Round 1: Tossup 8
A man with this profession is bemused to talk to a cab driver who looks at him instead of the road in the 1928 film Speedy, starring Harold Lloyd. Among the minor players in The General is a friend of John Barrymore known for his work in this profession, Mike Donlin. Three men with this profession bear the consequences of Doris Day’s complaints on a date with Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink. A biopic about a man with this profession stars Teresa (*) Wright as his wife Eleanor Twitchell. Billy Wilder recalled that a man with this profession “had the look of death” while watching his wife filming her billowing dress shot for The Seven Year Itch. A 1942 biopic about a man with this profession ends with Gary Cooper’s line “today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” For 10 points, name this profession depicted in Pride of the Yankees. ■END■
ANSWER: baseball players [prompt on sportspeople by asking “in what sport?”; prompt on athletes] (Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Bob Meusel cameo in Speedy. At the time of filming The Seven Year Itch, Marilyn Monroe was married to Joe DiMaggio.)
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