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. (10[2])This director satirized (10[1])gender roles (10[1])by reversing them in the comedy (10[1])The Consequences of Feminism. (10[1])Historical (10[1])accounts ignored this director (10[1])of over one thousand films, often attributing films made for Gaumont Studios to her husband. (10[1])For 10 points, name this pioneering early French woman director. ■END■ (10[1])

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