Tossup
This actor popularized the song “Love, your Magic Spell is Everywhere” in Edmund Goulding’s film The Trespasser. In one film, this actor puts on private “follies” that mimic Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp and Max Sennett’s Bathing Beauties. This actor’s namesake production company took a loss on the cult classic Queen Kelly, ending her affair with her financial advisor, Joe Kennedy. This actor turns toward the camera to gesture at (*) “those wonderful people out there in the dark” in a film in which she holds a funeral for a pet chimp. This actor reunited with Erich von Stroheim for a film in which she claims “I’m still big, it’s the pictures that have gotten small.” For 10 points, name this silent movie star who played Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. ■END■
ANSWER: Gloria Swanson (Swanson screens Queen Kelly in Sunset Boulevard and was herself a “Bathing Beauty.”)
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