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- ↑ "Greater Love Hath No Man". TCM. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
- ↑ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress (<-book title) p.72 c.1978
- ↑ "Press Release - Whitney Museum of American Art".
