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- ↑ "The Fascinating Mrs. Francis". Silent Era. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ↑ "The Fascinating Mrs. Francis". IMDb.com, Inc. 1990–2014. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ↑ Henderson, Robert M. (1970). D.W. Griffith: The Years at Biograph. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 64. ISBN 0374134162.
