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Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie." The film, renamed
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to work on further films, but with his marriage breaking up he demurred, preferring to remain in New York to be close to his daughter. He continued a savvy business career—for example he invested in the doctor who discovered
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When the shooting stops... the cutting begins: a film editor's story
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