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- ↑ Menefee, David W. (2004). The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 177. ISBN 9780275982591.
- ↑ McCaffrey, Donald W.; Jacobs, Christopher P. (1999). Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema . Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 90–91. ISBN 9780313303456.
- ↑ Lowe, Denise (27 January 2014). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930. Routledge. p. 1945. ISBN 9781317718963.