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"Now It Can Be Told" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1938 film Alexander's Ragtime Band , where it was introduced by Alice Faye and Don Ameche. [1] It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1938 but lost out to "Thanks for the Memory".

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