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The Moon Is Blue is a 1953 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie McNamara.[1]

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  1. 82 relations: Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Academy Film Archive, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Alcazar Theatre (1911), Arthur B. Krim, BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Barry Nelson, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Bosley Crowther, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Broadway theatre, Cameo appearance, Chicago Tribune, Comedy of manners, David Niven, Dawn Addams, Diana Lynn, Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach, Donald Cook (actor), Empire State Building, Entertainment Weekly, Ernest Laszlo, F. Hugh Herbert, Fortunio Bonanova, Francis Spellman, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Gregory Ratoff, Hardy Krüger, Harrison's Reports, Hays Code, Herschel Burke Gilbert, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Holmby Productions, Inc. v. Vaughn, Ingo Preminger, James Francis McIntyre, Jersey City, New Jersey, Johanna Matz, John McCarten, Kansas Supreme Court, Korean War, La Jolla, List of M*A*S*H characters, Los Angeles Times, M*A*S*H (film), M*A*S*H (TV series), Maggie McNamara, ... Expand index (32 more) »

  2. 1953 romantic comedy films
  3. Films directed by Otto Preminger
  4. Films scored by Herschel Burke Gilbert

Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Film Archive

The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.

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Alcazar Theatre (1911)

The Alcazar Theatre was a 1,145 seat theatre located at 260 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, California, between Mason and Powell, built in 1911 by architects Cunningham and Politeo for producer Fred Belasco, replacing the previous Alcazar Theatre one block to the east, which was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake fire.

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Arthur B. Krim

Arthur B. Krim (April 4, 1910 – September 21, 1994) was an American entertainment lawyer, the former finance chairman for the U.S. Democratic Party, an adviser to President Lyndon Johnson and the former chairman of Eagle-Lion Films (1946–1949), United Artists (1951–1978), and Orion Pictures (1978–1992).

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.

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BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

The British Academy Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles is a discontinued British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) until 1984.

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Barbara Bel Geddes

Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American stage and screen actress, artist, and children's author whose career spanned almost 5 decades.

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Barry Nelson

Barry Nelson (born Robert Haakon Nielsen; April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007) was an American actor, noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond.

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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA, formerly abbreviated as BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo, is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Comedy of manners

In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society.

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David Niven

James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist.

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Dawn Addams

Victoria Dawn Addams (21 September 1930 – 7 May 1985) was a British actress, particularly in Hollywood motion pictures of the 1950s and on British television in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Diana Lynn

Diana Marie Lynn (born Dolores Eartha Loehr, July 5, 1926 – December 18, 1971) was an American actress.

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Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach

Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (English translation: "The Virgin on the Roof") is a 1953 American comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The Moon Is Blue (film) and die Jungfrau auf dem Dach are 1950s multilingual films, American multilingual films, films directed by Otto Preminger and films scored by Herschel Burke Gilbert.

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Donald Cook (actor)

Donald Cook (September 26, 1901 – October 1, 1961) was an American stage and film actor who had a prolific career in pre-Code Hollywood films and on Broadway.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Ernest Laszlo

Ernest Laszlo, A.S.C. (born László Ernő; April 23, 1898 – January 6, 1984) was a Hungarian-American cinematographer for over 60 films, and was known for his frequent collaborations with directors Robert Aldrich and Stanley Kramer.

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F. Hugh Herbert

Frederick Hugh Herbert (May 29, 1897 – May 17, 1958) was a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, and infrequent film director.

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Fortunio Bonanova

Fortunio Bonanova, pseudonym of Josep Lluís Moll, (13 January 1895 – 2 April 1969) was a Spanish baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor.

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Francis Spellman

Francis Joseph Spellman (May 4, 1889 – December 2, 1967) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1939 until his death.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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Gregory Ratoff

Gregory Ratoff (born Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner; Григорий Васильевич Ратнер, tr.; April 20, c. 1893 – December 14, 1960) was a Russian-American film director, actor and producer.

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Hardy Krüger

Hardy Krüger (born Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger; 12 April 1928 – 19 January 2022) was a German actor and author who appeared in more than 60 films from 1944 onwards.

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Harrison's Reports

Harrison's Reports was a New York City–based motion picture trade journal published weekly from 1919 to 1962.

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Hays Code

The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.

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Herschel Burke Gilbert

Herschel Burke Gilbert (April 20, 1918 – June 8, 2003) was an American orchestrator, musical supervisor, and composer of film and television scores and theme songs, including The Rifleman (starring Chuck Connors), Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, and The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor.

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Hollywood Foreign Press Association

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was a nonprofit organization of journalists and photographers who reported on the American entertainment industry for predominantly foreign media markets.

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Holmby Productions, Inc. v. Vaughn

Holmby Productions, Inc.

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Ingo Preminger

Ingwald "Ingo" Preminger (25 February 1911 – 7 June 2006) was a film producer.

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James Francis McIntyre

James Francis Aloysius McIntyre (June 25, 1886 – July 16, 1979) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most populous, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

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Johanna Matz

Johanna Matz (born 5 October 1932, in Vienna) is an Austrian film actress.

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John McCarten

John McCarten (September 10, 1911, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 25, 1974, New York City) was an American writer who contributed about 1,000 pieces for The New Yorker, serving as the magazine's film critic from 1945 to 1960 and Broadway theatre critic from 1960 to 1967.

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Kansas Supreme Court

The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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La Jolla

La Jolla is a hilly, seaside neighborhood within the city of San Diego, occupying of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean.

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List of M*A*S*H characters

This is a list of characters from the M*A*S*H franchise created by Richard Hooker, covering the various fictional characters appearing in the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (1968) and its sequels M*A*S*H Goes to Maine (1971), M*A*S*H Goes to New Orleans (1974), M*A*S*H Goes to Paris (1974), M*A*S*H Goes to London (1975), M*A*S*H Goes to Vienna (1976), M*A*S*H Goes to San Francisco (1976), M*A*S*H Goes to Morocco (1976), M*A*S*H Goes to Miami (1976), M*A*S*H Goes to Las Vegas (1976), M*A*S*H Goes to Hollywood (1976), M*A*S*H Goes to Texas (1977), M*A*S*H Goes to Moscow (1977), M*A*S*H Goes to Montreal (1977), and M*A*S*H Mania (1977), the 1970 film adaptation of the novel, the television series M*A*S*H (1972–1983), AfterMASH (1983–1985), W*A*L*T*E*R (1984), and Trapper John, M.D.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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M*A*S*H (film)

M*A*S*H is a 1970 American black comedy war film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr., based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.

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M*A*S*H (TV series)

M*A*S*H (an acronym for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American war comedy drama television series that aired on CBS from September 17, 1972, to February 28, 1983.

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Maggie McNamara

Marguerite McNamara (June 18, 1928 – February 18, 1978) was an American stage, film, and television actress and model from the United States.

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Motion Picture Association

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is an American trade association representing the five major film studios of the United States, as well as the video streaming service Netflix.

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Multiple-language version

A multiple-language version film (often abbreviated to MLV) or foreign language version, is a film, especially from the early talkie era, produced in several different languages for international markets.

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National Legion of Decency

The National Legion of Decency, also known as the Catholic Legion of Decency, was a Catholic group founded in 1934 by Archbishop of Cincinnati, John T. McNicholas, as an organization dedicated to identifying objectionable content in motion pictures on behalf of Catholic audiences.

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Otto Ludwig (film editor)

Otto Ludwig (March 9, 1903, in Orchard, California – January 14, 1983, in Los Angeles County, California) was a film editor who worked on American and British films.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

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Richard L. Coe

Richard Livingston Coe (New York City, November 8, 1914 – Washington, D.C., November 12, 1995) was a theater and cinema critic for The Washington Post for more than forty years.

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Robert Benjamin

Robert Saul Benjamin (1909 – October 22, 1979) was a founding partner of the movie-litigation firm Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, a former co‐chairman of United Artists, and a founding member of Orion Pictures.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Scott Brady

Scott Brady (born Gerard Kenneth Tierney; September 13, 1924 – April 16, 1985) was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in Western films and as a ubiquitous television presence.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Sylvia Fine

Sylvia Fine Kaye (August 29, 1913October 28, 1991) was an American lyricist, composer, and producer.

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The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American independent drama film noir directed by Otto Preminger, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren. The Moon Is Blue (film) and the Man with the Golden Arm are films directed by Otto Preminger.

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The Monthly Film Bulletin

The Monthly Film Bulletin was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with Sight & Sound.

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The Moon Is Blue

The Moon Is Blue is a play by F. Hugh Herbert.

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The Moon Is Not Blue

"The Moon Is Not Blue" was the 248th episode of the M*A*S*H television series, and the eighth of season eleven.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tom Tully

Thomas Kane Tulley (August 21, 1908 – April 27, 1982) was an American actor.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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William Holden

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.

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Woods Theatre

The Woods Theatre was a movie palace at the corner of Randolph and Dearborn Streets in the Chicago Loop.

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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy

The Writers Guild Award for Best Written Comedy was an award presented from 1949 to 1984 by the Writers Guild of America, after which it was discontinued.

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11th Golden Globe Awards

The 11th Golden Globe Awards, were held in Santa Monica, California at the Club Del Mar honoring the best in film for 1953 films, on January 22, 1954.

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26th Academy Awards

The 26th Academy Awards were held on March 25, 1954, simultaneously at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood (hosted by Donald O'Connor), and the NBC Center Theatre in New York City (hosted by Fredric March).

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6th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 6th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1953.

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8th British Academy Film Awards

The 8th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1955, honored the best films of 1954.

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See also

1953 romantic comedy films

Films directed by Otto Preminger

Films scored by Herschel Burke Gilbert

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_Blue_(film)

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