Ramón Gay
Also Known As: Raymond Guy
Biography: Ramón Gay (1917–1960) was a Mexican film actor. He was one of the stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, known for his roles in The Aztec Mummy series of films in the late 1950s. He was killed in 1960, when he was shot dead during a dispute with another man over the actress Evangelina Elizondo.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: November 17, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 28, 1960
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El embajador
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-12
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The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
Overview: A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries old living mummy.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-07-17
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Attack of the Mayan Mummy
Overview: A scientist hypnotically regresses a woman to a previous life, a Mayan princess, who leads him to a secret tomb where the princess was buried - and the mummy of an ancient warrior, cursed to live after death and guard the treasure buried with her. Edited by Jerry Warren from the Mexican horror film LA MOMIA AZTECA, and following its general plot but with 36 minutes of new, American-made footage added and English narration in lieu of dubbed dialogue for the Mexican footage.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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My Wife and the Other
Overview: A classic story of a husband who meets a younger woman, and begins a love affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-10
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The Curse of the Aztec Mummy
Overview: The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy who guards Xochitl's tomb.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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Los enredos de una gallega
Overview: Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-11
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Pecado Mortal
Overview: Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-03-10
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The Witch
Overview: Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-17
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In the Palm of Your Hand
Overview: A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-06-21
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Cry of the Bewitched
Overview: A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
Genres: Horror Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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Hijas casaderas
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Weddings of fire
Overview: Gothic-y love story a la Wuthering Heights.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-04-24
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Tierra muerta
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-15
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The Aztec Mummy
Overview: A scientist discovers through hypnosis a mummy who watches over the jewels of an Aztec god for all eternity.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Mi mujer no es mía
Overview: Bachelor pretends that he got married, thinking that will stop his aunt from trying to play matchmaker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-18
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El diablo no es tan diablo
Overview: Gender-reversal comedy about husband and wife trading places.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Eugenia Grandet
Overview: A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-23
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Love in Four Parts
Overview: Anthology film, four episodes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-19
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El charro y la dama
Overview: Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-28
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Hell Road
Overview: When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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Angélica
Overview: An italian woman scapes from de WWII to Mexico where her uncle lives. She gets trapped in a brothel threatened to be involved in a crime that she was innocent. Meanwhile, she finds her true love who ignores where she lived and worked.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-06-12
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Heart of beast
Overview: Wanted criminal has plastic surgery, starts new life in a distant town. Old habits die hard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-21
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Loving Was His Sin
Overview: Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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La infame
Overview: For love, the rules of society and justice are broken, leading to abduction, exposing life and freedom, facing everything to make a sick child a normal child.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Bolero Inmortal
Overview: Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-11-20
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Ladies Club
Overview: Lonelyhearts advisor on a tv show becomes feminist icon and movement-leader.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-04-12
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Forgotten Faces
Overview: A woman looses her baby girl in a train accident but, years later, the girl's father reveals that the baby survived and was raised by him with two other daughters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-18
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The Ghost falls in Love
Overview: A romance between a woman and a ghost.
Genres: Comedy Romance Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-26
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La estrella vacía
Overview: Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-05
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La noche es nuestra
Overview: Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-27
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Lola Casanova
Overview: Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-25
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La negra Angustias
Overview: When her father dies, a young Afro-Mexican woman joins the Revolution, the way he was planning to do, and becomes the leader of a Zapatista battalion.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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The Absentee
Overview: After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-05-07
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Mujeres sin mañana
Overview: Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-05
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The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
Overview: There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-13
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La venenosa
Overview: A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-04
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The Curse of the Doll People
Overview: Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-04-13
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Face of the Screaming Werewolf
Overview: Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night. This film is composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror movies, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new footage shot in the U.S. by Jerry Warren.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Estafa de amor
Overview: Bad woman plays three men off each other while enjoying the attentions of all three; a great many lives are disrupted as a result of her wickedness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-06-29
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The Devil Is a Woman
Overview: A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-28
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Camelia
Overview: A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-16
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By the False Door
Overview: Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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What a Beautiful Legs!
Overview: A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan. Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-24
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La noche y tú
Overview: Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-06-26
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La esquina de mi barrio
Overview: Two young sweethearts get tangled up with a bad guy and a stolen necklace.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-11-28
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Entre abogados te veas
Overview: Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-02
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El seductor
Overview: A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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Después de la tormenta
Overview: This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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Dios nos manda vivir
Overview: Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink melodrama: young widow suffers everything life can throw at her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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Las tres Elenas
Overview: A woman married to a renowned doctor confesses to her mother that she has fallen in love with her daughter's young boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-04-15
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Cinnamon Skin
Overview: Marucha (Sarita Montiel) has had a shattered face since childhood, but she has a beautiful figure and covers half of her face with her hair. She is a singer and performs in neighborhood theaters. Marucha and Ramon are professionals in crime.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-08-05
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Stolen Heaven
Overview: A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-04
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Ley fuga
Overview: As he rises through the ranks of the police department, a young officer gets more deeply involved in manipulating gang activity for personal gain.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-08-19
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Nadie muere dos veces
Overview: Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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Paco, el elegante
Overview: Paco's ordered by a higher-up in his gang to beat up a journalist who wants to write exposes about Mexico City drug traffic, and that ends up opening a whole can of worms.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-01-03
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Recién casados... no molestar
Overview: Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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Sublime melodía
Overview: Young widow with kindergarten-age daughter butts heads with her mother-in-law.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Un corazón en el ruedo
Overview: Famous bullfighter rises from humble beginnings, finds himself enmeshed in an emotionally-draining romantic triangle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-05
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Venganza en el circo
Overview: Criss-crossing love affairs and jealousies result in a murder attempt.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-02-17
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Lodo y armiño
Overview: Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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El vestido de novia
Overview: A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-18
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Socios para la aventura
Overview: Young nightclub performer, down on her luck, falls in with a portrait-cartoonist who works the streets and a terminally-ill singer-songwriter and goes to live on their houseboat. They consider doing a crime.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-08-21
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Love and Sin
Overview: A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-10-03
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Morir para vivir
Overview: A voodoo warlock turns a girl into a zombie, by the orders of her stepmother, so she can continue her affair with the girl's boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-12-23
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La venenosa
Overview: A snake charmer's assistant (who later becomes a trapeze artist) brings bad luck in the circus to those who fall in love with her. Her decision to become a trapeze artist comes after the accident that the main character has during a presentation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-10-30
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Hipócrita..!
Overview: A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-11
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Lágrimas robadas
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Overview: Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Crimen en la alcoba
Overview: A man's on trial for murder; a friend who could prove his innocence chooses not to come forward. An interested detective starts working to discover the how-come of all of that.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-10-16
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Felipe de Jesús
Overview: Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-08-05
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Si me viera don Porfirio
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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