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- ↑ "Audrey Hepburn Wins Stage 'Tony': Gets Perry Award as Best Dramatic Actress". The New York Times , March 29, 1954, p.23
- ↑ "1954 Tony Awards (winners)" infoplease.com, accessed June 22, 2012