Gertrude Astor

Gertrude Astor

Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, she was most frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, golddiggers and "heroine's best pal". Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as Laura LaPlante's wisecracking travelling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927). Astor worked prolifically at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase. She was also kept busy at Columbia Pictures' short subjects unit. She continued to play bits in feature films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was briefly glimpsed as the first murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Scarlet Claw and was among the ranks of dress extras in 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In her later years, Astor was a welcome guest at several Sons of the Desert gatherings, and became an honorary member of the Way Out West tent. She died in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke. She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1887-11-09
Place of Birth: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Also Known As: Gertrude Aster, Gertrude Irene Eyster

Movies List of Gertrude Astor

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Deep in My Heart

1954 Movie
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Easy Living

1937 Movie
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The Virgin Queen

1955 Movie
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Frozen Justice

1929 Movie
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Her Mad Bargain

1921 Movie
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The Fatal Warning

1929 Movie
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The Scarlet Crystal

1917 Movie
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Hollywood

1923 Movie
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Under Two Flags

1915 Movie
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The Lash of Power

1917 Movie
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What Am I Bid?

1919 Movie
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The Wolf Man

1941 Movie
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The Girl Who Won Out

1917 Movie
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The Old Soak

1926 Movie
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The Ninety and Nine

1922 Movie
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Bombs and Banknotes

1917 Movie
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The Family Group

1928 Movie
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Chasing Husbands

1928 Movie
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Skin Deep

1922 Movie
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The Wanters

1923 Movie
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The Devil's Hand

1961 Movie
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Come Clean

1931 Movie
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The Strong Man

1926 Movie
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My Man Godfrey

1957 Movie
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Wine, Women and Song

1933 Movie
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Loot

1919 Movie
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Uncle Tom's Cabin

1927 Movie
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Rupert of Hentzau

1923 Movie
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Fort Osage

1952 Movie
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The Old West

1952 Movie
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Through The Back Door

1921 Movie
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Don Juan's 3 Nights

1926 Movie
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Here Comes Trouble

1948 Movie
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You Never Know

1922 Movie
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The Wicked Darling

1919 Movie
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Reap the Wild Wind

1942 Movie
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The Drunkard

1935 Movie
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Bucking Broadway

1917 Movie
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Stage Struck

1925 Movie
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Broadway or Bust

1924 Movie
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Wife Tamers

1926 Movie
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Be Yourself!

1930 Movie
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All Over Town

1937 Movie
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Lorna Doone

1922 Movie
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The Kentucky Derby

1922 Movie
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Live and Learn

1930 Movie
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Carnival Lady

1933 Movie
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Rich Relations

1937 Movie
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Running Hollywood

1932 Movie
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Wedding Belles

1934 Movie
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Kiki

1926 Movie
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Dizzy Daddies

1926 Movie
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All in a Night's Work

1961 Movie
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They Never Come Back

1932 Movie
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Dames Ahoy

1930 Movie
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Untamed

1929 Movie
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I Have Lived

1933 Movie
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I Don't Remember

1935 Movie
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The Small Bachelor

1927 Movie
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Frisco Lil

1942 Movie
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Kentucky Pride

1925 Movie
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Secrets

1924 Movie
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Synthetic Sin

1929 Movie
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The Boy Friend

1926 Movie
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Dragonwyck

1946 Movie
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In Walked Charley

1932 Movie
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While Paris Sleeps

1932 Movie
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Calcutta

1946 Movie
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The Branding Iron

1920 Movie
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Beyond the Rocks

1922 Movie
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Behind the Front

1926 Movie
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Wells Fargo

1937 Movie
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The Llano Kid

1939 Movie
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Sergeant Rutledge

1960 Movie
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A Star Is Born

1954 Movie
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Poker Widows

1931 Movie
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Here Comes the Band

1935 Movie
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All About Eve

1950 Movie
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Northern Frontier

1935 Movie
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The Women

1939 Movie
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Sitting Pretty

1948 Movie
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Empty Saddles

1936 Movie
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Dust Be My Destiny

1939 Movie
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Oh, What a Man!

1927 Movie
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Ship of Wanted Men

1933 Movie
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Sister Kenny

1946 Movie
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My Dear Secretary

1948 Movie
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Again Pioneers

1950 Movie
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Postal Inspector

1936 Movie
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Woman in Hiding

1950 Movie
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Monsieur Verdoux

1947 Movie
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The Torrent

1924 Movie
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Hold Back the Dawn

1941 Movie
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Guilty Parents

1934 Movie
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Cappy Ricks Returns

1935 Movie
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Western Limited

1932 Movie
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Tell 'Em Nothing

1926 Movie
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Ginsberg the Great

1927 Movie
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Twin Beds

1929 Movie
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The Scarlet Claw

1944 Movie
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The Charmer

1925 Movie
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Angel Face

1953 Movie
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Misbehaving Husbands

1940 Movie
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Sunset Boulevard

1950 Movie
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Scared Stiff

1953 Movie
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It's in the Air

1935 Movie
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The Tingler

1959 Movie
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Cheyenne's Pal

1917 Movie
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Two Rode Together

1961 Movie
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Scandal Sheet

1952 Movie
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The Reckless Sex

1925 Movie
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Daddy Long Legs

1955 Movie
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Border Brigands

1935 Movie
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3 Godfathers

1948 Movie
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Lost Canyon

1942 Movie
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Tassels in the Air

1938 Movie
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Idaho

1943 Movie
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Honeymoon Limited

1935 Movie
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The Avenging Rider

1943 Movie
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The Kansan

1943 Movie
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Paula

1952 Movie
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San Francisco

1936 Movie
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Two Weeks Off

1929 Movie
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The Taxi Dancer

1927 Movie
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Polly Redhead

1917 Movie
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When Worlds Collide

1951 Movie
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Flaming Gold

1932 Movie
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A Place in the Sun

1951 Movie
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The Sound of Music

1965 Movie
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The Fall of Eve

1929 Movie
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The Ne'er-Do-Well

1923 Movie
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Music Man

1948 Movie
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The Cheerful Fraud

1926 Movie
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$1,000 a Touchdown

1939 Movie
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A Woman of Affairs

1928 Movie
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Fun on a Weekend

1947 Movie
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Leave Her to Heaven

1945 Movie
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Bondage

1917 Movie
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The Devil's Pay Day

1917 Movie
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The Brazen Beauty

1918 Movie
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The Rescue

1917 Movie
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The Little Orphan

1917 Movie
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Bunco Squad

1950 Movie
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Hurricane's Gal

1922 Movie
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Robes of Sin

1924 Movie
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Swingin' on a Rainbow

1945 Movie
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The Concert

1921 Movie
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Moontide

1942 Movie
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No More Ladies

1935 Movie
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Seeing's Believing

1922 Movie
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Rose-Marie

1928 Movie
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Hell Bound

1931 Movie
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Wichita

1955 Movie
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Thunder on the Hill

1951 Movie
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Great Guy

1936 Movie
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The Wall Flower

1922 Movie
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The Climax

1944 Movie
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The Silent Watcher

1924 Movie
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Crook's Tour

1933 Movie
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Weird Woman

1944 Movie
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Satan in Sables

1925 Movie
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The Female Animal

1958 Movie
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Caged

1950 Movie
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The Horse Soldiers

1959 Movie
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Crack-Up

1946 Movie
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The Country Beyond

1926 Movie
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I'll Take Vanilla

1934 Movie
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Laughing Ladies

1925 Movie
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Washee Ironee

1934 Movie
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Borrowed Finery

1925 Movie
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Dick Tracy

1945 Movie
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The Merry Widow

1952 Movie
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