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- ↑ Somewhere in America
- ↑ "Official "Hellcats" Soundtrack Cover Art". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2011-06-13.
- ↑ Corri English from Brokedown Cadillac Poses on the Set of Hellcats Archived January 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine