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 into Ernst Lubitsch’s romcom Design for Living. A housewife and doctor meet at a train station in this author’s play Still Life, which inspired David Lean’s film Brief Encounter. Kay Hammond wore green makeup for a film that abandons this author’s signature finale, in which the protagonist tiptoes offstage. In a play by this author, Charles Condomine deals with the jealousies of his second wife Ruth and the ghost of his deceased wife, Elvira. For 10 points, a séance occurs in what author’s play Blithe Spirit? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Noël Coward [or Sir Noël Peirce Coward]
<AP, British Literature>
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Kritanu SahaCornell DRIT B1380
Tom ScheriRIT BCornell D1380

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Great Lakes2025-02-01Y667%0%0%133.25
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Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%112.17
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%102.33
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Overflow2025-02-01Y580%0%40%124.75
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UK2025-02-01Y978%0%0%97.86
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y875%0%0%112.83
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