Packet 10: Tossup 11

A close-up on the laughing mouth of a character created by this screenwriter punctuates a sequence in which an animated graph depicts the rising stocks of the bogus pill Vitajex. At the end (15[1])of that film written by this author, the protagonist stands under a banner reading “there’s nothing as trustworthy as the ordinary mind of the ordinary man” while a sound effect machine plays (15[1])fake applause. This screenwriter lampooned F. (-5[1])Scott Fitzgerald in the novel The Disenchanted and created the charismatic radio star “Lonesome” Rhodes, (15[1])the debut (-5[1])film role of Andy Griffith. The drama critic Al Manheim narrates a novel by this author about a hack (*) Jewish screenwriter. (-5[1])This author replaced Arthur Miller as writer of a film that introduced Eva Marie Saint, due to Miller’s disapproval of the HUAC testimony of its director Elia Kazan. For (10[1]-5[1])10 points, the screenplays of A Face in the Crowd and On the Waterfront were written by what novelist of (-5[1])What Makes Sammy Run? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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