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Rudolph Maté showed this character aging by increasingly shining more direct light to highlight the 41 year old actor’s wrinkles. This character struggles to tell his sick mother that he’s going to Hartford, leading her to think that he’s going to Harvard’s engineering school. This character meets his future wife when she heckles his fall by calling him “Tanglefoot.” (15[1])This biopic protagonist is tricked into taking a bite out of a hat belonging to a childhood hero who gave up his famously massive (*) hot dog diet to play himself. This character signs an autograph for a sick boy named Billy, for whom he promises to score twice in an upcoming game. (10[1])For 10 points, Gary Cooper played what athlete who considers himself “the luckiest man on the face (10[1])of the Earth” in The Pride of the Yankees? ■END■

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