Packet 2: Tossup 5

David Stenn’s biography of this actress, Running Wild, recounts how her debut role in a movie about whaling made her the then-best known of the “WAMPAS Baby Stars.” Among the scandals that caused this actress’s decline were her financial dispute with her secretary Daisy DeVoe, who leaked to the press her love letters to her husband Rex Bell, (15[1])Victor Fleming, and Gary Cooper. Elinor Glyn’s opening scrawl to this actress’s best-known film defines its title concept (15[1])as “that quality possessed (15[2])by some which (15[1])draws all others (15[2])with its magnetic force.” (15[1])This actress, who at her peak received tens of thousands of (*) fan letters each month, went on stage to accept the first ever Best Picture Academy Award for a film in which her character enlists as an ambulance driver to chase (10[1])a pilot. The closer (10[1])of Taylor Swift’s album The Tortured Poets Department (10[1])is titled for this (-5[1])red-headed sex symbol of the 1920s. For (10[1])10 points, what star (-5[1])of Wings was nicknamed the “It Girl”? ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

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