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Bill Shirley

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William Jesse "Bill" Shirley (July 6, 1921 – August 27, 1989) was an American actor and tenor/lyric baritone singer who later became a Broadway theatre producer. [1]

87 relations: Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, Actors' Equity Association, Andrés de Segurola, Arthur Godfrey, Aurora (Disney), Barbara Jo Allen, Barbara Luddy, Beverly Hills, California, Boston Terrier, Broadway theatre, California, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, Columbia Pictures, Come to the Stable, Copacabana (nightclub), Crown Hill Cemetery, Dancing in the Dark (1949 film), Darryl F. Zanuck, Debbie Reynolds, Doctors Don't Tell, Ed Kemmer, Ed Wynn, Florence Henderson, Flying Tigers (film), Ford Motor Company, Gale Robbins, General Electric, Ghost singer, Hi'-Neighbor!, Hi, Neighbor, Hollywood, Hollywood Bowl, I Dream of Jeanie (film), Ice-Capades, Ice-Capades Revue, Indianapolis, Jeremy Brett, Keenan Wynn, Korea, Kurt Vonnegut, Las Vegas, Latin Quarter (nightclub), Litton Industries, Live action, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Lung cancer, Madelyn Pugh, Mark Stevens (actor), ..., Mary Costa, Mercy Island, Mocambo (nightclub), Music Circus, My Fair Lady (film), Nancy Goes to Rio, Oh, You Beautiful Doll, On the Street Where You Live, Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty song), Paramount Pictures, Quartermaster, Ray Middleton (actor), Republic Pictures, Riviera (hotel and casino), Ronald Colman, Rookies on Parade, Sailors on Leave, Shortridge High School, Sid Grauman, Sleeping Beauty (1959 film), Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis), Stephen Foster, Summer stock theatre, Sweethearts on Parade, The Ed Wynn Show, The Phantom President, The Railroad Hour, The Sacramento Bee, The Walt Disney Company, Three Little Sisters, Tropicana Las Vegas, United States Army, Verna Felton, Walt Disney, Warner Bros., With a Song in My Heart (film), 20th Century Fox. Expand index (37 more) »

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is a 1952 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, along with Charles Laughton, who reprised his role as the infamous pirate from the 1945 film Captain Kidd.

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Actors' Equity Association

The Actors' Equity Association (AEA), commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance (which is represented by SAG-AFTRA).

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Andrés de Segurola

Andrés Perelló de Segurola (27 March 1874 – 23 January 1953) was a Spanish operatic bass.

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Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead.

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Aurora (Disney)

Princess Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty, is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film Sleeping Beauty (1959).

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Barbara Jo Allen

Barbara Jo Allen (born Marian Barbara Henshall, September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an actress also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Barbara Luddy

Barbara Luddy (May 25, 1908 – April 1, 1979) was an American actress from Great Falls, Montana.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Boston Terrier

The Boston Terrier is a breed of dog originating in the United States of America.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Chevrolet

Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

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Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, or Coke (also Pemberton's Cola at certain Georgian vendors), is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Come to the Stable

Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the true story of the Abbey of Regina Laudis and the two French religious sisters who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital.

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Copacabana (nightclub)

The Copacabana is a New York City nightclub.

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Crown Hill Cemetery

Crown Hill Cemetery is located at 700 West Thirty-Eighth Street in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.

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Dancing in the Dark (1949 film)

Dancing In the Dark is a 1949 Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Irving Reis, starring William Powell and Mark Stevens.

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.

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Debbie Reynolds

Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, humanitarian, and mother of the actress and writer Carrie Fisher.

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Doctors Don't Tell

Doctors Don't Tell is a 1941 American crime film directed by Jacques Tourneur and written by Theodore Reeves and Isabel Dawn.

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Ed Kemmer

Ed Kemmer (October 29, 1921 – November 9, 2004) was an American motion picture and television actor.

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Ed Wynn

Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.

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Florence Henderson

Florence Agnes Henderson (February 14, 1934 – November 24, 2016) was an American actress and singer with a career spanning six decades.

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Flying Tigers (film)

Flying Tigers (a.k.a. Yank Over Singapore and Yanks Over the Burma Road) is a 1942 black-and-white war film from Republic Pictures, produced by Edmund Grainger, directed by David Miller, that stars John Wayne, John Carroll, and Anna Lee.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Gale Robbins

Gale Robbins (born Betty Gale Robbins (or Betty Gale Murphy), May 7, 1921 – February 18, 1980) was an American actress and singer.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Ghost singer

A ghost singer is a professional singer who dubs the singing parts officially credited, or billed, to another person, usually the star or co-star of a musical or film, especially those whose specialty is dancing, acting or for non-musical performers such as celebrities cast in musicals.

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Hi'-Neighbor!

Hi'-Neighbor! is a 1934 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gus Meins.

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Hi, Neighbor

Hi, Neighbor is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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I Dream of Jeanie (film)

I Dream of Jeanie is a 1952 American historical musical film based on the songs and life of Stephen Foster who wrote the song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" from which the title is taken.

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Ice-Capades

Ice-Capades is a 1940 American film.

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Ice-Capades Revue

Ice-Capades Revue is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and written by Bradford Ropes and Gertrude Purcell.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Jeremy Brett

Peter Jeremy William Huggins (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor.

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Keenan Wynn

Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn (July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986) was an American character actor.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Latin Quarter (nightclub)

Latin Quarter (also known as LQ) is a nightclub in New York City.

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Litton Industries

Named after inventor Charles Litton, Sr., Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States, bought by the Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001.

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Live action

Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses actors and actresses instead of animation or animated pictures.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung.

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Madelyn Pugh

Madelyn Pugh (March 15, 1921 – April 20, 2011), sometimes credited as Madelyn Pugh Davis, Madelyn Davis, or Madelyn Martin, was a television writer who became known in the 1950s for her work on the I Love Lucy television series.

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Mark Stevens (actor)

Mark Stevens (born Richard William Stevens, December 13, 1916 – September 15, 1994) was an American actor, one of four who played the lead role in the television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye, which aired on NBC from 1949 to 1954.

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Mary Costa

Mary Costa (born April 5, 1930) is an American opera singer and actress, who is best known for providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney film Sleeping Beauty.

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Mercy Island

Mercy Island is a 1941 American drama that was nominated at the 14th Academy Awards, held in 1941, for Best Score of a Dramatic Picture-which Walter Scharf and Cy Feuer received nominations for.

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Mocambo (nightclub)

The Mocambo was a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8588 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip.

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Music Circus

Music circus is an American theatrical form begun in Lambertville, New Jersey, by St.

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My Fair Lady (film)

My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adapted from the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

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Nancy Goes to Rio

Nancy Goes to Rio is a musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1950.

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Oh, You Beautiful Doll

"Oh, You Beautiful Doll" is a ragtime love song published in 1911 with words by Seymour Brown and music by Nat D. Ayer.

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On the Street Where You Live

"On the Street Where You Live" is a song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, from the 1956 Broadway musical, My Fair Lady.

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Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty song)

"Once Upon a Dream" is a song written in 1959 for the animated musical fantasy film Sleeping Beauty produced by Walt Disney.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Quartermaster

Quartermaster is a military or naval term, the meaning of which depends on the country and service.

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Ray Middleton (actor)

Was at one time also married to Carolyn Sombrotto.

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Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 to 1967, that was based in Los Angeles, California.

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Riviera (hotel and casino)

Riviera (colloquially, "the Riv") was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada, which operated from April 1955 to May 2015.

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Ronald Colman

Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, before emigrating to the USA, and having a successful Hollywood film career, he was most popular during the 1920s, 1930's, and 1940's.

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Rookies on Parade

Rookies on Parade is a 1941 Republic Pictures musical–comedy film that was the studios entry into the pre-World War II Army comedy genre.

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Sailors on Leave

Sailors on Leave is a 1941 American musical film directed by Albert S. Rogell and written by Art Arthur and Malcolm Stuart Boylan.

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Shortridge High School

Shortridge High School is a public high school located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

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Sid Grauman

Sidney Patrick Grauman (March 17, 1879 – March 5, 1950) was an American showman who created two of Hollywood's most recognizable and visited landmarks, the Chinese Theatre and the Egyptian Theatre.

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Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault.

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Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis)

The Indiana State Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a neoclassical monument built on Monument Circle, a circular, brick-paved street that intersects Meridian and Market streets in the center of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Stephen Foster

Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music.

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Summer stock theatre

In American theater, summer stock theatre is a theatre that presents stage productions only in the summer.

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Sweethearts on Parade

Sweethearts on Parade is a 1953 American drama film directed by Allan Dwan, written by Houston Branch, and starring Ray Middleton, Lucille Norman, Eileen Christy, Bill Shirley, Estelita Rodriguez and Clinton Sundberg.

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The Ed Wynn Show

The Ed Wynn Show was an American comedy/variety show originally broadcast from September 22, 1949–July 4, 1950 on the CBS Television Network.

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The Phantom President

The Phantom President is a 1932 American pre-Code musical comedy/political satire film directed by Norman Taurog, and starring George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante.

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The Railroad Hour

The Railroad Hour was a radio series of musical dramas and comedies broadcast from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s.

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The Sacramento Bee

The Sacramento Bee is a daily newspaper published in Sacramento, California, in the United States.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Three Little Sisters

Three Little Sisters is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Olive Cooper.

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Tropicana Las Vegas

The Tropicana Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Verna Felton

Verna Felton (July 20, 1890December 14, 1966) was an American actress who was best known for providing many voices in numerous Disney animated films, as well as voicing Fred Flintstone's mother-in-law Pearl Slaghoople in Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones (1962–1963).

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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With a Song in My Heart (film)

With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shirley

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