Round 3: Tossup 12

This director drew on his inventions of a telephone hearing aid and a “kissproof lipstick” in creating an inventor who is forced to pretend to be the mariner “Captain McGlue.” The finale of a film by this director reveals that the titular event is the heroine’s birth (15[1])of sextuplets. This director, whose birth surname was Biden, created a comically deaf rich man called the “Wienie King.” In a dialogueless opening sequence by this director, the lead-up to a wedding is set to the (*) William Tell (10[1])Overture, after which text on screen says “and then they lived happily ever after … or did they?” This filmmaker, who legendarily sold the script for The Great McGinty for just one dollar, directed a movie in which a billionaire wooes Claudette Colbert’s character en route to Florida. For 10 points, Hollywood’s first writer-director was what creator of The Palm Beach Story and Sullivan’s Travels? ■END■ (10[1])

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