Birthday:
04-23-1893
Deathday:
07-20-1947 (54 years)
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Charles R. Moore (April 23, 1893, Chicago, Illinois - July 20, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an African-American actor who appeared in over 100 films in his acting career, and was sometimes credited as Charles Moore or Charlie Moore Moore played small parts such as servants, bootblacks, elevator operators, menial laborers, and, especially, railroad porters and Red Caps. Film buffs may remember him in Meet John Doe where he played the City Hall janitor trying to smoke a cigar while washing the floor on the Christmas Eve that John Doe has threatened to jump off the building. Moore was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in six of Sturges' films. In Sullivan's Travels, Moore had a memorable moment as the chef who is propelled headfirst through the roof of the land yacht during the chase scene. Moore was also a dancer, but that skill was not often called for in his film appearances.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Act like Bootblack (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
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Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
The Palm Beach Story
Act like Colored Porter
event1942 star_border 7
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A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
The Little Foxes
Act like Simon
event1941 star_border 7.5
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In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
The Ninety and Nine
Act like Sam Grant
event1922
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Melodramatic thriller, presented in 9.5mm format
Without Reservations
Act like Redcap (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.2
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Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Sullivan's Travels
Act like Colored Chef
event1941 star_border 7.4
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Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Carolina Moon
Act like Servant (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5
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A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men.
Exclusive Story
Act like Bootblack (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.5
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A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
The Prodigal
Act like Railroad Porter (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 3.3
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An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
Hit the Road
Act like Martin
event1941
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Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
Southward Ho!
Act like Skeeter
event1939 star_border 7
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Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
Calling Dr. Death
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
Beach Pajamas
event1931
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Beach Pajamas is a 1931 Comedy short
He Was Her Man
Act like Manhattan Turkish Bath Attendant
event1934 star_border 6.8
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A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
Doctor Rhythm
Act like Tooter, the Chauffeur
event1938 star_border 6
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Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
Dixie
Act like News Vendor
event1943 star_border 3
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A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
College Holiday
Act like Red-Cap Porter
event1936 star_border 5.2
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College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
36 Hours to Kill
Act like Red Cap
event1936 star_border 5.3
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Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
Spring Madness
Act like Excited Porter in Diner
event1938 star_border 3.9
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Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson.
Start Cheering
Act like Train Porter
event1938 star_border 7
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After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Only Angels Have Wings
Act like Charlie - Waiter
event1939 star_border 7.3
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A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Porter (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.9
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Professor Beware
Act like Bootblack
event1938 star_border 6.1
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Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Son of Dracula
Act like Matthew (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.9
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Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
Kentucky
Act like Stable Swipe
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Act like Sam - Carriage Driver
event1940 star_border 5.9
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Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
A Daughter of the Congo
event1930
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A US cavalry officer rescues a mulatto girl, raised in Africa, from slavers.
Adventure in Sahara
Act like Gungadin
event1938 star_border 5.5
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Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
God's Step Children
Act like School Superintent
event1938 star_border 5.2
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Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi consents to marry his friend, but is repulsed by his darker skin and unrefined ways.
Fast Workers
Act like Liar Fined in Court (Uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.3
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Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
Girl Missing
Act like Elevator Operator (Uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.1
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Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
This Gun for Hire
Act like Pullman Waiter (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.9
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Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Christmas in July
Act like Porter in Maxford's Office (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.9
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An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Tin Pan Alley
Act like Porter at Railroad Station (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5
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Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
The Great McGinty
Act like McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.9
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Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Two Girls on Broadway
Act like Porter at Bus Station (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
Second Chorus
Act like Sam - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.8
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Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Maryland
event1940 star_border 6.2
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A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Black Moon
event1934 star_border 5.2
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A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
Diamond Jim
Act like Cook
event1935 star_border 6
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A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
It's A Small World
Act like Doorman (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4.5
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Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
Desert Bandit
Act like T-Bone Jones
event1941
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Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.
Kansas Cyclone
Act like T-Bone (as Charles Moore)
event1941
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The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western. Barry plays Jim Randall, a lawman assigned to investigate a series of gold shipment robberies. Arriving in the middle of a hold-up, Randall finds himself accused of killing the driver (Yakima Canutt). Wells Fargo agent Cal Chambers (Milton Kibbee) vouches for his innocence, however, claiming him to be a noted geologist. Along with several of the prospectors, Jim devises a plan to prove that Jud Parker (Harry Worth) is using his dummy mine as a cover for stealing ore.
Jesse James at Bay
Act like Mose
event1941 star_border 5
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When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
Sunset Serenade
Act like Sam
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
Blonde Inspiration
Act like Elevator Operator (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.4
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A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Big Town Czar
Act like Ray
event1939
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When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
Million Dollar Legs
Act like Porter (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.6
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A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
The Exile
event1931 star_border 4.9
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An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.
The Accusing Finger
Act like Black Prisoner
event1936 star_border 4.7
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A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
True to Life
Act like Gabe the Butler (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6
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A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
I Married a Witch
Act like Rufus - Samuel's Servant (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.8
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A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Page Miss Glory
Act like The Porter (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.3
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A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Manhattan Melodrama
Act like Black Man in Speakeasy (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7
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The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
I'll Fix It
Act like Nifty
event1934
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A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
So You Won't Talk?
Act like Bootblack
event1940 star_border 5
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A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
Sleepers West
Act like Porter (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Suddenly It's Spring
Act like Charlie
event1947 star_border 4.3
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A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Killer at Large
Act like Highpockets (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
Comet Over Broadway
Act like Sam - Cleaning Man (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Strictly in the Groove
Act like Cactus (uncredited)
event1942
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College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
Queen of the Mob
Act like Cocktail Party Butler
event1940 star_border 4.5
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Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
His First Command
Act like Homer (as Charles Moore)
event1929 star_border 7
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A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Hail the Conquering Hero
Act like The Porter (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7
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Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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