Question
Jean Renoir expressed surprise at how this actor needed to “study his lines like a schoolboy” and his difficulty with his native language when he portrayed a major who accidentally kills a POW he has befriended. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this actor. He referenced his own time as an auteur when reminiscing about being a great silent-era director in his role as Max, the butler of the vain actress Norma Desmond.
ANSWER: Erich von Stroheim [or Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim]
[10e] von Stroheim’s film Queen Kelly plays within this Billy Wilder film, which ends with Stroheim’s character “directing” his ex-wife Norma as she says, “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.”
ANSWER: Sunset Boulevard
[10h] von Stroheim shot a now-lost 42-reel version of his silent film Greed, in which this object represents the central marriage between Trina and Mac during the first night after their wedding. In a symbolic gesture, Mac opens this object in the film’s final scene.
ANSWER: birdcage [prompt on cage]
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