Round 8: Tossup 9

A telegram typo resulted in this director being passed over as president of the 1980 Cannes jury in favor of a Hollywood star with a similar name. A film by this director cuts between a woman dancing to mambo in her room and her father tumbling down a staircase to his death due to a heart attack. Richard Pryor spent most of his time in the Army imprisoned for stabbing a white soldier who laughed at a scene by this director in which a girl cries while clutching her dead mother’s casket. In a shot by this director, a man sleeps on a sofa while a woman looks out a window at a (*) deer. In Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega orders a steak named for this director. John Waters’s Polyester, Todd Haynes’s Far From Heaven, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul are all homages to this director’s films, especially those starring Rock Hudson. (10[1])For 10 points, Written on the Wind, Imitation of Life, and All That Heaven Allows exemplify what German director’s melodramas? ■END■

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