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- ↑ Gerd Gemünden; Mary R. Desjardins (2007-02-28), Dietrich icon, Duke University Press, p. 81, ISBN 978-0-8223-3819-2
- ↑ John Shipman Springer (1966), All talking! all singing! all dancing!: a pictorial history of the movie musical, p. 249
- ↑ Nigel Ryan (28 June – 4 July 2001), The shadows, Al-Ahram Weekly
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