Athene Seyler

Athene Seyler

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Athene Seyler, CBE (31 May 1889 – 12 September 1990) was an English actress. Although better known as a stage actress - she first appeared on the stage in 1909 - she made her film debut in 1921, and became known for playing slightly dotty old ladies in many British films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Her most memorable stage credits included Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, and a double-act, with her good friend Dame Sybil Thorndike, as the murderous spinster sisters in Arsenic and Old Lace. Her film and television career lasted into the 1960s, and included roles in The Citadel (1938), Night of the Demon (1957), and The Avengers (1964, 1965). She was also a regular cast member in screen adaptations of Charles Dickens' novels. She virtually retired from acting after 1970, but continued making public appearances until well into the 1980s. In 1990, at the age of 101, she appeared at the National Theatre, talking about her long life and career. Athene Seyler was President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1950, and a member of the Theatrical Ladies' Guild. She also wrote The Craft of Comedy. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1959.

  • Title: Athene Seyler
  • Popularity: 3.652
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1889-05-31
  • Place of Birth: Hackney, London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Афина Сейлер, Афин Сейлер
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Athene Seyler Movies

  • 1958
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    6.8 1958 HD

    British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay....

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  • 1952
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    Secret People

    Secret People

    6 1952 HD

    This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent...

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  • 1957
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    Night of the Demon

    Night of the Demon

    7 1957 HD

    American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was...

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  • 1935
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    Scrooge

    Scrooge

    6.1 1935 HD

    Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of...

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  • 1954
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    For Better, for Worse

    For Better, for Worse

    5.6 1954 HD

    In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a...

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  • 1960
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    Make Mine Mink

    Make Mine Mink

    7.1 1960 HD

    In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series...

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  • 1933
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    Early to Bed

    Early to Bed

    1 1933 HD

    'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their...

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  • 1939
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    The Saint in London

    The Saint in London

    5.5 1939 HD

    Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds....

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  • 1938
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    The Citadel

    The Citadel

    6.3 1938 HD

    Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at...

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  • 1957
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    Campbell's Kingdom

    Campbell's Kingdom

    5.5 1957 HD

    Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In...

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  • 1949
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    The Queen of Spades

    The Queen of Spades

    6.5 1949 HD

    An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a...

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  • 1962
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    I Thank a Fool

    I Thank a Fool

    5.5 1962 HD

    After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has...

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  • 1961
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    Francis of Assisi

    Francis of Assisi

    7.6 1961 HD

    In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts...

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  • 1936
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    It's Love Again

    It's Love Again

    6.2 1936 HD

    Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So,...

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  • 1952
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    Made in Heaven

    Made in Heaven

    4 1952 HD

    Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.

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  • 1954
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    The Weak and the Wicked

    The Weak and the Wicked

    5.9 1954 HD

    Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts....

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  • 1962
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    Satan Never Sleeps

    Satan Never Sleeps

    5.1 1962 HD

    A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing...

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  • 1957
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    How to Murder a Rich Uncle

    How to Murder a Rich Uncle

    6.7 1957 HD

    A broke British nobleman targets his Canadian uncle, but other relatives get in the way.

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  • 1938
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    Jane Steps Out

    Jane Steps Out

    1 1938 HD

    Wallflower Jane Wilton has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful and popular sister Beatrice. Making things worse, Beatrice is spiteful and...

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  • 1935
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    Moscow Nights

    Moscow Nights

    5.2 1935 HD

    During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of...

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  • 1960
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    Visa to Canton

    Visa to Canton

    4.7 1960 HD

    A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.

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  • 1938
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    Sailing Along

    Sailing Along

    7 1938 HD

    A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.

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  • 1941
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    Quiet Wedding

    Quiet Wedding

    4.2 1941 HD

    A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

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  • 1951
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    Young Wives' Tale

    Young Wives' Tale

    4.8 1951 HD

    A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one...

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  • 1935
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    Drake of England

    Drake of England

    7 1935 HD

    Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's...

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  • 1934
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    Blossom Time

    Blossom Time

    4.8 1934 HD

    World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance...

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  • 1958
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    Happy Is the Bride

    Happy Is the Bride

    5.7 1958 HD

    In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone...

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  • 1958
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    The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

    The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

    6.7 1958 HD

    All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys...

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  • 1938
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    The Ware Case

    The Ware Case

    6.3 1938 HD

    An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

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  • 1937
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    The Mill on the Floss

    The Mill on the Floss

    4 1937 HD

    Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill...

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  • 1941
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    Letter from Home

    Letter from Home

    1 1941 HD

    Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. ...

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  • 1951
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    The Franchise Affair

    The Franchise Affair

    6.7 1951 HD

    An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.

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  • 1955
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    As Long as They're Happy

    As Long as They're Happy

    7.667 1955 HD

    The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and...

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  • 1948
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    The First Gentleman

    The First Gentleman

    6 1948 HD

    The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

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  • 1963
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    The Invasion

    The Invasion

    1 1963 HD

    Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by aliens.

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  • 1966
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    Don't Utter a Note

    Don't Utter a Note

    1 1966 HD

    Two well meaning spinsters' plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial...

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  • 1937
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    The Sky’s the Limit

    The Sky’s the Limit

    1 1937 HD

    Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.

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  • 1957
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    Doctor at Large

    Doctor at Large

    5.6 1957 HD

    Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk...

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  • 1953
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    The Beggar's Opera

    The Beggar's Opera

    4.9 1953 HD

    Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

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  • 1936
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    Sensation

    Sensation

    5 1936 HD

    Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him...

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  • 1960
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    A French Mistress

    A French Mistress

    5.7 1960 HD

    The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French...

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  • 1921
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    The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick

    The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick

    1 1921 HD

    A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.

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  • 1943
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    Dear Octopus

    Dear Octopus

    1 1943 HD

    Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of...

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  • 1931
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    The Perfect Lady

    The Perfect Lady

    1 1931 HD

    'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)

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  • 1932
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    Tell Me Tonight

    Tell Me Tonight

    1 1932 HD

    An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.

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  • 1952
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    Treasure Hunt

    Treasure Hunt

    5.4 1952 HD

    Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.

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  • 1956
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    Yield to the Night

    Yield to the Night

    6.9 1956 HD

    Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

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  • 1937
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    The Lilac Domino

    The Lilac Domino

    1 1937 HD

    In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her...

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  • 1934
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    The Private Life of Don Juan

    The Private Life of Don Juan

    6.2 1934 HD

    What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five...

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  • 1963
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    Nurse on Wheels

    Nurse on Wheels

    5.7 1963 HD

    Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes...

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  • 1962
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    The Girl on the Boat

    The Girl on the Boat

    5.6 1962 HD

    Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in...

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  • 1952
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    The Pickwick Papers

    The Pickwick Papers

    6.6 1952 HD

    The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

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  • 1937
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    Non-Stop New York

    Non-Stop New York

    6.3 1937 HD

    A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

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  • 1962
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    Two and Two Make Six

    Two and Two Make Six

    6 1962 HD

    An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into...

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  • 1939
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    Young Man's Fancy

    Young Man's Fancy

    5.8 1939 HD

    An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball

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  • 1947
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    6.4 1947 HD

    A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

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  • 1936
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    Southern Roses

    Southern Roses

    1 1936 HD

    A musical comedy of false identities.

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.7 1961 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

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  • 1959
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    The Third Man

    The Third Man

    6.4 1959 HD

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