Round 10: Tossup 11

A close-up on the laughing mouth of a character created by this screenwriter punctuates a sequence in which an animated graph depicts the rising stocks of the bogus pill Vitajex. At the end of that film written by this author, the protagonist stands under a banner reading “there’s nothing as trustworthy as the ordinary mind of the ordinary man” while a sound effect machine plays (15[1])fake applause. This screenwriter lampooned F. Scott Fitzgerald in the novel The Disenchanted and created the charismatic radio star “Lonesome” Rhodes, the debut film role of Andy Griffith. The drama critic Al Manheim narrates a novel by this author about a hack (*) Jewish screenwriter. (-5[1])This author replaced Arthur Miller as writer of a film that introduced Eva Marie Saint, due to Miller’s disapproval of the HUAC testimony of its director Elia Kazan. For 10 points, the screenplays of A Face in the Crowd and On the Waterfront were written by what novelist of What Makes Sammy Run? ■END■ (0[1])

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