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- ↑ Herbert Coleman: The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir. Lanham, Maryland, 2007, p. 18.
- ↑ Academy Awards 1938
- ↑ Academy Awards 1940
- ↑ Academy Awards 1945