Packet 6: Tossup 6

Notorious agent Harry Reichenbach orchestrated a successful publicity stunt by making this actor grow a terrible Van Dyke beard to provoke the media into a months-long boycott of his movies. Because Vladek is said to resemble this actor, one of his biggest films names the first chapter of Art Spiegelman’s Maus. (-5[1])Bisexual actress Jean Acker dumped this actor just six hours after their wedding but didn’t divorce him, leading to his later arrest for bigamy upon his marriage to set designer Natacha Rambova. (15[1])This actor’s death from peritonitis resembling (15[1])appendicitis, (15[1])which was a medical (15[1])(*) novelty, occurred at age 31 shortly after he played a (10[1])double role in an adaptation of E. M. Hull’s novel The Sons of the Sheik. (10[1])Screenwriter (10[2])June Mathis (10[1])plucked this actor out of obscurity for the lead role of Rex Ingram’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in which he (10[1])popularized the tango. For 10 points, name this Italian actor erroneously nicknamed the “Latin (10[1])Lover.” ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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