Round 6: Tossup 17

An actor with this surname sang the Psycho theme while pretending to stab Jerry Seinfeld after he was caught stealing knives from the show’s set. Noir scholar Eddie Muller once recounted how that actor with this surname peed in a cup during a screening of Born to Kill, his most famous role as a heavy. In a Technicolor film, an actress with this surname plays a saboteur who trips down a staircase to induce her own miscarriage and looks on through sunglasses as her husband’s disabled teenage brother drowns at a lake resort in Maine. (15[2])The lead actress of the supernatural 1940s films The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Heaven Can Wait shares this surname with the boorish actor who played Boss (*) Cabot in Reservoir Dogs. An actress with this surname starred as a femme fatale with an Electra complex in Leave Her to Heaven and played the title murder victim in a noir by Otto Preminger. For 10 points, give this surname of the star of Laura, who had the first name Gene. ■END■ (0[2])

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