Round 1: Tossup 9

An actor with this surname starred opposite his ex-wife in a film whose final line is her telling him, “stand still, it’ll all be over in a minute” at their characters’ wedding. That actor with this surname wryly says his “permanent address” is “City Dump 32” while being interrogated to confirm that his love interest won a scavenger hunt for a “forgotten man” during the Great Depression. An MGM actress with this surname known for editing and choreographing her own solo numbers tap danced to “Begin the Beguine” in the last Broadway Melody film opposite (*) Fred Astaire. An actor with this surname used his signature sardonic, quippy diction as an impresario in The Great Ziegfeld and a butler in My Man Godfrey. The fox terrier Skippy starred with that actor with this surname in a series of murder mysteries inspired by Dashiell Hammett. For 10 points, Myrna Loy’s most frequent (10[1])co-star was an actor with what surname who played Nick Charles in The Thin Man? ■END■ (0[2])

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