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Bette Davis black and white / Julia A. Stern Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Call No: 81 DAV STEAuthor: Stern, Julia A. Edition: 2021Place: ChicagoPublisher: University of Chicago PressPubDate: 2021PhysDes: xi, 266 pages : illustratedSubject: DAVIS, BETTE ; ANDERSON, ERNIE ; BALDWIN, JAMES ; CRAWFORD, JOAN ; IN THIS OUR LIFE (US, John Huston, 1942) ; JEZEBEL (US, William Wyler, 1938) ; LITTLE FOXES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1941) ; MCDANIEL, HATTIE ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (US, Robert Aldrich, 1962) ; WYLER, WILLIAM Summary: Bette Davis’s career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations.
Bette Davis was not only one of Hollywood’s brightest stars, but also one of its most outspoken advocates on matters of race. In Bette Davis Black and White, Julia A. Stern explores this largely untold facet of Davis’s brilliant career.
Bette Davis Black and White analyzes four of Davis’s best-known pictures—Jezebel (1938), The Little Foxes (1941), In This Our Life (1942), and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)—against the history of American race relations. Stern also weaves in memories of her own experiences as a young viewer, coming into racial consciousness watching Davis’s films on television in an all-white suburb of Chicago.
Davis’s egalitarian politics and unique collaborations with her Black costars offer Stern a window into midcentury American racial fantasy and the efforts of Black performers to disrupt it. This book incorporates testimony from Davis’s Black contemporaries, including James Baldwin and C. L. R. James, as well as the African American fans who penned letters to Warner Brothers praising Davis’s work. A unique combination of history, star study, and memoir, Bette Davis Black and White allows us to contemplate cross-racial spectatorship in new ways. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780226813868Contents: Historical Note -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Black and White -- Chapter 2 Little Foxes and Little Brown Wrens -- Chapter 3 The Poetics of Color in Jezebel -- Chapter 4 Melodramas of Blood in In This Our Life -- Chapter 5 The Whiteness of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? -- Chapter 6 Bette Davis Black and White -- Acknowledgments -- Notes – Index.
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Crawford, Joan
Call No: PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: Crawford, Joan
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The films of Joan Crawford / by Lawrence J. Quirk New York: Citadel Press, 1968].
Call No: 81CRA QUIAuthor: Quirk, Lawrence J Edition: [1st ed.]Place: New YorkPublisher: Citadel PressPubDate: 1968]PhysDes: 220 p. illus. 29 cmSubject: Crawford, Joan LON: 68019125; 716962
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From reverence to rape : the treatment of women in the movies / Molly Haskell Harmondsworth Eng. Baltimore: Penguin, 1974.
Call No: 451-02 HASAuthor: Haskell, Molly Place: Harmondsworth Eng. BaltimorePublisher: PenguinPubDate: 1974PhysDes: xiv, 388 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cmSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; ASTOR, MARY ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; BOW, CLARA ; Crawford, Joan ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; DAY, DORIS ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HOLLIDAY, JUDY ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; MONROE, MARILYN ; RUSSELL, ROSALIND ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; WILDER, BILLY ; DUNNE, IRENE ; WOMEN, THE (US, George Cukor, 1939) ; BEYOND THE FOREST (US, King Vidor, 1949) ; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948) ; DESIGN FOR LIVING (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1933) ; ADAM'S RIB (US, George Cukor, 1949) ; ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (US, Douglas Sirk, 1955) Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0140039465 : ª0.95 ($3.95 U.S.)LON: 74194670; 352052
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Guilty pleasures : feminist camp from Mae West to Madonna / Pamela Robertson Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Call No: 626:396 ROBAuthor: Robertson, Pamela, 1964 Place: DurhamPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: ix, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: CAMP ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; WOMEN IN FILMS ; BURLESQUE ; TRANSVESTISM ; FANS ; MUSICALS ; BAXTER, WARNER ; CAGNEY, JAMES ; DOANE, MARY ANN ; DYER, RICHARD ; GARBO, GRETA ; BERKELEY, BUSBY ; FISCHER, LUCY ; OTTINGER, ULRIKE ; MONROE, MARILYN ; MADONNA ; Crawford, Joan ; WEST, MAE ; DESIGNING WOMEN [TV] (US, 1986-89) ; BELLE OF THE NINETIES (US, Leo McCarey, 1934) ; FOOTLIGHT PARADE (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1933) ; [FORTY-SECOND] 42ND STREET (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1933) ; JOAN DOES DYNASTY [TV] (US, Joan Braderman, 1986) ; GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1933) ; JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954) Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Chicago); Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-187) and indexISBN: 0822317486 (pa : alk. paper); 0822317516 (cl : alk. paper)LON: 12009413
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Hollywood color portraits / by John Kobal, Introduction by Carlos Clarens New York: Quill, c1981.
Call No: 802.27(084.2) KOBAuthor: Kobal, John Edition: 1st Quill ed.Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: QuillPubDate: c1981PhysDes: 159 p. : col. ill. ; 30cmSubject: ACTORS ; PHOTOGRAPHY ; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; FIELDS, W.C. ; WEST, MAE ; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; LAMOUR, DOROTHY ; SWANSON, GLORIA ; SOTHERN, ANN ; MACDONALD, JEANETTE ; Stewart, James ; YOUNG, LORETTA ; COOPER, GARY ; LEIGH, VIVIEN ; TURNER, LANA ; GARLAND, JUDY ; ROONEY, MICKEY ; MONTEZ, MARIA ; DE HAVILLAND, OLIVIA ; FONTAINE, JOAN ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; DAVIS, BETTE ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; LAMARR, HEDY ; SHERIDAN, ANN ; TIERNEY, GENE ; LAKE, VERONICA ; LADD, ALAN ; CAGNEY, JAMES ; BERGMAN, INGRID ; GODDARD, PAULETEE ; WAYNE, JOHN ; GRABLE, BETTY ; COOPER, GARY ; TAYLOR, ROBERT ; POWER, TYRONE ; HUTTON, BETTY ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; DARNELL, LINDA ; SINATRA, FRANK ; ROGERS, ROY ; TRIGGER (Horse) ; PAL (Canine actor) ; BACALL, LAUREN ; LANCASTER, BURT ; SCOTT, LIZABETH ; DOUGLAS, KIRK ; MIRANDA, CARMEN ; JONES, JENNIFER ; FORD, GLENN ; BALL, LUCILLE ; OBERON, MERLE ; PECK, GREGORY ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; GRAHAME, GLORIA ; GRANT, CARY ; HAYWORTH, RITA ; VALLI, ALIDA ; JOURDAN, LOUIS ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; ROBERT, RYAN ; MITCHUM, ROBERT ; CHARISSE, CYD ; BARKER, LEX ; RUSSELL, JANE ; GARBO, GRETA ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; GARDNER, AVA ; TURNER, LANA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; CRAWFORD, JOAN ; DEAN, JAMES ; NOVAK, KIM ; MANSFIELD, JAYNE ; PRESLEY, ELVIS ; BRANDO, MARLON Summary: "John Kobal, the world's foremost film archivist, has amassed an unrivaled photographic treasure of Hollywood glamour portraits. As an author and noted film historian, he has also been a major force behind the tremendous revival of interest in the work of the great studio photographers such as George Hurrell, Ted Allan, Lazlo Willinger, and Clarence Sinclair Bull.
The selection of photographs in this book extends from the mid-1930s to the 1950s, the period in which color photography became established in Hollywood, and contains 74 spectacular images of the major stars." -- BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 17); Book contains pictures of various Hollywood actorsISBN: 0688007538
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"It's only a movie, Ingrid" : encounters on and off screen / Alexander Walker London: Headline Book Publishing, 1989.
Call No: 67(04) WALAuthor: Walker, Alexander Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Headline Book PublishingPubDate: 1989PhysDes: viii, [312] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 18 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; FESTIVALS. CANNES ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; FULL METAL JACKET (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1987) ; GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) ; SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; BOGARDE, DIRK ; BURTON, RICHARD ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; COOPER, GARY ; Crawford, Joan ; CRAWFORD, NOEL ; DAVIS, BETTE ; EVANS, EDITH ; Fellini, Federico ; FORBES, BRYAN ; GARBO, GRETA ; GIELGUD, JOHN ; GRANT, CARY ; GREENE, GRAHAM ; HARVEY, LAURENCE ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HOWARD, TREVOR ; HUSTON, JOHN ; KAZAN, ELIA ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; Lean, David ; LEIGH, VIVIEN ; LOSEY, JOSEPH ; Shakespeare, William ; TRACY, SPENCER ; TYNAN, KENNETH ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; WELLES, ORSON ; ZINNEMANN, FRED ISBN: 0747230218Contents: -- "Do you mean to say they pay you to go to the movies?" -- "Name the six best films you've ever seen" -- Charlie's Angel and the Culture Minister's walking stick -- A day in the hard-playing hard-working life of a far from mad old woman -- Cary Grant and the Harry Lime connection -- The soft words of Mr Rattigan - the hard blows of Mr Russell --- Even Hollywood princesses don't always live happy ever after -- No need to bribe a film festival jury; it can do that for itself -- What made Marlon Brando stop running and find peace at last -- The girl who blew in with the Boston winds -- Peter O'Toole meets himself, two feet tall and blue-eyed, coming back from a trip abroad -- Random thoughts on the Englishness (or otherwise) of English film actors -- Inexactly expressed sentiments about the most private person I know -- "Why this one and not that one, why one event and not the other?"
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Joseph Mankiewicz : Deauville Film Festival: an exclusive interview with legendary Hollywood figure in Interview (1981) vol.11 iss.11 p.32-34
Author: Ginsberg, Ina PhysDes: ArticleSubject: DEAUVILLE FILM FESTIVAL ; AMERICAN CINEMA ; MANKIEWICZ, JOSEPH L. ; WARHOL, ANDY ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; CRAWFORD, JOAN ; MONROE, MARILYN ; SCREEN ACTORS GUILD ; ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) ; BAREFOOT CONTESSA, THE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954) ; SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (UK, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) ; SLEUTH (UK, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972) Summary: Ina Ginsburg quizzes Joseph Mankiewicz on beautiful women, the thematic focus of various films, his year-long tenure as President of the Screen Actors Guild, and on his famous feud with Cecil B. De Mille. Ginsburg also explores Mankiewicz's career trajectory beginning as a writer, transitioning to a producer for MGM, and finally as a director or Twentieth Century Fox. Andy Warhol joins the interview half-way through as Mankiewicz begins to make a number of contentious statements, including that Joan Crawford was pathetic towards the end of her career and that if Marilyn Monroe had lived longer she would have been a fat, washed-up drunk
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Lovers / Linda Sunshine Atlanta, Ga.: Turner Pub., c1992.
Call No: 802.27 SUNAuthor: Sunshine, Linda Edition: 1st edPlace: Atlanta, Ga.Publisher: Turner Pub.PubDate: c1992PhysDes: 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: LOVE IN FILMS ; GARBO, GRETA ; GILBERT, JOHN ; GABLE, CLARK ; HARLOW, JEAN ; Crawford, Joan ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; ROGERS, GINGER ; LOY, MYRNA ; MACDONALD, JEANETTE ; EDDY, NELSON ; FLYNN, ERROL ; DE HAVILLAND, OLIVIA ; POWELL, WILLIAM ; PIDGEON, WALTER ; GARLAND, JUDY ; ROONEY, MICKEY ; GARSON, GREER ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BACALL, LAUREN ; LEIGH, VIVIEN ; OLIVIER, LAURENCE ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; BURTON, RICHARD ; NEWMAN, PAUL ; WOODWARD, JOANNE ; TRACY, SPENCER ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; ALLEN, WOODY ; Keaton, Diane ; FARROW, MIA Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201), filmographies, and indexISBN: 1878685031 : $29.95LON: 8931051
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Mommie dearest / Christina Crawford Herts: Granada Publishing, 1980.
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Movie merry-go-round / John Paddy Carstairs London: Newnes,
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Movie star : a look at the women who made Hollywood / by Ethan Mordden New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Call No: 451-02 MORAuthor: Mordden, Ethan, 1947 Place: New YorkPublisher: St. Martin's PressPubDate: 1983PhysDes: xii, 296 p., [40] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cmSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; STAR SYSTEM ; ACTORS ; BOW, CLARA ; SWANSON, GLORIA ; PICKFORD, MARY ; GISH, LILLIAN ; GAYNOR, JANET ; SHEARER, NORMA ; GARBO, GRETA ; Crawford, Joan ; LOY, MYRNA ; GARSON, GREER ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; HARLOW, JEAN ; WEST, MAE ; Lombard, Carole ; DAVIES, MARION ; BALL, LUCILLE ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; RUSSELL, ROSALIND ; FAYE, ALICE ; Stanwyck, Barbara ; DAVIS, BETTE ; TEMPLE, SHIRLEY ; GARLAND, JUDY ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; HAYWORTH, RITA ; GRABLE, BETTY ; GARDNER, AVA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; MANSFIELD, JAYNE ; NOVAK, KIM ; HOLLIDAY, JUDY ; HEPBURN, AUDREY ; DAY, DORIS ; ANDREWS, JULIE ; STREISAND, BARBRA ; MINNELLI, LIZA ; BERGMAN, INGRID ; WELCH, RAQUEL ; Keaton, Diane ; FONDA, JANE ; DRESSLER, MARIE ; DUNNE, IRENE ; LAWRENCE, FLORENCE ; BARA, THEDA ; MURRAY, MAE ; MOORE, COLLEEN ; ALLEN, GRACIE ; BLONDELL, JOAN ; TOMLIN, LILY Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [285]-289ISBN: 0312550502 (pbk.); 0312550499LON: 83003024; 2457302
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My Way of Life / Joan Crawford New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
Call No: 81CRA CRAAuthor: Crawford, Joan Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Simon & SchusterPubDate: 1971PhysDes: 224 p. ; 26 cmSubject: Crawford, Joan ISBN: 671209701Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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People will talk / by John Kobal [London]: Aurum Press, 1986.
Call No: 802 (047.53) KOBAuthor: Kobal, John Source: UKPlace: [London]Publisher: Aurum PressPubDate: 1986PhysDes: xvii, 728 p. : ports. ; 25 cmSubject: STARS ; BACLANOVA, OLGA ; BANKHEAD, TALLULAH ; BERGMAN, INGRID ; BLONDELL, JOAN ; BRENT, EVELYN ; BROOKS, LOUISE ; MCCREA, JOEL ; COBURN, BOB ; COLE, JACK ; Crawford, Joan ; DUNNE, IRENE ; DUPREZ, JUNE ; ENGSTEAD, JOAN ; FONTAINE, JOAN ; FREED, ARTHUR ; GISH, DOROTHY ; GODOWSKY, DAGMAR ; HATHAWAY, HENRY ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HOPKINS, MIRIAM ; HORN, CAMILLA ; HURRELL, GEROGE ; LOOS, ANITA ; LOUIS, JEAN ; LINDSAY, LOIS ; LACEY, MADISON ; Lupino, Ida ; MARSHALL, MELBA ; MILESTONE, LEWIS ; MOORE, COLLEEN ; PAN, HERMES ; YOUNG, LORETTA ; POWELL, ELEANOR ; SHERIDAN, ANN ; SHERMAN, VINCENT ; STANLEY, KIM ; Stanwyck, Barbara ; STEN., ANNA ; WEST, MAE ; WILLINGER, LASZLO Summary: Interviews with past Hollywood starsNotes: Includes indexISBN: 0394536606
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Pictures will talk : the life and films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz / by Kenneth L. Geist New York: Scribner, 1978.
Call No: 81MAN GEIAuthor: Geist, Kenneth L Place: New YorkPublisher: ScribnerPubDate: 1978PhysDes: xiii, 443 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX ; UNITED ARTISTS ; WANGER, WALTER ; WARNER BROS. ; BENTON, ROBERT ; CAINE, MICHAEL ; Crawford, Joan ; MANKIEWICZ, JOSEPH L. ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) ; BAREFOOT CONTESSA, THE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954) ; CLEOPATRA (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963) Notes: "The films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz": p. [401]-429; Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0684155001 : $12.95LON: 78001104; 1121216
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Popcorn Venus / Marjorie Rosen New York: Avon, 1974, c1973.
Call No: 451-02 ROSAuthor: Rosen, Marjorie Place: New YorkPublisher: AvonPubDate: 1974, c1973PhysDes: 448 p. : ill. ; 18 cmSubject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; ACTORS ; ARZNER, DOROTHY ; BOW, CLARA ; Crawford, Joan ; DAVIS, BETTE ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; GARBO, GRETA ; GISH, LILLIAN ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; HAYWORTH, RITA ; Lupino, Ida ; MONROE, MARILYN ; NEGRI, POLA ; PICKFORD, MARY ; WEST, MAE Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p.412-424ISBN: 0380001772LON: 1231170
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A portrait of Joan : the autobiography of Joan Crawford / Joan Crawford with Jane Kesner Ardmore London : Frederick Muller, 1962:
Call No: 81CRA CRAAuthor: Crawford, Joan Place: London : Frederick Muller, 1962PhysDes: 256 p. ; 21 cmSubject: Crawford, Joan LON: abn98412266; 14292642
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The salad days : an autobiography / Douglas Fairbanks Jr. London: Fontana, 1989 c1988.
Call No: 81FAI FAIAuthor: Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: FontanaPubDate: 1989 c1988PhysDes: 608 p. [24] p. of plates : ports. ; 18cmSubject: ACTORS ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; OLIVIER, LAURENCE ; PICKFORD, MARY ; BAXTER, WARNER ; DOVE, BILLIE ; GARBO, GRETA ; Crawford, Joan ; HOWARD, LESLIE ; CATHERINE THE GREAT(US, Paul Czinner,1934) ; LITTLE CAESAR (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931) ; DEAD MAN'S CURVE (US, Dan Rosen, 1997) ; MORNING GLORY (US, Lowell Sherman, 1933) ; HAVING WONDERFUL TIME (US, Alfred Santell, 1938) ; GUNGA DIN (US, George Stevens, 1939) Summary: The book covers the family of Douglas Fairbanks jnr, the films he made, his leading ladies, and the friends he made from amongst the stars of HollywoodNotes: Includes index; Includes filmographyISBN: 0006374875
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Stardom : the hollywood phenomenon / Alexander Walker London: Michael Joseph, 1970.
Call No: 465 WALAuthor: Walker, Alexander Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Michael JosephPubDate: 1970PhysDes: 392 p. ; 23 cm.Subject: STARS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; GISH, LILLIAN ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; SENNETT, MACK ; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH ; DAVIS, BETTE ; Crawford, Joan ; GABLE, CLARK ; WAYNE, JOHN ISBN: 0718100832
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