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At the end of the last film starring these two actors, one of them hallucinates that a dog is a naked man after their sibling characters each deal with divorces. In a film that inspired the car accident scene from All About My Mother, these two actors play actors who improvise a play’s final act. The film scholar Ray Carney has feuded with these two actors’ estate over the re-discovered first cut (15[1])of a film about a trumpeter who falls in love with a white-passing Black woman. (15[1])In a film directed by these two actors’ (*) son Nick, one of them (10[1])plays a character (10[1])who briefly overcomes her dementia to dance to the song “I’ll Be Seeing You” at a nursing home. These two actors’ own mothers played the mothers of the Longhettis in a 1974 film about a housewife newly released from an institution. For 10 points, name these two married actors who made independent films together like Minnie and Moskowitz and A Woman Under the Influence. ■END■

ANSWER: Gena Rowlands AND John Cassavetes [accept Virginia Cathryn Rowlands in place of “Gena Rowlands”; accept John Nicholas Cassavetes in place of “John Cassavetes”; prompt on the Cassavetes family] (The first line refers to their film Love Streams. The second line refers to their film Opening Night. The Nick Cassavetes film is The Notebook.)
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