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- ↑ Herzog, "Buck". "The New Films; 'Another Dawn' and 'Meet the Missus' at Warner; 'Circus Girl' at Riverside" (Milwaukee Sentinel, June 26, 1937)
- ↑ press kit containing reproductions of posts and lobby cards for Meet the Missus
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