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Robertson Hare

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John Robertson Hare (17 December 1891 – 25 January 1979) was an English actor, who came to fame in the Aldwych farces. [1]

87 relations: A Cuckoo in the Nest, A Cuckoo in the Nest (film), A Cup of Kindness (film), A Cup of Kindness (play), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Night Like This (film), A Spot of Bother (film), Aldwych farce, Aldwych Theatre, All Gas and Gaiters, Archdeacon, Are You a Mason? (1934 film), Aren't Men Beasts!, Arsenic and Old Lace (play), Banana Ridge (film), Banana Ridge (play), BBC, Ben Travers, Benny Hill, Blandings Castle, British Empire, Car of Dreams, Covent Garden, Crooks Anonymous, Derek Nimmo, Dirty Work (1934 film), Ernest Clark, Fighting Stock, Foreign Affaires, Frankie Howerd, Friday the Thirteenth (1933 film), George Melly, Gilbert Murray, Harold Pinter Theatre, He Snoops to Conquer, Horace Hodges, Hotel Paradiso (film), Islington, It Pays to Advertise, It's a Boy (film), Jack of All Trades (1936 film), John Barron (actor), Just My Luck (1933 film), Kent, My Wife's Family (1956 film), Naunton Wayne, O.H.M.S. (film), Oedipus Rex, Oh, Daddy!, On Approval (1930 film), ..., One Wild Oat, Our Girl Friday, Out of the Shadow (1961 film), P. G. Wodehouse, Plunder (1931 film), Plunder (play), Pot Luck (1936 film), Raising the Roof, Ralph Lynn, Revue, Rookery Nook (film), Rookery Nook (play), Royal Opera House, Salt and Pepper (film), Seven Keys (film), Shani Wallis, Sitcom, So This Is London (1939 film), Stormy Weather (1935 film), Thark (film), Thark (play), The Magic Box, The Night We Got the Bird, The Young Ones (1961 film), Things Happen at Night, Three Men in a Boat (1956 film), Tom Walls, Tons of Money (1930 film), Tons of Money (play), Turkey Time (film), Turkey Time (play), West End theatre, Wilfrid Hyde-White, William Mervyn, Women Aren't Angels, World War I, You Must Get Married. Expand index (37 more) »

A Cuckoo in the Nest

A Cuckoo in the Nest is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers.

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A Cuckoo in the Nest (film)

A Cuckoo in the Nest is a 1933 British film, directed by Tom Walls, with a script by Ben Travers.

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A Cup of Kindness (film)

A Cup of Kindness is a 1934 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.

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A Cup of Kindness (play)

A Cup of Kindness is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

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A Night Like This (film)

A Night Like This is a 1932 comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Ralph Lynn and Winifred Shotter.

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A Spot of Bother (film)

A Spot of Bother is a 1938 British comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Sandra Storme and Kathleen Joyce.

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Aldwych farce

The Aldwych farces were a series of twelve stage farces presented at the Aldwych Theatre, London, nearly continuously from 1923 to 1933.

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Aldwych Theatre

The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster.

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All Gas and Gaiters

All Gas and Gaiters is a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971.

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Archdeacon

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Syriac Orthodox Church, Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop.

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Are You a Mason? (1934 film)

Are You a Mason? is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Sonnie Hale, Robertson Hare, Davy Burnaby and Gwyneth Lloyd.

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Aren't Men Beasts!

Aren't Men Beasts! is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Billy Milton.

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Arsenic and Old Lace (play)

Arsenic and Old Lace is a play written by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.

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Banana Ridge (film)

Banana Ridge is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Walter C. Mycroft and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and Isabel Jeans.

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Banana Ridge (play)

Banana Ridge is a farce by Ben Travers.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Ben Travers

Ben Travers CBE AFC (12 November 1886 – 18 December 1980) was an English writer.

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Benny Hill

Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for his television programme The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque, and double entendre in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with him at the focus of almost every segment.

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Blandings Castle

Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth (Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth), home to many of his family and the setting for numerous tales and adventures.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Car of Dreams

Car of Dreams is a 1935 British romantic comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and Austin Melford and starring Grete Mosheim, John Mills, Norah Howard and Robertson Hare.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between Charing Cross Road and Drury Lane.

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Crooks Anonymous

Crooks Anonymous is a British comedy film from 1962.

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Derek Nimmo

Derek Robert Nimmo (19 September 193024 February 1999) was an English character actor, producer and author.

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Dirty Work (1934 film)

Dirty Work is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Tom Walls and starring Ralph Lynn, Gordon Harker, Robertson Hare and Basil Sydney.

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Ernest Clark

Ernest Clark (12 February 1912 in London – 11 November 1994) was a British actor of stage, television and film.

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Fighting Stock

Fighting Stock is a 1935 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.

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Foreign Affaires

Foreign Affaires is a 1935 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.

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Frankie Howerd

Francis Alick "Frankie" Howerd, (6 March 1917 – 19 April 1992) was an English comedian and comic actor whose career, described by fellow comedian Barry Cryer as "a series of comebacks", spanned six decades.

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Friday the Thirteenth (1933 film)

Friday the Thirteenth is a 1933 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked.

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George Melly

Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer.

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Gilbert Murray

George Gilbert Aimé Murray, (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres.

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Harold Pinter Theatre

The Harold Pinter Theatre, formerly the Comedy Theatre until 2011,, BBC News, 7 September 2011, accessed 8 September 2011.

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He Snoops to Conquer

He Snoops to Conquer is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel starring George Formby, Robertson Hare, Elizabeth Allan, and Claude Bailey.

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Horace Hodges

Horace Hodges (19 December 1863 – 6 July 1951) was a British stage and film actor and writer.

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Hotel Paradiso (film)

Hotel Paradiso is a Metrocolor 1966 film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Panavision.

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Islington

Islington is a district in Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.

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It Pays to Advertise

It Pays to Advertise is a farce by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett.

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It's a Boy (film)

It's a Boy is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Leslie Henson, Albert Burdon and Edward Everett Horton.

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Jack of All Trades (1936 film)

Jack of All Trades is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and Jack Hulbert and starring Hulbert, Gina Malo and Robertson Hare.

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John Barron (actor)

John Barron (24 December 1920 – 3 July 2004) was an English actor.

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Just My Luck (1933 film)

Just My Luck is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Davy Burnaby and Robertson Hare.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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My Wife's Family (1956 film)

My Wife's Family is a 1956 British comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Ronald Shiner as Doc Knott, Ted Ray, Greta Gynt, Diane Hart and Robertson Hare.

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Naunton Wayne

Naunton Wayne (22 June 1901 – 17 November 1970), was a British character actor, born Henry Wayne Davies in Llanwonno, Glamorgan, Wales.

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O.H.M.S. (film)

O.H.M.S. (US title You're in the Army Now) is a 1937 English adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Wallace Ford, John Mills, Anna Lee and Grace Bradley.

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Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Οἰδίπους Τύραννος IPA), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC.

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Oh, Daddy!

Oh, Daddy! is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and Austin Melford and starring Leslie Henson, Frances Day, Robertson Hare and Barry MacKay.

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On Approval (1930 film)

On Approval is a 1930 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls and also featuring Yvonne Arnaud, Winifred Shotter and Robertson Hare, the same artistes responsible for the Aldwych farces.

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One Wild Oat

One Wild Oat is a 1951 British comedy film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Stanley Holloway, Robertson Hare and Sam Costa with a notable appearance by a pre-stardom Audrey Hepburn as an extra.

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Our Girl Friday

Our Girl Friday (U.S. title The Adventures of Sadie) is a 1953 British comedy film starring Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More and Robertson Hare.

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Out of the Shadow (1961 film)

Out of the Shadow (also known as Murder on the Campus) is a 1961 British thriller film directed by Michael Winner and starring Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Diane Clare, Robertson Hare and Dermot Walsh.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Plunder (1931 film)

Plunder is a 1931 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.

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Plunder (play)

Plunder is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers.

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Pot Luck (1936 film)

Pot Luck is a 1936 British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.

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Raising the Roof

Raising the Roof is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Michael Forlong and featuring Michael Gould, Patricia Davis, Roy Kinnear, David Lodge and Patricia Hayes.

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Ralph Lynn

Ralph Clifford Lynn (8 March 1882 – 8 August 1962) was an English actor who had a 60-year career, and is best remembered for playing comedy parts in the Aldwych farces first on stage and then in film.

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Revue

A revue (from French 'magazine' or 'overview') is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches.

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Rookery Nook (film)

Rookery Nook is a 1930 film farce, directed by Tom Walls, with a script by Ben Travers.

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Rookery Nook (play)

Rookery Nook is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers based on his own 1923 novel.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Salt and Pepper (film)

Salt and Pepper is a 1968 comedy film starring Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Michael Bates, Ilona Rodgers and John Le Mesurier.

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Seven Keys (film)

Seven Keys is a 1961 British crime thriller directed by Pat Jackson and starring Alan Dobie.

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Shani Wallis

Shani Wallis (born 16 April 1933) is an English-born American actress and singer of theatre, television and film, in both her native United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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So This Is London (1939 film)

So This Is London is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton and George Sanders.

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Stormy Weather (1935 film)

Stormy Weather is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare.

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Thark (film)

Thark is a 1932 British film farce, directed by Tom Walls, with a script by Ben Travers.

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Thark (play)

Thark is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers.

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The Magic Box

The Magic Box is a 1951 British, Technicolor, biographical drama film, directed by John Boulting.

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The Night We Got the Bird

The Night We Got the Bird is a 1961 British comedy film and a follow up to the 1959 film The Night We Dropped a Clanger, it was directed by Darcy Conyers and starring Brian Rix, Dora Bryan, Ronald Shiner and Irene Handl.

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The Young Ones (1961 film)

The Young Ones (US title: It's Wonderful to Be Young!) is a 1961 British film musical, directed by Sidney J. Furie and featuring Cliff Richard, Robert Morley as his character's father, Carole Gray as his love interest, and The Shadows as his band.

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Things Happen at Night

Things Happen at Night is a 1947 British supernatural ghost comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Gordon Harker, Alfred Drayton, Robertson Hare and Gwynneth Vaughan.

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Three Men in a Boat (1956 film)

Three Men in a Boat is a 1956 British CinemaScope colour comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards, Shirley Eaton and David Tomlinson.

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Tom Walls

Thomas Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949), known as Tom Walls, was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s.

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Tons of Money (1930 film)

Tons of Money is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Ralph Lynn, Yvonne Arnaud, Mary Brough, Robertson Hare and Gordon James, the same artistes responsible for the Aldwych farces.

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Tons of Money (play)

Tons of Money is a farcical play by British writers Will Evans and Arthur Valentine.

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Turkey Time (film)

Turkey Time is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Tom Walls and starring Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare and Dorothy Hyson.

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Turkey Time (play)

Turkey Time is a farce by Ben Travers.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is a common term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of "Theatreland" in and near the West End of London.

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Wilfrid Hyde-White

Wilfrid Hyde-White (12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was an English character actor of stage, film and television, who achieved international recognition in his later years for his role as Colonel Pickering in the 1964 film version of the musical My Fair Lady.

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William Mervyn

William Mervyn Pickwood (3 January 1912 – 6 August 1976) was an English actor best known for his portrayal of the bishop in the clerical comedy All Gas and Gaiters, the old gentleman in The Railway Children and Inspector Charles Rose in The Odd Man and its sequels.

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Women Aren't Angels

Women Aren't Angels is a 1943 black and white British comedy film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Aldwych Theatre farceurs Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton, with Polly Ward and Joyce Heron.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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You Must Get Married

You Must Get Married is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce and starring Frances Day, Neil Hamilton and Robertson Hare.

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References

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

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