Question

Dick Avery dances with a cape and one of these objects while singing “Let’s Kiss and Make Up” in Funny Face. In a film named after these objects, a woman sings to a man that “you smell of gasoline” to which he responds “it’s just another perfume”. Madame Émery and her daughter Geneviève run a boutique that sells these objects in a Jacques Demy film. A parrot-themed (15[1])one of these objects says (*) “that’s gratitude for you” as its owner watches the Banks family at the end of a 1964 film. Don Lockwood sings that he’s (10[1])“laughing at clouds so dark up above” while hanging on to a lamppost and holding one of these objects. For (10[1])10 points, Gene Kelly’s character twirls around what sort of object while performing (-5[1])“Singin’ in the Rain”, which is also what Mary Poppins uses to fly? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: umbrellas [accept The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; accept Les Parapluies de Cherbourg]
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