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 (-5[1])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 (10[1])with this surname in a series of murder mysteries inspired (10[1])by Dashiell Hammett. For 10 points, Myrna Loy’s most frequent co-star was an actor with what surname who played Nick Charles in The Thin Man? ■END■ (0[1])

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