Packet 6: Tossup 17

An actor with this surname sang the Psycho theme while pretending to stab Jerry Seinfeld after he was caught stealing (15[1])knives from the show’s set. Noir scholar Eddie Muller once recounted how that actor with this surname peed in a cup during a screening of Born to Kill, his most famous role as a heavy. In a Technicolor (15[1])film, an actress with this surname plays a saboteur who trips down a staircase to induce her own miscarriage (15[1])and looks on through sunglasses (15[1])as her husband’s disabled teenage (15[1])brother drowns (-5[1])at a lake resort in Maine. (15[2])The lead actress of the supernatural 1940s films The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (15[1])and Heaven Can Wait shares this surname with the boorish actor who played Boss (*) Cabot in Reservoir Dogs. An actress with this surname starred as a (10[1])femme fatale with an Electra complex in Leave Her to Heaven and played the title murder victim in a noir by Otto Preminger. For 10 points, give this surname (10[1])of the star of Laura, who had the first name Gene. ■END■ (10[1]0[7])

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