Packet 10: Tossup 10

This family has repeatedly disputed the portrayal of one of its members in memoirs by the writer Frederic Raphael. A Christian woman who married into this Jewish family was grateful that they accepted her even though she was the niece of the director of the Nazi propaganda film Jud Süß (“yood zooss”). Anthony Frewin, an assistant to a member of this family (15[1])for decades, wrote a 2005 film starring John Malkovich as Alan Conway, a real-life gay Englishman known for impersonating him despite being clean-shaven (15[1])instead of having a bushy (*) beard. This family lived in Hertfordshire’s (“HART-ferd-sheer’s”) Childwickbury Manor. (10[1])An actress and painter who married into this family played a barmaid who is the only female character in a film in which she tearfully sings “The Faithful Hussar” in the final scene. (10[1])A member of this family is the subject of his (-5[1])brother-in-law Jan Harlan’s 2001 documentary (10[1])A Life in Pictures. (-5[1])For 10 points, what family’s patriarch met his wife (10[1])Christiane (“krist-YAH-nuh”) on the set of his film Paths of Glory? ■END■ (10[5]0[2])

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