Final Jeopardy: American Authors (5-21-21)

Here are some more clues from the 5/21/2021 Jeopardy! game:

PAINTING, NOT THE ART KIND ($200) Earl Scheib started making money painting these in the 1930s at the corner of Whitworth & Fairfax in Los Angeles

YOU’RE IN THE HOLE ($1600) Seen here (IMAGE) is an early 20th century machine for this, which the U.S. Postal Service began doing in 1857

The players got all the clues in SHE SANG IT IN A MOVIE

($400) 1953: “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend”
($800) 2006: “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going”
($1200) 2005: “Wildwood Flower” & “Jackson” (with an assist from Joaquin Phoenix)
($1600) 2012: “Cups”, a cappella with an actual cup
($2000) 2014: “Witch’s Lament”, written by Stephen Sondheim

ANSWERS: show

Sneak Peek clues — 20TH CENTURY TV
($200) The title of this 1970s series refers to a wealthy guy on speakerphone & the 3 women who work as detectives for him
($400) This actor drove the Knight Industries Two Thousand– KITT, for short– before heading for the beach in 1989
($600) Barbara Eden could literally grant Larry Hagman any wish he could think of in this 1960s sitcom.. but he wouldn’t let her!
($800) In 1980 Tom Hanks came aboard this ABC show as Rick Martin; hope he tipped Isaac the bartender well
($1000) Robert Downey Jr. told this lawyer played by Calista Flockhart: “If you need a sympathetic ear, I can fake it”

ANSWERS: show