In a play, a character based on Alexander Woollcott undergoes this specific fate before ordering oddities like a cockroach city and a crate of penguins. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this specific occurrence that causes the radio pundit Sheridan Whiteside to become an overdemanding and tyrannical houseguest at the Ohio home of Ernest and Daisy Stanley.
ANSWER: slipping on ice and falling down [prompt on falling or dislocating a hip or slipping or hurting or breaking a hip by asking “caused by what?”]
[10m] That ice slip and fall occurs before the main action of The Man Who Came to Dinner, one of this playwriting duo’s hugely popular Broadway comedies of the 1930s along with Once in a Lifetime and You Can’t Take It With You.
ANSWER: Moss Hart AND George S. Kaufman [accept in either order; prompt on partial answers]
[10e] In Kaufman and Hart’s Once in a Lifetime, a viewing of this film spurs the central vaudevillians to try their luck acting in Hollywood. Al Jolson played a cantor’s son who says “you ain't heard nothin’ yet” in this early talkie.
ANSWER: The Jazz Singer
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