State superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr solicited clients and organized branding for her private consulting business through her public school district email address, including several times during work hours, prior to her retirement as Brown Deer School District superintendent last year. She won the fifth Academy Award nomination and the third Golden Globe Award nomination in 1958 for the film Separate Tables. In 1978 she toured the US with the play The Last of Mrs. Cheney. Thanks for your help! Born: 22 February, 1930, in Altadena, California. Try again later. Deborah Jane Trimmer, mer knd som Deborah Kerr, fdd 30 september 1921 i Glasgow i Skottland, [1] [2] dd 16 oktober 2007 i Botesdale i Suffolk, var en brittisk skdespelare.Bland Kerrs filmer mrks Det brjade i Berlin (1943), Svart narcissus (1947), Kung Salomos skatt (1950), Quo Vadis (1951), Hrifrn till evigheten (1953), Kungen och jag (1956), Allt om krlek (1957), Vem vet, Mr . Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Kerr trained as a dancer in her aunt's drama school in Bristol, England. Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday in Suffolk in eastern England, her agent, Anne Hutton, said Thursday. Deborah Kerr had to wear the padded bras because that was the other fashion of the 50s. Kerr was reunited with Mitchum in The Sundowners (1960) shot in Australia, then The Grass Is Greener (1960), co-starring Cary Grant. She had a strong support role in Major Barbara (1941) directed by Gabriel Pascal. During the filming, according to Powell's autobiography, Powell and she became lovers: "I realised that Deborah was both the ideal and the flesh-and-blood woman whom I had been searching for". Today Deborah Kerr would be 100 years old. In 1975 she appeared on the Broadway stage in Edward Albees Seascape. Deborah came to Helensburgh twice during our two years in the town, the first time for five days. Try again. When Deborah was two, Arthur decided to retire from civil engineering at the age of 57 and go into business for himself. She made her TV screen debut for CBS with Witness for the Prosecution in 1982. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. A copy of her birth certificate confirmed that her birthplace was Glasgow. Kerr starred in two films with David Niven: Bonjour Tristesse (1958), directed by Otto Preminger, and Separate Tables (1958), directed by Delbert Mann; the latter movie was particularly well received. Kerr experienced a career resurgence on television in the early 1980s when she played the role of the nurse (played by Elsa Lanchester in the 1957 film of the same name) in Witness for the Prosecution, with Sir Ralph Richardson. Stewart Granger claimed in his autobiography that in 1945 she had approached him romantically in the back of his chauffeur-driven car at the time he was making Caesar and Cleopatra. The Kerr-Bartley marriage was troubled, owing to Bartley's jealousy of his wife's fame and financial success, and because her career often took her away from home. graphics - January 9, 2014. Accidentally she dropped the coin, which slid down between the seats of her carriage. Failed to delete memorial. Kerr's father had served in the British Army during the First World War and lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? As an unhappily married woman having a torrid affair with an army officer shortly before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Deborah Kerr is equally powerful in one of her best-remembered movies, From Here to Eternity (1953), stealing the romantic melodrama from her male co-stars. Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage (Legitimate theater) Vocation . "She has the rare gift", wrote critic Beverley Baxter, "of thinking her lines, not merely remembering them. she is one of famous film and television actress (1921-2007) with the age years old group. Doctors decided that his leg had to be amputated, and he was so ill that his mother and his fiance Col were sent for. The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't. Deborah Kerr Photo: 20th Century Fox She appeared in Gary Cooper's last film The Naked Edge (1961) and starred in The Innocents (1961) where she plays a governess tormented by apparitions. Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Her flutelike voice was also unique. In The King and I she whistled a happy tune, and the world whistled along. The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which Burt Lancaster and she romped illicitly and passionately amidst crashing waves on a Hawaiian beach. [18], Stewart Granger claimed in his autobiography that in 1945 she had approached him romantically in the back of his chauffeur-driven car at the time he was making Caesar and Cleopatra. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. The actress, whose screen kiss with Burt Lancaster is regularly voted the greatest of all time, was. It was very popular as was An Affair to Remember (1957) opposite Cary Grant. Verify and try again. She had two daughters from this marriage - Melanie and Francesca. [10], Kerr returned to the London stage in many productions including the old-fashioned, The Day After the Fair (Lyric, 1972), a Peter Ustinov comedy, Overheard (Haymarket, 1981) and a revival of Emlyn Williams's The Corn is Green. She returned to the cinema one more time in 1985's The Assam Garden. The film is as yet (2010) unreleased. Try again later. "It was impossible to stop because the camera was shooting on Mr Culver and I couldn't break the scene. Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow, the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (ne Smale) and Capt. In Hollywood, Kerr's British accent and manner led to a succession of roles portraying refined, reserved, and "proper" English ladies. Other TV roles included Ann and Debbie (1986) and Hold the Dream (1986), the latter a sequel to A Woman of Substance. Although she long resided in Klosters, Switzerland and Marbella, Spain, she moved back to Britain to be closer to her own children as her health began to deteriorate. She started taking ballet lessons from the age of five and enrolled at the St. She is tied with Thelma Ritter and Amy Adams as the actresses with the second most nominations without winning, surpassed only by Glenn Close, who has been nominated eight times without winning. Kerr, nevertheless, used any opportunity to discard her cool exterior. Her parents first met in Lydney early in 1914 and in due course became engaged, but were parted by the First World War. However Kerr then played Anna Leonowens in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I (1956); with Yul Brynner in the lead, it was a huge hit. ACTRESS Deborah Kerr, star of From Here To Eternity and The King And I, has died aged 86 in Suffolk. Mar 30, 2021. She is also one of the female myths of the seventh art. She was offered a five-year contract and her first role was in a spy drama Contraband in 1939 which was never screened. Kerr's first film role was in the British production Contraband (US: Blackout, 1940), aged 18 or 19, but her scenes were cut. He died, aged 78, in a road rage incident in 2004. Failed to remove flower. According to Powell, his affair with Kerr ended when she made it clear to him that she would accept an offer to go to Hollywood if one were made. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. In 1943 she acted on the London stage in George Bernard Shaws adaptation Heartbreak House. The Famous People. Deborah Kerr was born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland, on September 30, 1921. Filmed in CinemaScope, it was distributed by 20th Century Fox. Trimmer and Smale married, both aged 28, on 21 August 1919 in Smale's hometown of Lydney, Gloucestershire. [1][13] She played the repressed wife in The End of the Affair (1955), shot in England with Van Johnson. Trained as a ballet dancer, she began acting on stage as a teenager and performed in stage productions at the Open Air Theatre in London and the Cambridge Theatre. Best Known For. Whether it was as the nun struggling to repress her desire in Black Narcissus (1947), the married woman who relished an adulterous roll in the surf with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953), the teacher's wife who beds a student who may be homosexual in Tea and Sympathy (1956), or the kept woman drawn to kept man Cary Grant in An Affair to Remember (1957), Miss Kerr projected propriety and sexuality. Her second Academy Award nomination was for From Here to Eternity in 1953. [4] or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. Born on 16 October 2007 in United Kingdom, Deborah Kerr started her career as film and television actress (1921-2007) . Thereafter, Kerr's career choices would make her known in Hollywood for her versatility as an actress. Alternate titles: Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer. Deborah Jane Trimmer, better known by her stage name Deborah Kerr (30 September 1921-16 October 2007), was a British actress who appeared in movies, plays, and television. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). The organisation ranked it 20th in its list of the 100 most romantic films of all time.[17]. Andrew's family lived in the town in 1952-3 and he attended Hermitage School in East Argyle Street while his younger brother was at Clyde Street Primary School. It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. She joined Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in a love triangle for a romantic comedy, Marriage on the Rocks (1965). After changing careers, she soon found success as an actress. An Affair to Remember is a 1957 American romance film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Trained as a ballet dancer, she began acting on stage as a teenager and performed in stage productions at the Open Air Theatre in London and the Cambridge Theatre. GREAT NEWS! In 1994, Glenn Close presented Kerr with the Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement with a citation recognising her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance". Deborah Kerr, who lived at her grandparents' house at Elmsleigh Road in Weston as a child, first stepped onto the stage at the resort's Knightstone Pavilion in 1937. Helensburgh man David Bruce, chairman of the Glasgow Film Theatre and a former director of the Scottish Film Council, who was one of the awards organisers, said: I asked her if she would like me to arrange a trip to Helensburgh, and she said yes, but time did not permit.. Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer, a World War I veteran and pilot who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer. Yet, despite . Kerr departed from typecasting with a performance that brought out her sensuality, as "Karen Holmes", the embittered military wife in Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. She had the lead in a comedy Please Believe Me (1950). "[13] Although the British Army refused to co-operate with the producersand Winston Churchill thought the film would ruin wartime moraleColonel Blimp confounded critics when it proved to be an artistic and commercial success. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Appeared in her first film, the 1941 production of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara." This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Kerr returned to the London stage in many productions including the old-fashioned, The Day After the Fair (Lyric, 1972), a Peter Ustinov comedy, Overheard (Haymarket, 1981) and a revival of Emlyn Williams's The Corn is Green. She received six Academy Award nominations for best actress and was awarded an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 1993. So too was the spy comedy drama I See a Dark Stranger (1946), in which she gave a breezy, amusing performance that dominated the action and overshadowed her co-star Trevor Howard. She also made her Broadway debut in 1953 in a lead role in Tea and Sympathy. In 1959, Miss Kerr and Bartley, who had two daughters, divorced. Underly raised more than $1.14 million and spent $818,063 between Feb. 2 and March 22, according to her campaign report. Kerr's first marriage was to Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Anthony Bartley on 29 November 1945. The expectant mum was taken to a private nursing home at 7 St James Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow, where her first child, Deborah Jane Trimmer, was born at 7.40am on September 30 1921, and her father registered the birth in the city on October 21. Although at the time he was married to Elspeth March, he states that he and Kerr went on to have an affair. She is most remembered for From Here to Eternity. It was very popular as was An Affair to Remember (1957) opposite Cary Grant. Said critic James Agate of Love on the Dole, "is not within a mile of Wendy Hiller's in the theatre, but it is a charming piece of work by a very pretty and promising beginner, so pretty and so promising that there is the usual yapping about a new star". https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22285687/deborah-kerr. Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, daughter of a Scottish naval officer who served in World War I, was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1921. . Durdham Lodge was owned by Kerr's aunt Phyllis Smale, who ran it as a dance academy in the 1930s . However Kerr then played Anna Leonowens in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I (1956); with Yul Brynner in the lead, it was a huge hit. In 1964 she received a fourth BAFTA Award nomination for the film Chalk Garden. She had the lead in a comedy Please Believe Me (1950). In terms of lead actress nominations without a victory, Kerr now maintains the record. He said: My mother worked as a housekeeper for Mrs Jane Kirkwood Brown, who lived in a large mansion in Charlotte Street and who had returned with her husband from Ceylon where he worked in the tea industry. She received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring Spencer Tracy. She was 86 and had suffered from Parkinson's disease. Arthur Charles Kerr Trimmer, a World War I veteran and pilot who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme and later became a naval architect and civil engineer. In September 2021, Kerr's grandsons, Joe and Lex Shrapnel, unveiled a memorial plaque at the former family home in Weston-super-Mare. Though the alabaster-skinned redhead was honored that evening for her "impeccable grace and beauty," the secret of Miss Kerr's singular appeal was her devil-may-care peccability. She made music out of ordinary dialogue. Kerr had a younger brother, Edmund ("Teddy"), who became a journalist. Marni Nixon sang for Deborah Kerr in "The King and I," Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady," and Natalie Wood in "West Side Story." Drew Seeley did the singing for Zac Efron's character in the first "High School Musical" movie. Miss Kerr is survived by Viertel, her husband of 47 years; two daughters; and three grandchildren. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. Deborah Kerr CBE (born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer; 30 September 1921 - 16 October 2007) was a Scottish-born film, theater and television actress. She won her Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1948 for Edward, My Son. In 1964 she acted in Tennessee Williams The Night of The Iguana and also starred in The Chalk Garden. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). Sorry! excellence and international renown in their chosen professional fields, [15] She relocated to Hollywood and was under contract to MGM. She was another governess in The Chalk Garden (1964) and worked with John Huston again in The Night of the Iguana (1964). Her other major and best known films and performances are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Black Narcissus (1947), Quo Vadis (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Tea and Sympathy (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Grass Is Greener (1960), and The Night of the Iguana (1964). Who was Deborah Kerr's husband? But she was not Helensburgh-born. Kerr, 63, is the former superintendent of the Brown Deer school district in suburban Milwaukee. Both flopped, as did Beloved Infidel (1959) with Gregory Peck. Pressure of competition from younger, upcoming actresses made her agree to appear nude in John Frankenheimer's The Gypsy Moths (1969), the only nude scene in her career. In 1965, the producers of Carry On Screaming! Her ability to project the contradictory aspects of character helped her to create a new screen archetype, the very proper adulteress. Her parents, Captain Arthur Charles Trimmer and Kathleen Rose Trimmer, nee Smale, who were married at the brides home town of Lydney, Gloucestershire, on August 21 1919, were living in Helensburgh at the time. [26] At the time of Viertel's death, director Michael Scheingraber was filming the documentary Peter Viertel: Between the Lines, which includes reminiscences concerning Kerr and the Academy Awards.[27]. She and Walter Pidgeon were cast in If Winter Comes (1947). Her professional experience included working in education and as a superintendent. After divorcing Anthony she married a writer, Peter Viertel. She re-enacted the same role on the stage in 1956 and acted in the film version of Rodgers and Hammersteins film version of The King and I in the same year. She acted on London stage in The Corn Is Green in 1985. They were the genteel girl and the brassy babe vying for Clark Gable's attention. She played ladies who didn't mind if their tramp showed. A victim of Parkinsons disease, Deborah Kerr CBE died peacefully at Botesdale, Suffolk, on Tuesday October 16 2007, a couple of weeks after her 86th birthday. Actress. Director Fred Zinnemann at Columbia, in a risk-taking gesture, cast Kerr (on loan from MGM) against type in the role of a lusty, adulterous army wife in From Here to Eternity (1953), hoping that Kerrs ladylike poise would provide an interesting contrast to her characters seamy past. You see, Kerr had a very strict grandmother who concocted a somewhat cruel form of therapy for her. Deborah Kerr. Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress Motion Picture Musical or Comedy" for The King and I in 1957 and a Henrietta Award for "World Film Favorite Female". She appeared in Separate Tables in 1958. [10], Kerr's first stage appearance was at Weston-super-Mare in 1937, as "Harlequin" in the mime play Harlequin and Columbine. In 1994, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, Kerr received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognizing her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance". During her career, she won a Golden Globe for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the motion picture The King and I (1956) and the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the . Deborah Kerr was one of the most famous English actresses of her time. At the time of Viertel's death, director Michael Scheingraber was filming the documentary Peter Viertel: Between the Lines, which Scheingraber says will include reminiscences about events concerning Kerr and the American Academy Awards. From an early age, she staged dramatic presentations for her family. By Adam Bernstein, Washington Post | October 19, 2007. She played a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) opposite her long-time friend Robert Mitchum, directed by John Huston. She acted in the Oxford Repertory Company from 1939 to 1940. They had two daughters, Melanie Jane (born 27 December 1947) and Francesca Ann (born 20 December 1951), who married the actor John Shrapnel. Her husband, however, continued to live in Marbella. For many years she had battled Parkinson's disease with the dignified grace and quiet wit she brought to her many roles. She told a story about it in a letter sent in 1990 from her home in Marbella, Spain. "Finally the scene was over and I leapt to my feet and screamed I found I had been sitting on an ants nest! Her parents were Kathleen ne Small and Arthur Kerr-Trimmer. ", Audrey Hepburn - Film Legend, Fashion Icon, Humanitarian Great, Vivien Leigh - "Too British" to play Scarlett O'Hara. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. Her estimated net worth was $10 million. Pages in category "Deborah Kerr" This category contains only the following page. The film was a big hit in Britain. It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. According to agent Anne Hutton, Kerr died on . Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. [16] This was immediately followed by her appearance in the religious epic Quo Vadis (1951), shot at Cinecitt in Rome, in which she played the indomitable Lygia, a first-century Christian. She was the female lead in Penn of Pennsylvania (1941) which was little seen; however Hatter's Castle (1942), in which she starred with Robert Newton and James Mason, was very successful. Deborah Kerr was 24 but looked 18; Robert Donat was 40 but looked 50. Kerr made her British TV debut in "Three Roads to Rome" (1963). Thu 18 Oct 2007 19.06 EDT. In An Affair to Remember, an improbably effective romance that is the basis for Sleepless in Seattle, she convinced the world that the Empire State Building was the closest place New York had to heaven. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. Deborah Kerr movies: with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity. Learn more about merges. Omissions? Kerr was reunited with Mitchum in The Sundowners (1960) shot in Australia, then The Grass Is Greener (1960), co-starring Cary Grant. Black Narcissus became an international hit and led to an MGM contract and the opportunity to play opposite Clark Gable in The Hucksters later that year. She replaced Kim Novak in Eye of the Devil (1966) with Niven, and was reteamed with Niven in the comedy Casino Royale (1967), achieving the distinction of being, at 45, the oldest "Bond Girl" in any James Bond film, until Monica Bellucci, at the age of 50, in Spectre (2015). State superintendent candidate Jill Underly raised 16 times more than opponent Deborah Kerr in the latest period ahead of the April 6 election, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday. She received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son (1949), a drama set and filmed in England co-starring Spencer Tracy. British exhibitors voted her the eighth-most popular local star at the box-office in 1947. Family members linked to this person will appear here. Born in Glasgow in 1921, Deborah was a ballet dancer (appearing at Sadler's Wells no less) before switching to acting when she became too tall. Kerr trained as a dancer in her aunts drama school in Bristol, England. For many she will be remembered best for her kiss with Burt. HELENSBURGH people have long embraced Deborah Kerr as their very own film star, but the time she spent in the town was very short. She told a story about it in a letter sent in 1990 from her home in Marbella, Spain. , died Tuesday in Suffolk, England. On one occasion she gave my mother a 10 tip, and that was a lot of money in those days.. Casino Royal was a hit as was another movie she made with Niven, Prudence and the Pill (1968). This account has been disabled. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which Burt Lancaster and she romped illicitly and passionately amidst crashing waves on a Hawaiian beach. Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses while portraying an Army officer's unhappy wife in From Here to Eternity and danced with the Siamese monarch in The King and I has . "Deborah Kerr: An Actress in Search of an Author". For this performance, Kerr was nominated for an Emmy Award. Deborah Kerr (19212007) was a British actress who holds the record - six - for most Best Actress Oscar nominations without a win. Many Hollywood stars of the wartime generation ended their careers in cameo roles or cult movies, even schlock horror or, worst of all, television soaps. Her training there may account for her dancer's way of sailing through space. However in December 2011 a former burgh man, Andrew Rook (69), who lives in Bedfordshire, contacted the Trust to say that she had in fact come back twice. Deborah Jane Trimmer[1] CBE (30 September 1921 16 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (/kr/), was a British actress. Born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer in Helensburgh, Scotland. Deborah wrote: "We were sitting on top of a hill overlooking the Clyde, filming a scene. [12] Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". Kerr became known in Britain playing the lead role in the film of Love on the Dole (1941). Kerr had suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years. She returned to the cinema one more time in 1985's The Assam Garden. Also in 1953 Kerr made an acclaimed debut on Broadway in Tea and Sympathy with her sensitive portrayal of a schoolteachers wife who has an affair with a young student insecure about his sexuality. Deborah Kerr's full name is Deborah Jane Trimmer and her nickname is Deborah Kerr. Deborah Kerr died aged 86 on 16 October 2007 at Botesdale, a village in the county of Suffolk, England, from the effects of Parkinson's disease. offered her a fee comparable to that paid to the rest of the cast combined, but she turned it down in favour of appearing in an aborted stage version of Flowers for Algernon. Deborah Kerr holds a candle in a scene from the film 'Black Narcissus', 1947. Powell hoped to reunite Kerr and lead actor Roger Livesey in his next film, A Canterbury Tale (1944), but her agent had sold her contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. R88 That short hair 'gamine' look became popular in the 50s. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. She played a Norwegian resistance fighter in The Day Will Dawn (1942). She took on the role of the older Emma Harte, a tycoon, in the adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance (1984). On 30 September 2021, on what would have been Kerr's one hundredth birthday, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Philip Braat, unveiled a memorial plaque in Ruskin Terrace, on the site of the nursing home where Kerr was born. Kerr won a third New York Film Critics Award and a sixth Academy Award nomination in 1960 and a BAFTA Award nomination in 1961 for the film Sundowners. [20] When asked about this revelation, Kerr's response was, "What a gallant man he is! An Affair to Remember in 1957 opposite Cary Grant made her immensely popular. Alexander Korda cast her opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers (1945). 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