
Birthday:
04-17-1918
Deathday:
07-04-1993 (75 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Anne Shirley (born Dawn Evelyeen Paris) was an American child, teen, and young adult screen actress. She retired at age 26. Initially appearing in films under the name Dawn O'Day, she changed her name to Anne Shirley (the name of the title character she portrayed) upon the success of the 1934 film Anne of Green Gables.
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Murder, My Sweet
Act like Ann Grayle
event1944 star_border 7.2
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After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
City Girl
Act like Marie Tustine
event1930 star_border 7.4
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A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
All That Money Can Buy
Act like Mary Stone
event1941 star_border 7
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Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
Three on a Match
Act like Vivian Revere as a Child
event1932 star_border 6.2
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Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Stella Dallas
Act like Laurel "Lollie" Dallas
event1937 star_border 6.9
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After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
Bombardier
Act like Burton Hughes
event1943 star_border 5.4
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A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.
Anne of Green Gables
Act like Anne Shirley
event1934 star_border 5.7
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Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.
Moonshine Valley
Act like Nancy (as Dawn O'Day)
event1922
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Ned Connors, a prospector, has a happy marriage with his wife, living in the hills, until fate brings a sick visitor to their shack. The guest, Dr. Martin, is cared for by Connors' wife, who falls in love with him. When Connors returns to the shack after striking it rich, he finds his wife and Martin together.
Government Girl
Act like May Harness Blake
event1943 star_border 5.2
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An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
Steamboat Round the Bend
Act like Fleety Belle
event1935 star_border 7.6
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A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
The Key
Act like Flower peddler
event1934 star_border 4.9
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A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
The Rustle of Silk
Act like Girl
event1923
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Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and married, while she is merely a working class maiden. But when she is given a maid's position in his household, it brings her that much closer to her idol. She puts on a fancy gown and heads to the Ritz in hopes of getting a formal introduction. After being fired from the household, she follows Fallaray to his country home and nurses him when he falls ill. Lord Fallaray's wife Lady Feo doesn't love him and is having an affair with Paul Chalfont. When it looks like he will be faced with scandal, Fallaray contemplates giving up politics and marrying Lola.
Liliom
Act like Louise
event1930 star_border 6.8
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A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Anne of Windy Poplars
Act like Anne
event1940 star_border 5.8
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Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels.
Make Way for a Lady
Act like June Drew
event1936 star_border 5
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An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.
Saturday's Children
Act like Bobby Halevy
event1940 star_border 6.4
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An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Vigil in the Night
Act like Lucy Lee
event1940 star_border 6
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A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
4 Devils
Act like Marion as a girl
event1928 star_border 7
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Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus. Lost film.
Law of the Underworld
Act like Annabelle Porter
event1938 star_border 5.5
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A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
Man from Frisco
Act like Diana Kennedy
event1944 star_border 6
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Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
A Man to Remember
Act like Jean Johnson
event1938 star_border 6.5
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On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Unexpected Uncle
Act like Kathleen Brown
event1941 star_border 6.5
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An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Condemned Women
Act like Millie Anson
event1938 star_border 6.3
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A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
Sorority House
Act like Alice Fisher
event1939 star_border 6.8
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A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
Young America
Act like Mabel Saunders
event1932 star_border 5
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Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.
Chatterbox
Act like Jenny Yates
event1936 star_border 6
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Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
Music in Manhattan
Act like Frankie Foster
event1944 star_border 4
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Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
The Mayor of 44th Street
Act like Jessey Lee
event1942 star_border 4
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In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns out that the ex-con is only interested in trying to use the agency as a front for extortion. Songs include the Oscar nominated "When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise," "Your Face Looks Familiar," "Heavenly, Isn't He?" "Let's Forget It," "You're Bad For Me," and "A Million Miles From Manhattan."
Girls' School
Act like Natalie Freeman
event1938 star_border 6
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Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
Mother Carey's Chickens
Act like Nancy Carey
event1938 star_border 5.2
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A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
Too Many Wives
Act like Betty Jackson
event1937 star_border 6.7
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An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Four Jacks and a Jill
Act like Karanina 'Nina' Novak, the Jill
event1942 star_border 6
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Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country. Steve shows up pretending to be the King of Aregal, and complicates the growing romance between Nina and Nifty. When Steve runs off with Opa, the real King of Aregal (also Steve) appears and complicates things again.
Chasing Yesterday
Act like Jeanne Alexandre
event1935 star_border 3.5
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An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict boarding school.
The Hidden Woman
Act like Girl
event1922
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Ann Wesley, a wealthy society girl is loved by Bart Andrews. Andrews reproaches Ann for her frivolity and believes she has a better self hidden within her.
Meet the Missus
Act like Louise Foster
event1937 star_border 4
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A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.
Boy Slaves
Act like Annie
event1939 star_border 6.8
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Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
M'Liss
Act like M'Liss Smith
event1936 star_border 5
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The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
Career
Act like Sylvia Bartholomew
event1939
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Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
The Powers Girl
Act like Ellen Evans
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Act like Mary Lou
event1933 star_border 6
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Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
The Purchase Price
Act like Sarah Tipton (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.6
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Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
Riders of the Purple Sage
Act like Fay Larkin (uncredited)
event1925 star_border 5.7
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A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
Finishing School
Act like Billie
event1934 star_border 6.2
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Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
Emma
Act like Isabelle as a Child (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.5
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After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
West Point Widow
Act like Nancy Hull
event1941 star_border 6
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In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Mother Knows Best
Act like Sally, as a child
event1928
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A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
The Spanish Dancer
Act like Don Balthazar Carlos (as Dawn O'Day)
event1923 star_border 4
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The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar de Bazán, if only the King of Spain would stay out of their way!
The Man Who Fights Alone
Act like Dorothy
event1924
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John Marble, a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of love between his wife Marion and his best friend, Bob Alten. Bent on suicide, however, the shock of seeing his wife and child endangered on a broken bridge shakes him to recover from his illness and discover that his suspicions were all imaginary.
Make Mine Laughs
Act like (archive footage)
event1949 star_border 5
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A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.
Gun Smoke
Act like Horton's Daughter
event1931 star_border 5.5
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Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
So Big!
Act like Young Selina Peake (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.8
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A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Rasputin and the Empress
Act like Princess Anastasia (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.3
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The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Act like Anne Shirley
event1935 star_border 6
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Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.
Lady Bodyguard
Act like A. C. Baker
event1943 star_border 4
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A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.
Rich Man's Folly
Act like Anne, as a child
event1931 star_border 4.5
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The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1988 star_border 8
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This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Movieland Magic
Act like (archive footage)
event1946
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Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely holds the WB house record for a 20-minute film containing footage from the most different titles in their inventory. It's theme of a singing guided tour of the lot (and some of the footage) is from 1944's "Musical Movieland", the former title holder, and it contains clips from 1939's "Quiet, Please" and "Royal Rodeo"; "Sunday Roundup" from 1936 and 1940's "The Singing Dude." Pieces from "Out Where the Stars Begin" and "Swingtime in the Movies" may also be used, but it's hard to tell since they all tend to run together and show up in a lot of places during the 1940's Warner shorts. Its title of "Movieland Magic" is most apt considering the sleight-of-hand performed by the WB Shorts and Sales departments in once again selling the same film clips for the 3rd, 4th or more times.
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
event1941 star_border 6
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Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
Bachelor Bait
Act like Miriam Johnson (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5.7
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After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Alice's Egg Plant
Act like Alice
event1925 star_border 4.7
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Julius, the boss of Alice's chicken farm, has to find a way to deliver 5000 eggs to Sinkem and Soakem when the hens go on strike.
His Wooden Wedding
event1925 star_border 6.4
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A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
School for Girls
Act like Catherine Fogarty (as Dawn O'Day)
event1934 star_border 6
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After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
Sins of the Fathers
Act like Mary, as a child (as Dawn O'Day)
event1928 star_border 6
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A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
The Callahans and the Murphys
Act like Mary Callahan (as Dawn O'Day)
event1927
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The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.
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