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- ↑ Koszarski, Richard (2008). Hollywood on the Hudson : film and television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. pp. 154–157. ISBN 978-0-8135-4552-3. OCLC 289908131.
- ↑ "Don't Bet on Love. 1933. Directed by Murray Roth | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
- ↑ Payne, Robert (2014). Gershwin. New York: J. Boylston & Company, Publishers. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-883283-93-3. OCLC 1082202452.
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