Round 3: Tossup 4

A filmmaker with this surname cameoed as the man approaching the phone booth in Rosemary’s Baby, which Robert Evans produced by buying the rights to the novel from him. John Goodman’s character in Joe Dante’s movie Matinee is an homage to a director with this surname who created the ideas of “Emergo” and “Percepto.” John Carpenter co-wrote Escape from New York with a former PA with this surname who wore a Captain Kirk mask to play Michael (*) Myers in the original Halloween. This was the surname of a B-movie producer who literally shocked audiences of the Vincent Price vehicle The Tingler, his most famous “gimmick film.” The last RKO film to pair Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire was a biopic of a couple with this surname who popularized the (10[1])foxtrot. For 10 points, those two dancers had what surname and the first names Vernon and Irene? ■END■

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