setting of a play by an author from this family about 16-year-old Richard Miller, which begins on July 4. (10[1])An actress from this family dated J. D. Salinger and was disowned by her father for eloping with Charlie Chaplin. Phil Hogan’s landlord James is based on a member of this real-life family in the [emphasize] sequel to a (10[1])play in which a fictionalized member of this family complains about a foghorn. An author from this family wrote A Moon for the Misbegotten as (10[1])part of a (10[1])series of plays that fictionalized his morphine-addict (10[1])mother as Mary Tyrone. For 10 (10[1])points, what family was fictionalized by one of its members in (10[1])Long Day’s Journey into Night? (10[1]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: O’Neill family [accept James O’Neill or Oona O’Neill or Jamie O’Neill or Ella O’Neill or Eugene O’Neill; prompt on Mary Ellen Quinlan; prompt on Lady Chaplin until “Chaplin” is read] (The play in the second sentence is Ah, Wilderness!)
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Eshan Pant (D2)NYU AOregon State11410
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Hrishit ChaudhuriNYU BColorado College14310
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2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley2024-11-16Y2100%0%100%142.50
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