Question
In this film’s “telephone scene,” Luise Rainer’s character calls her ex-husband to congratulate him on his new marriage, changes her mind too late, and fights back tears. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this extravagant 1936 MGM film. In a costly set piece in this film, the camera ascends a spiral staircase that resembles a wedding cake as tuxedoed men sing “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody.”
ANSWER: The Great Ziegfeld
[10m] Overhead camera moves and “kaleidoscope” shots were the trademark of this director, who included shots of women’s legs in his choreography for the musical numbers in films like Ziegfeld Girl and 42nd Street.
ANSWER: Busby Berkeley [or Berkeley William Enos]
[10e] Meet Me in St. Louis and An American in Paris are films by a director with this surname, who cast his wife Judy Garland in the film Ziegfeld Follies. Their daughter with this surname played Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
ANSWER: Minnelli [accept Vincente Minnelli or Liza Minnelli]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 9.33 | 47% | 47% | 0% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | Les Missourables | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | var merchants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | We Need New Names | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |