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2 comments:
Have you seen the scene in The Major and the Minor when Ginger Rogers encounters a ballroom full of junior misses...all of them sporting Veronica Lake 'dos? It's a stitch!
Warmly, Kay
http://moviestarmakeover.blogspot.com/
What a great scene indeed. Thanks for reminding us about it!
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