Round 3: Tossup 1

This writer satirically wrote that a femme fatale must end a film by dying, “preferably on three steps, covered by a rug” in “A Short Manual for the Aspiring Scenario Writer.” This writer, who expunged all film criticism from her 1948 Complete Works, based her script for the Max Ophüls film Divine on her own time performing in music halls. This writer personally chose Audrey Hepburn to star in Anita (15[1])Loos’s stage (15[1])version of one of her books, launching Hepburn’s career. A Freed Unit adaptation of that novella by this author includes the song (*) “I Remember It Well” and Maurice Chevalier’s opening number “Thank Heaven for Little Girls.” For 10 points, a Lerner and Loewe musical starring Leslie Caron as a courtesan-in-training adapts what author’s novella Gigi? ■END■ (10[1])

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