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In one role, this actor scatters her father’s ashes on a desert mountaintop on horseback. (15[1])Leon Shamroy won a cinematography Oscar for a film in which this actor sticks her shoe into the carpet before throwing herself down the stairs to cause a miscarriage. An ending in which this actor deflects a shotgun blast into the face of a grandfather clock was restored after Walter Winchell didn’t understand the reshoots. While vacationing at a lake in Maine, this actor sits in a rowboat and watches through (*) sunglasses as a sickly boy drowns in front of her. This actor played a noir lead whose theme by David Raksin became a jazz standard. For 10 points, what actor played Ellen in Leave Her to Heaven as well as a supposed murder victim in Otto Preminger’s Laura? ■END■ (0[3])

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