Packet 11: Tossup 18

A screenwriter and his secretary fall in love while co-writing a script titled for this object in a 1964 film whose title was taken from a Cole Porter song featuring the phrase “when it sizzles.” In a (-5[1])Vertigo-esque scene directed by Alexander Mackendrick, the camera swivels around this object as a foundry operator and London banker chase after some (15[1])schoolgirls. Replicas (15[1])of (15[3])this object made from melted stolen (15[1])gold (15[1])are the MacGuffins of that Ealing Studios comedy, The Lavender Hill Mob. Melvyn Douglas’s Count Leon is asked, “must you flirt?” when he points this object out on a (*) map using Ninotchka’s finger. This object is destroyed in the final shot of (10[1])The Great Race. In a 1957 Stanley Donen comedy, this structure is the final backdrop for a song sung (-5[1])by a trio of magazine editor Maggie, the model Jo, and the photographer Dick Avery. For 10 points, name this structure atop which Fred Astaire and (-5[1])Audrey Hepburn dance at the climax of the Funny Face song “Bonjour Paris.” ■END■ (10[2])

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