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Stanley Cavell emphasized a scene by this director in which a singer’s clothes are blown upwards in her nightclub act “Gone With The Wind” for his final example of a “comedy of remarriage.” Viña Delmar’s two screenplays were both for this director, who made a film in which a woman is told to “face facts” by her granddaughter and distracts a bridge class by rocking in her creaky chair. A film by this director ends with a shot of two miniatures entering a cuckoo clock as it tolls midnight, marking the legal start of a (*) divorce. Tokyo Story is reportedly a loose remake (10[1])of a film by this director (10[1])in which an elderly (10[1])couple lose their home to the bank. For 10 points, what director of Make Way For Tomorrow and The Awful Truth had the first name Leo? ■END■

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