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- ↑ "Marlow Again in Entertainment Field". Everyones. 24 March 1928. p. 3.
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- 1 2 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 28
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