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- ↑ "Academy Award Nominee Roizman to Robert Lawrence". Business screen magazine. Vol. 17, no. 1. 1956. p. 14 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "NY Times: Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2008.
- ↑ "The 27th Academy Awards (1955) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Retrieved May 30, 2019.
