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 (10[1])billowing dress shot for The Seven Year Itch. (10[1])A (-5[1])1942 biopic about a man with this profession ends with Gary Cooper’s line (10[1])“today, I consider myself (10[1])the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” For 10 points, name this profession depicted in Pride of the Yankees. ■END■ (10[1])

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