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- ↑ "Walter Winchell On Broadway". Courier-Post . February 26, 1937. p. 17. Retrieved August 16, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Wake Up and Live". American Film Institute. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
