Packet 2: Tossup 13

In a film by this director, a “countess” on the train to Reno explains that she is divorcing the second consecutive husband to try (15[1])to murder her for her money. In a “prologue” by this director, a character breaks a golf club over her knee while throwing her husband out of the house. A Technicolor fashion show appears in this director’s otherwise black-and-white adaptation of a Clare Booth Luce play with an (*) all-female cast. In a film by this director, a character promises (10[1])to be “yar” like her ex-husband’s yacht, The True Love. A drunken journalist keeps saying the full name of C.K. Dexter Haven in a film by this director that ended a box office poison reputation for Katherine Hepburn. For 10 points, name this director of The Philadelphia Story. ■END■ (10[1])

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