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- ↑ Orquesta Club Virginia at IMDb.
- ↑ Maria Lamor at Foreign Films.com.
- ↑ Bernard P. E. Bentley, A Companion to Spanish Cinema (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008). p266.
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