Packet 9: Tossup 6

This actress personally chose a then-unknown Tom Selleck to play her lover when she came out of retirement to play casting agent Leticia Van Allen in Myra Breckinridge. This actress’s pet monkey (15[1])inspired her to come (15[1])up with the line (15[1])“Beulah, peel me a grape” for a film starring her as a lion tamer. This star of My Little Chickadee and (15[1])I’m No Angel (15[1])first came (15[1])to national (15[2])prominence for being sentenced (15[1])to 10 days (15[1])in jail for her hit play (15[1])Sex. This (15[2])actress (15[1])inspired (15[1])the glass (*) bottle (10[1])for Elsa Schiaparelli’s (“skee-ah-pah-REL-ee’s”) Shocking perfume and the nickname of World War II-era inflatable life preservers. Cary Grant was the addressee of a quip by this actress from the film She Done Him Wrong that is often misquoted as “why don’t you come up and see me sometime?” For 10 points, Salvador Dalí modeled a sofa on the lips of what voluptuous, witty star of the 1930s? ■END■

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