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Third, though, I feel like it's fair to say this one goes home a fairly sad path suggest, if you're not ready for that, may be saved this one third later. But it is about one of the lesser known, horror, actors that really helped make the genre universals great and money making success of the nineteen thirties, and I wanted to give him a little bit more time in the spotlight, because not many people know about him. We are talking today about Dwight fry and, if you dont know his name Think only people who are really into old school horror might just know it off hand. So it's no shame in that aim. If you don't know it, but you have probably seen at least one or two of his performances, the I did not know his name off hand when you sent this outline over to me, but then what went to look for our work. For it I was like oh yeah,

guy. I'm yes, which I think is what most people do so yeah he's he's due for a little more attention, so the White FRY was born on February twenty second eighteen. Ninety nine and Selina Kansas use the only child of Charles and Ella fry. They were farmers and the five soon move to day we're Colorado. At this point, the family name was spelled f r. Why? With no e at the end and whites mother Ella was a devout christian scientist, so Dwight followed in her spiritual, believes he remains deeply. Religion throughout his life and why it was really artistic as a child. He played the piano and he sang at the age of nine. He envisioned a future for himself was a concert pianist and that really looked for awhile like it would indeed be his path in life. He was allotted by teachers and audiences who attended his recitals as a genius at the keys. He really

as I think, if you would ask most people in Denver the time. Yes, he was going to grow up to be a great famous musician, but eventually he also began to give orations something else he was quite skilled am but then, once he appeared in his high schools, production of the stage play the honeymoon. In June nineteen seventeen acting became his one true love as a performer and by the time he graduated from West Side High School in Denver, he knew he was going to become. An actor, must really wasn't a very I welcome shift men his interests, at least in the view of whites parents, because every said the family were very religious. They were kind of suspicious of the potential depravity and debauchery that could be involved in a clear and acting

but even more than that. Acting just wasn't a career that had a high success rate than the fries really wanted their son to have a stable wife so to soothe his parents. Fears Dwight took it administrative position with the business firm in Denver, but at the same time he also took acting lessons from Douglas FIR banks. Former teacher, Margaret Feely, and it was not long before feely connected her pupil Dwight with the manager of an acting company who offered the aspiring actor a job. The company was the Denham is stuck penny and they operated in a theater and then by from nineteen thirteen nineteen. Thirty two every week that group put on a new play and their offerings ranged from religious huh. Fair to melodrama straight comedy, and really everything in between they did ten performances every week and an evening show every night of the weak with matinees on wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Dwight made his debut, You met the Denham on June, sixteen nineteen eighteen and play called the man from Mexico, but

This may have seemed like an auspicious start for an aspiring young actor. Things really did not quite go as Dwight, for I had hoped he started out only getting small minor roles which was to be expected. But then he realized that is, the company was fully staffed. He wasn't likely to into anything juice ear, so he quit and he world and business school at the universe, Colorado, but he told the head of the company that he would go back to their theatre troop if something better opened up an something better did open up just two months into his studies in business. One of the other actors from the Denham left the true to fight and world, where one Dwight accepted the offer to replace him and when he rejoined the company he started using the f r. Why ease spelling of his name? Basically because he thought it looked better in Brent than the three letters

here we don't know much about the logic of it. Under the mat like why he thought for letters, the Wolesi was better than three, but he did, and that was how his name was spelled for the rest of his life. Reviews of lights. Acting were not exactly a bullion. Initially, he was described as force and as having an unnatural eagerness onstage, but it was also noted by critics, as the season went on, that he got better and better throughout it. I understand this criticism I feel like that, could describe my acting as a teenager, Just the same, the man who had been running the Denham company ADI would word took the entire theatre company to Spokane Washington and he brought Dwight along as the company juvenile

that meant that he would play all of the young man roles in the troops plays this group actually debuted unspoken just after the robber one armistice in the middle of the flu pandemic, and initially they had to delay their opening, because they were quarantined to make sure that all the players were as well and promised in the best of health had during that pandemic people were encourage not to be travelling about not not to be. You know that in large crowded places, so there was certain that these actors had just arrived from another place and what if they were sick- and we all went to their play him- everybody got really potentially mortally ill. So they had to wait for several weeks. Just hang out unspoken, but in Spokane Dwight was very well received with one critic writing met, quote his heart and soul are in his work. He acted in eighteen of the twenty one place at the troop put on that season and even tapped into his

piano playing skills for some of his roles, but the group actually splintered in the middle of the season due to disagreements between Woodward and the theatres business manager. After this Runnin Spokane Dwight made his way to Chicago the way to the ultimate goal of New York and Broadway. He appeared in one play in Chicago. What was the dangerous age before he moved on to New York? Dwight's first work in New York was as a vaudevillian, so he was touring various theaters on a circuit from Montreal to Texas and very light hearted sketches and musical numbers yeah. He kind of felt like that's fine, I'll pay. My dues before I get a big Broadway gig, I can do vaudeville for a little while his first leading role on the vaudeville circuit was in a play called la la Lucille, which featured a well, who were in love but would have to divorce so that the husband could inherit his fortune as because the aunt who is leaving him, this money did not approve of his wife,

This is a musical comedy filled with wacky, mistaken identities and cockamamie schemes, but the start of the run was abysmal. Dwight had been asked in the role without a lot of time to prepare, and that was true of the other performers as well. Many of them just no they're lines, one critic even called it haha loose. He'll and almost all of the early reviews pan the production things did get better. The tour went on now, and it ran for ten weeks therein The stories about how you could actually here the script people in the wings saying more of the lines than the actors on stage earlier. They were trying to stage whisper. All their lines to them- and it was echoing throughout the theater, but it did get much better. Dwight next signed on with the Merkel harder repertory company, which kept a really gruelling tour schedule. The group got Sundays off from performing which

is not the case with a lot of touring companies, but David two shows a day every other day of the week, so they were still doing twelve shows a week, but soon in May nineteen. Twenty one Dwight took a job with a non touring stock company in Massachusetts, so we ve talked on so before about How really demanding the schedules of these kinds of jobs can be? And in the case of fries troop, the colonial players, they rehearsed in the mornings a lunch if they had I'm too then went in to make up to press for a matinee, followed by the evening show and every week. Opened. A new play yeah so I know we ve talked about this before, but it always is just a little bit for ripening and leaves me an odd to think about the idea that your rehearsing and new play every week as your adding it to the place you are performing in the evenings. Exhausting Dwight was next lured.

Two spoken by his former employer Woodward and his return was warmly received by theatre goers. They had actually really missed him. I'm mentioned earlier. He had been really popular when he was there the first time, even though at that point a couple years had gone by, he was surprised at how warmly the audience greeted him on his return. Wild white enjoy it getting to be the beloved returning actor. He still saw this as a d, you're from his ultimate goal of Broadway, but he also met a woman named Laura May Boulevard stage, name Laura leave in his second Runnin Spokane Laura and Light were cast as each other.

Romantic interests, and later Dwight would comment that they basically got paid to fall in love, and they were very happy to oblige, but they didn't stay together. They are both hustling to get their act and career started, so neither of them felt they could really be tied down your they call equates to him of the season so before we get to the next stage of Deutz career, we're gonna, take a quick break in here from one of the sponsors that keeps us show going situated on. The beautiful cable beach by Hamas is a spectacular resort destination in the Bahamas. With your choice of three ocean front hotels, the grand high it s less and rosewood. This is the place to find your perfect Glinda luxury relaxation and a lot of fun whatever you're looking for you can find it at Baja, MAR the Bahamas most exciting, culinary destination, the resort

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after about second run in Spokane Acting opportunities, weren't exactly following at Dwight Fries feet. So he decided to return to Denver Briefly to visit his parents and think things through any actually considered quitting the theater and going back to business in a surprising move. His parents were like no, no, this is your dream, do it, even though they had been super thrilled about acting initially and before he could get to attach to the idea of becoming a business man, he went back to message who sits and he joined the colonial players for their nineteen twenty two summer season and that proved to be a very smart decision. One of the whites fans and Massachusetts asked a connection from Broadway to come and see a colonial players show and Scout Dwight fry and the producer Rock Pemberton was impressed with what he saw so much so that you signed fry to a contract after seeing him an exact

one play Dwight finished the summer season with the colonial players and then headed to Broadway to appear in a play called the plot. Thickens Dwight made his brow. Play debut on September fifth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty two and while the play itself didn't get good reviews. So I did. The plot. Thickens only ran for fifteen shows, but right after Dwight immediately started a new play, the absurdist six characters in search of an author tests staging one in Scarborough Hudson and one for the incarcerated population of things in Correctional facility Bennett on Broadway on October, thirtieth and fry got good reviews. The play ran for a hundred and thirty seven shows, which was way beyond its planned for weak run yeah. That was not really a common practice to go to a prison and run a potential broadway play as a test audience, but Brac Pemberton was a little bit outside the box in his thinking. He was like

Well, there are no critics there, so you don't have to worry about that, and I will see what an audience who actually wants to be entertained. Thinks of this policy, which is pretty interesting in terms of liquor, process, Laura Avant debates girlfriend from Spokane had also Her way to New York choose working as a dancing girl, late, nineteen, twenty two a great time for debate fry because his career was taking off, they were back together He was in love after six characters in search of an author, Dwight moved on to a comedy called Rita Coventry replied one of the titular character as romantic interests, who is also a musician the play opened at the Bijou theater on February 19th, one thousand nine hundred and twenty three and it put fry on the map. Reviews talked about how the show drag until fry showed up, and then it became delightful The next morning, Dwight and Laura read the reviews together over breakfast and based on the success of Rita Coventry Brok, Pemberton signed twenty four year old, Dwight fry to a five year contract for

Then his career continued with a series of other well received performance. Is he also returned as a featured guessed, the colonial players in Pittsfield Massachusetts in the summer of nineteen twenty three, and he was the darling of that summer season? He even reprise his role in Riga, Coventry with that start company them. Google d sitting pretty on Broadway on April eighth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty four and, as the start, Dwight delighted, critics and audiences. It was during this time that powerful critic, Charles a Collins, lauded fry as the next on Barrymore yeah. At one point he was actually put on the list of lake. The the ten best stars of Broadway, which was pretty huge at the time one thousand nine hundred and twenty five melodrama puppets Dwight play the villain. A white slaver named Frank Mohacs. This was a departure from the role that he had been playing up to that point. Cuz he had done a lot of musicals in a lot of comedy and light fare and the critics and audience is a door.

In this villainous role, this was followed by the show, a man's man in nineteen twenty five, which is a story about a married couple. Yearns for more in the ways that their desires are twisted by others for their own designs. While white fry had been allotted and praised for his work. Up to that point, a man's man truly made him a star. The reviews were all praise and white called it one of his favorite roles. And man ran for a hundred and twenty shares and whites CO star in the play, Josephine Hutchinson later talked about how immersed fry would become in the role. In essence, he was method acting before that was a common technique of actors. She once told Writer Gregory, William Mank quote Dwight would come into the air and so hypnotize himself into Israel every night that I was afraid, he'd kill me yeah. He was, he was an emergency

away beginning at the end of nineteen twenty six and running well into nineteen. Twenty seven Dwight was in a comedy play the title of which utterly charms me. It was the devil in the cheese this play a plot as de as one might expect, with an egyptian God appearing to grant one of the characters a wish after that man, it's a piece of mummified two thousand year old cheese. I feel like this a cautionary tale about our Uttereth episode, either in the cast along Dwight FRY was also a foreign born actor, whose career would end up tied to Dwight's down the road, and that was Bela Lugosi both go see and fry got the best reviews of the cast, but they didn't become friends after the devil in the cheese ended, its successful run. Lugosi went on So the Broadway Protection of Dracula and White FRY went on to a whole string of job some successful and some not, but he was consistently reviewed positively.

Yeah. He was one of those actors that, even if the play was clunker, they would always go but joy for I was great, like he was kind of the saving Greece of a lot of shows in one thousand. Five hundred and twenty eight Dwight had great success in Mema. This time is another villain, a very cruel pimp with a nickname, Alphonse, the spider no reviews of that play which was set in hell and had a constant swirl of rumours about how the entire cas nearly had nervous breakdowns from the way that the report this had been run. We're not good who is not lower, viewed at all, but the dark nature of the material and the spectacle of the production, it was one of those shows where the sets were really lavish. Expensive can t you to draw audiences, it made. A ton of money was a huge success and it ran for a hundred and eighty shows on August. First, one thousand nine hundred and twenty eight Dwight and Laura got married they honeymoon in Bermuda. Her career was out

really blossoming and during the run of Mima, she was in rehearsals and opening a Broadway show called congratulations that open in April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty nine and they ran for thirty, nine shows. After a very successful one thousand nine hundred and twenty eight twenty nine season for Dwight in New York, he opted to once again return to the colonial players in July of nineteen, twenty, in for another guest engagement there and at the end of nineteen, twenty nine Deutz Broadway Career was undeniably successful, but as the Wall Street crashed through New York into a tailspin, because a leather people that were paying for Broadway tickets were suddenly without money. A Hollywood beckoned to a lot of theatre actors, the White and Laura move to LOS Angeles and the right sort of acting and allay plays starting with ropes and which was based on one thousand nine hundred and twenty four murder case, and just as he had in New York FRY, receive praise for his work and soon was making a name for himself as a character

They also appeared in a revival of a man's ban, all that positive, critical attention that he was getting onstage paid off when Dwight started getting his first film roles, he first played a gangster in the doorway to Hell in nineteen thirty, followed by larger role in role it man to man later that same year, as nineteen thirty came to an end, Dwight Fries life had two big events unfolding one. He and Laura were expecting a child and too he was cast as he was in universals Dracula, Dracula started, shooting on timber, twenty nine nineteen, thirty and just as with any other roads white really threw himself into it and the brain Stoker novel stage play and film were adapted from Redfield is described in the fictional journal of Doktor, sewer, in the following way, quote sanguine temperament, great physical strength, morbidly excitable periods of gloom ending in some fixed idea, which I cannot,

out and fries portrayal of Redfield is a roller coaster of madness from these really quiet and heartbreaking weeping moments to, wide eyed delirium, driven by being in the thrall of legacies, very seductive, vampire, fry in this part always reminds me of kind of a clinched jaw, and I have always described it that way, and then I was re watching it prepping for this, and I realized is because he has this posture where he leaned slightly forward from his upper body, and he is sort of like clinching his John pushing forward, but he does physicality in such a way that that's just how the whole rural feels to me Lara travelled back to spoken Washington to give birth, while Dwight State in Hollywood, for any recedes that would be required at the end of Dracula production. Their son, Dwight, David FRY, was born the day after Christmas December, twenty six nineteen, thirty Laura and the baby state and spoken for six weeks before her

back to LOS Angeles, so that Dwight could meet his new son who they nickname buddy. Yes, she had been in spoken because her family was there and because of shooting she knew Dwight would not necessarily be able to help her out a lot and weight on her ass. She might mean in her recovery. So that's why she was in spoken for so long and we are going to talk about the release of Dracula and the films that, for I worked on after it in just a moment. But first we're gonna pause for no sponsor break. I dont think America has ever gone back to the way that it was before nine eleven of anthrax attacks. The fear was really that there would be a second wave of attacks, and then along comes the DC steeper and all of the countries. Worst fears are realised. The gunman most likely a skilled marksmen fired six times in the courts and sixteen hours and then, as the DC sniper case, unfolded that terror boldly

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Show after show across the country, and it made Bailey legacy a star and for Dwight fry it got the attention of casting directors. He was cast in supporting roles after it in the black camel and the maltese Falcon immediately following Dracula is opening success. Then there was Frank and Stein. Initially there was something of a false start. Dwight was called in for a test by writer Director Robert Florry, but go see within the same test. Ass doktor Frankenstein's bolster fry was auditioning for the role of fritz. Who was a hunchback dwarf. You didn't it here in the original novel, but was added for the stage adaptation, and then he was included when that stage adaptation was adapted for film flurries test for Frankenstein is A controversy and film history florry

was claimed that the test went. Great stories have persisted that, in fact, it was a big problem. It was unintentionally comedic and Lugosi with super angry about the whole thing and felt that the role at least as it was written for that tests sequence was beneath him and said. The movie fell through for a variety of reasons. Dwight in the meantime had to mortgage his car to make ends meet, but then farmer, podcast, subject James Whale decided to take on Frankenstein. He reworked object cast Boris Karlov as the monster and started shooting in August of nineteen thirty one fry remained in the role of fritz stealing for Doktor Frankenstein's project and then later taunting the monster mercilessly ass. He had done previous roles. Dwight would not drop out of character once he was in make up, so he often frightened the casting crew just by sort of lurking around this, but this In contrast to Boris Karlov, who, if you look around online line

long. You will find pictures of this, but he took tea and he smoked and he played with animals and between two eggs all full monster make up and filming rapped on October. Third of nineteen thirty one on November. Twenty is the sum premier and through a series of soft openings before moving to the larger new york- and lay markets, and that was done because universal was actually concerned that it might be too frightening and they wanted to see how it played in small release. First, they didn't need to worry, though Frankenstein with an even bigger hit than Dracula had been. But at this point audiences he would, foreseen Dwight fry a year earlier had now seen him and to horror films both times playing mad men back to back. He might have been able to do it on stage for musical theatre to serious drama, but some moviegoers. He was only the sort of creepy madman henchmen type person yet came a bit him on the tale being as good as he was Dwight had mounting pressure as a provider at home, his father had died,

his mother moved to California to live with his family and the Hollywood Hills any did get work. He had a series of bit parts in medium success films, but he was already suffering from type casting in nineteen. Thirty three, the vampire bat he played a simpleton named Herman, who kept bats as pets and Herman is wrongfully scapegoated in the plot for a series of murders. It's a very charming. I've really love of the the vampire bat, and there is one of the best shot

takes in that movie ever by one of the actresses in the scene with Dwight fry, in my opinion, and it is apparent from his movie that already Hollywood saw this multi, talented and musically skilled actor, Dwight fry in just the one way he really missed getting to play different characters. So he started stage acting again. He started living something of a bicoastal life, traveling back and forth from LA to New York, touring plays and still working in film. Although his film roll continued to generally babies, creepy weirdo, characters and away. He was living two lives in the early nineties, thirties and He had a type cast movie career and then back on Broadway and in terms of the EAST coast, he continued to impress theatre goers with his range, but somehow he could never get these two worlds to intersect. Yet so strange cause, he was talent in so many ways, and it really come up doing comedy so too then only get the one type of

over and over and over in Hollywood, was really frustrating. But then he offered a role as a good guy. It was still in a horror movie that still fresh John row was all the rage at the time and it was called the crime of Doktor crests beam along with Aragon, straw Haim, although after the picture finished a kind of lingered for awhile without a release date until it was finally put out in nineteen thirty five and the main James Whale made, his second Frankenstein movie, which eventually became the bride of Frankenstein and he conjured apart for Dwight by cobbling together three smaller roles, Dwight had really loved working with James whales that he was really happy to do another har film with him as the character of Karl Regatta chanced to be comedic and scary, and they have a really fabulous deaths scene. Whales. Second, Frankenstein movie was a huge success. Yeah

interviews with Dwight FRY son. His son will often talk about how he really credits. James whale was sort of saving them at a time when they were really desperate, any really needed acting work, and then he got cast a course in Frankenstein so yeah. He really thought the world of James Whale Deutz. Options on Broadway started to dwindle, so he started spending. Time in Hollywood playing these bit parts and often wondering how actors who had stood in his shadow on the New York stage had more success careers when they moved out to California than he did. We talked in our James Whale episodes about the nineteen thirty seven film, the road back, which was heavily edited to avoid losing the german market because of its anti nazi message. Dwight fry had a bit part in this film and just as whales, film was cut down, so was Dwight career, but it wasn't because if his involvement This movie he had just never really caught on a screen actor that would be billed as a major player fry played and unsettling care

turn on the allay stage in nineteen. Thirty, eight in a play called night must form his former director from spoke in Washington. Adi would word directed him in the part of a man. Who carried a woman's head around in a box and that play ran at allays Mason Opera House in May of this year in the summer of ninety. Thirty eight, the Regina Movie Theater in LOS Angeles, was really struggling. The six hundred forty feet, venue wasn't selling tickets and, in a desperate me, the manager e mark Human, but a horror, triple bill of kind of assistance in the late summer. So, starting in August of that year, they started showing son of CALM Dracula and Frankenstein on one ticket, for some reason must be one of the most popular tickets, in LOS Angeles, with lines around the block in the theater running. The bill at all hours and still selling out and turning away customers. I have aside theory about why this was so successful in it Harkin's back to our air conditioning episode,

So if you could pay for one ticket and get like five hours of air conditioning, wouldn't you do it better with firm movies that had been really popular already, so there is a mean a little bit of nostalgia. It was only like eight years for some of them, but I think that might have contributed to why that was so successful, again August, in LOS Angeles, so at this event really reinvigorated the careers of Lugosi and Karlov and white for I was hoping for a similar lift. He actually took his son to one of the issues. Is any was a little bit disappointed that buddy enjoyed himself but was not the least bit scared. He was kind of hoping that Redfield would inspire just a little bit of terror and instead his son just thought it was amazing and fun. Dwight was cast ends

a Frankenstein which was founded in the hopes of cashing in on the new wave of interest in these older universal horror pictures. But by the time the film was edited, fries small part was completely removed from it. In nineteen, forty one Dracula was staged in LOS Angeles, at the board's theater and for this stage production for I reappraised his role of ran field. Yes, I continue to take bit parts and films and he actually appears in a short film called, don't talk which has made a nineteen forty two and was nominated for an Oscar that year, but that was like a small, bright light in a dimming career. He needed to make ends meet so he took a job at the Douglas aircraft. Fact, three and worked there as a tool designer that night. During the day. Continued to look for acting jobs, a really good acting opportunity came along when he was offered the role of Alexander Hamilton and the Broadway play the Patriots, but he turned it down here.

Willing to leave the family or leave his job Douglas during war time. It was a really difficult decision, though he adds described by his son S like a very heartbreaking decision for him to make and whites last horror picture was Frankenstein meets. The wolf man has made in nineteen forty three and that was followed the same year by two uncreated performances in hangman also die and dangerous blondes. His wife, Laura, picked up work as a store clerk to keep this family afloat. Finally, in late one thousand nine hundred and forty three there was a ray of light fry was cast in a Woodrow Wilson Biopic that was called Wilson. This was it 20th century fox. He had the smallest role of Wilson Secretary war, Newton De Baker, but Fox is putting a lot of money into this movie. It was going to be there big offering of nineteen. Forty four and it would be, fries burst color picture here. He was pretty excited that this was gonna, can a relaunch his career,

and I'm a night of November seventh, one thousand nine hundred and forty three do. I took his wife Laura and their son buddy to the Pantages theater to watch an RKO double bill of a lady takes a chance and Sherlock Holmes faces death sets in that Sherlock Holmes Picture were actually from films that fry had been in. There was a set in it from Dracula another from Frankenstein when the evenings, Attainment was over the family walks to a bus, stop at Hollywood and vine. They boarded the bus back home, but just after they got on white collapsed in the I'll, an ambulance was called. He was taken to Hollywood receiving hospital where he died shortly after arrival, he was ready for and who had been really hopeful that his acting career was once again about to get under way, but he had died of a heart attack. His death certificate was at his profession as tool designer and reference to this work. He was doing in the aircraft industry and wild Dwight. Ass was a surprise to virtually everyone. He had actually

for a while, but he had a heart condition. He had two minor heart attacks at work at the factory and he never told his family about them and he swore his co workers to secrecy because he believed that he would be healed through faith, so he never sought any medical attention he was buried at for Islam. Cemetery. England Dale sets a very sad end for Dwight fry because he was very young and I feel like he probably could have done a lot more interesting work like I said. I really enjoy him in a lot of he's, so I'm bummed that we don't have more of them. He it's kind of interesting. He had never in his life gotten fan mail and it wasn't until after he died that his family started receiving fan mail for his work, so he kind of recognized after he had passed, but not during his lifetime

Dwight fry in the area. That was a bummer Halloween story. Well, it's also one of those which it doesn't seem like it's going to be a bummer, and then it suddenly is right because it seems like a mean right at the end. There really seem like it was about to turn around sorry. You have similar said earlier maybe not a bummer. I do it's it's more of a thank you than a listener meal completely. There is male involved, but I'm not gonna. Read of all. It is in tiny script and I'm not confident that I will read it out correctly, but it is from our listener gin and gin Made a trip to the Milton Carnegie Museum and she very very kindly sent us a bunch of goodies, so we have

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