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- ↑ Pitts p.392
- 1 2 Film Executive Trem Carr Dies of Heart Attack Los Angeles Times (19 Aug 1946: A1.
- ↑ TREM CARR, FIGURE IN FILM INDUSTRY: Production Chief at Monogram Once Head of Independent Producers Group, Is Dead Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES 19 Aug 1946: 18.
- ↑ FILM PRODUCTION MOVED: Trem Carr Operations Transferred From Hollywood to Mack Sennett Plant at Studio City Los Angeles Times 9 Sep 1928: E4.
- ↑ SCREEN NOTES New York Times 20 Oct 1934: 20.
- ↑ FILM GROUP CHANGES ITS CORPORATE NAME: Monogram to Be Succeeded in August by Republic Pictures -- Schedule Increased. New York Times 13 Apr 1935: 11.
- ↑ MACLEAN SPLITS WITH GRAND NATIONAL; NEW ALLIANCE HINTED: Trem Carr Lines Up With Charles Rogers Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 6 Mar 1937: A7.
- ↑ Monogram Pictures Wall Street Journal 1 Nov 1937: 7.
- ↑ OUT HOLLYWOOD WAY: The Voice of the Turtle" MORE NEWS OUT OF HOLLYWOOD Coastscripts By THOMAS F. BRADYVandamm. New York Times 8 Sep 1946: X1.
