Round 2: Tossup 8

Commedia dell’arte inspired a film by this director in which Columbine kisses Harlequin after rejecting the gender-swapped “Pierrette.” As referenced by the title of a 2018 documentary narrated by Jodie Foster, this director kept a sign reading “Be Natural” in an office at Solax Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. This director used phallic imagery throughout a film featuring close-ups on a woman drinking stolen goods to satisfy her pregnancy cravings. A doctor announces his cure for tuberculosis in the opening of a film by this director inspired by O. Henry’s story “The Last Leaf.” Two films by this director depict women finding babies in (*) cabbage patches. This director satirized gender roles by reversing them in the comedy The Consequences of Feminism. Historical accounts ignored this director of over one thousand films, (10[1])often attributing films made for Gaumont Studios to her husband. For 10 points, name this pioneering early French woman (10[1])director. ■END■

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