Packet 4: Tossup 15

Alfred Hitchcock interrupted this director’s lunch with John Ford to compliment him on a scene that reveals the heroine’s amputation, with Hitchcock saying “ah, that leg, that leg.” Roger Vivier’s (“roh-ZHAY viv-YAY’s”) metal buckle pump shoes were popularized by the star of a film by this director whose title inspired Brooke Magnanti’s pen name. William Friedkin’s casting agent got him the wrong actor from a film by this director to play the villain of The (*) French Connection. (10[1])In a 1967 film, (10[1])this director used the recurring sounds of horse hooves (10[1])and jingling (10[1])bells to symbolize a woman’s sexual desires (10[1])that her doctor husband cannot satisfy. Jean-Claude (-5[1])Carrière (10[2])(“car-YAIR”) co-wrote (-5[1])that film by this director, whose title puns on the daytime liaisons of the heroine, (10[1])a sexually repressed (10[1])housewife. (-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, Catherine Deneuve (“duh-NUV”) starred in what director’s films (10[1])Tristana and Belle de Jour? ■END■ (10[2]0[4])

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