The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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1941
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This George Cukor romantic comedy casts Greta Garbo as ski instructor Karin Borg Blake. She gives lessons to wealthy American...
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1941
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A dedicated nurse in a British hospital takes a nervous rookie under her wing. When the new nurse messes up and causes a...
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1940
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1938
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The Bold Caballero, Republic Pictures' first color film, was also the first talkie version of the "Zorro" legend (as...
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Duenna
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1936
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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1935
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It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As...
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1934
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1934
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Surprisingly original for an independent production, Two Heads on a Pillow is a fascinated precursor to the more celebrated...
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1934
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The French/British Don Quixote is a faithful rendition of the Cervantes novel, with a poignant ending added by director...
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Sancho's Wife
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1933
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In this British comedy, a man takes his butler and heads for the African hinterland after he and his fiancee quarrel. The...
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1933
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New Yorker La Plante concocts an imaginary fiance with the name of Lord Michael of Ware to keep the deluge of admirers away....
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1933
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1932
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In this comedy, a domineering mother has already picked out a wealthy husband for her daughter. Unfortunately, the girl...
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1932
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In this comedy, two sisters abruptly abandon the oysterbar they co-own when they win the Irish Sweepstakes. One of the two...
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1932
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A socially prominent wife must choose between avoiding scandal and her own happiness in this British drama. According to...
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1931
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When European princess Lee comes back to her Midwestern hometown, she is thought to be a seamstress and goes along with the...
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1931
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In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically...
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1931
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1930
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The difference between social classes provides the basis for this comedy. The trouble begins when a drunken sot wanders into...
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Mrs. Tidmarsh
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1930
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Two former Fox contractees star in RKO Radio's She's My Weakness, a flat adaptation of Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson's...
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1930
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1930
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Show Boat was a part-silent, part-talkie adaptation of the book by Edna Ferber. The film traces the life of Magnolia Hawkes...
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Parthenia Ann Hawks
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1929
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Forty-five-year-old Irish tenor John McCormack made his screen debut in Song o' My Heart. Fans of McCormack would have been...
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1929
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A lesser-known effort from director Josef Von Sternberg, The Case of Lena Smith has been unfairly chastised for all the wrong...
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Frau Hofrat
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1929
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1929
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The present unavailability of 1928's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is especially frustrating for those who'd like to compare this...
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1928
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The strange and terrible things that the lust for gold can do to the soul comprise the message of this innovative, epic...
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1928
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Though its title was inspired by a popular song, Love Me and the World is Mine was based on Die Geschichte von der Hannerl...
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1928
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While her grandpa is recuperating from an accident, 8-year-old Patsy O'Day (Priscilla Moran) stumbles across an abandoned...
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1928
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Taking time out from his fine series of historical westerns, Colonel Tim McCoy starred in this action melodrama set in China...
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1927
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1927
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This portentously (and pretentiously) titled Fox Studios release stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of...
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1927
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1927
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Former Broadway matinee idol Lou Tellegen tries to recapture his past magic in the 1927 potboiler Married Alive. Tellegan...
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Mrs. Maggs Duxbury
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1927
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One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted...
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Mrs. Gaidaroff
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1927
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Grand Duchess
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1927
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Mrs. Bytheway
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1927
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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1926
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Hungry Arms was written, produced and directed by Anthony Moran. Starred in the leading role was his little daughter...
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Rooming House Keeper
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1926
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Long believed lost, the silent thriller-chiller The Bat finally resurfaced in the mid-1970s and proved well-worth the wait....
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Mrs. Comelici Van Gorder
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1926
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Tom Mix plays an Eastern dandy who finds himself banished to a Western ranch in this routine silent Western which boasted of...
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Abigail Gregg
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1926
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What Happened to Jones takes approximately 70 minutes' screen time to tell in this frothy comedy. On the night before his...
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1926
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That question mark in the film's title should provide a good clue as to the tenor of the storyline. Married to British...
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1926
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The Rafael Sabatini swashbuckler Bardelys the Magnificent served as an excellent vehicle for MGM's top male star...
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Vicomtesse de Lavedan
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1926
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Charles "Buck" Jones, normally a heroic Western star, takes a surprising turn by playing a shiftless rural character in this...
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1925
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The title to this picture came from a Rudyard Kipling poem, and accurately reflected the attitude of Victorian and...
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1925
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This mystery was based on a novel written by 20 popular authors, each of whom contributed a chapter. The point of each...
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Aunt Celimena Moore
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1925
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1925
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Aunt Virginia
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1925
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Polly Pearl (Norma Talmadge) is a bar manager who doubles as a cabaret performer in this romantic melodrama taken from the...
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1925
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Although the theme of this melodrama -- based on the John Golden play Howdy Folks -- was serious, the film also had some...
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1925
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Although this isn't a top-notch Marion Davies film, she's still very charming in it. Mamie Smith (Davies in pigtails and...
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1925
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Betty Bronson, who found overnight success when she played the title character in Peter Pan, has the ingenue lead in this...
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1925
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1925
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Adapted from a novel by Julian LaMothe, The Winding Stair stars Edmund Lowe as Paul, a fearless French Foreign Legion...
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Mme. Muller
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1925
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Three of Hollywood's more enterprising women created this sentimental treatise on sin and redemption: Mrs. Wallace Reid (the...
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1925
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Meg
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1925
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After the death of her father, Marise La Noue (Enid Bennett) can find no safe haven, so she runs off to Paris with Jean...
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1924
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1924
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Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia (John Gilbert), is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except...
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Princess Ardacheff
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1924
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Matilda Heath
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1924
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After a series of less-than-stellar pictures, Norma Talmadge tried something a little different with this sentimental...
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1924
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Aunt Isabel
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1924
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1923
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This light comedy is based on the stage play Dear Me written by Luther Reed and Hale Hamilton. Madge Kennedy returned from...
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Mrs. Carney
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1923
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People do all kinds of nutty things in this silent melodrama from producer/director Maurice Tourneur. Take Ramon Martinez...
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1923
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In the early 1920s Fred Niblo was known for directing adventure films -- he had already done Mark of Zorro and The Three...
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1923
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Joseph C. Lincoln was a popular writer of the day who specialized in stories about life in Cape Cod, and this romantic drama...
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Mrs. James Colton
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1922
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This rough melodrama about a family of Kentucky moonshiners was directed, surprisingly, by the staid, British Charles J....
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Mrs. Tolliver
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1922
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For a while, Mae Murray and her then-husband, director Robert Z. Leonard, were an unstoppable team. They had their own...
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Maequesa de Lisa , her aunt
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1922
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Grace Davison, a minor, long-forgotten silent star, has the lead in this ordinary, independently made drama. While on...
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1922
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Hugo Ballin directed his wife Mabel Ballin in this slow and unmoving adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's oft-filmed novel. Jane...
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1921
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Chorus girl Flo Maddie (Alice Brady) turns down the attentions of the womanizing Ned Ormsby (Charles Gerard) in favor of Ross...
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1921
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Established stage actress Emily Fitzroy easily steals the show from the stars of this drama, Pauline Starke and Percy...
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Mrs. Dole
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1921
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This moderately low-budget comedy-drama was nevertheless well-made. It had a good foundation -- the scenarist was Frances...
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1921
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"I'm not a bad businessman", filmmaker D.W. Griffith once protested, "Honestly I'm not!" Yet industryites were certain that...
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1920
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Former ingenue Alice Brady took her first step towards the dizzy society matrons she'd play in the talkie era in the 1920...
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1920
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Helen Stevens (Corinne Griffith) is that classic movie heroine: the society miss who insists on making her own living. She...
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1920
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In this tale of high society, Blanche Sterling (Corinne Griffith) is a spoiled young woman who weds a man who's after her...
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1919
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Mrs. Henry Wood's war-horse novel and play East Lynne has been filmed so often that we've lost count. This 1916 version was...
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1916
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