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An essay by this writer profiles the life and suicide of Pepi Lederer, with whom this writer often stayed at the Hearst estate. While patronized by the George Eastman House, this author wrote that biographers confused the quiet star of The Petrified Forest for a persona in the essay “Humphrey and Bogey.” This writer recalled that she was working as a call girl when her films were (-5[1])repopularized by 50s critics like Henri Langlois. The projected woman Faustine in The (*) Invention of Morel was inspired by Adolfo Bioy (10[1])Casares’s obsession with this actor-turned-writer. This actor absconded to Berlin in 1929 with George Preston Marshall, where she starred in Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora’s (10[1])Box. For 10 points, what bobbed flapper icon wrote Lulu in Hollywood? (10[1])■END■

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