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Love and laughter: A cinematic Valentine's Day bouquet
Magazine article from: USA TODAY ...screwball or romantic comedy, love invariably triumphs on the silver screen. AS VALENTINE'S DAY approaches, it is time...conduct of Carole Lombard's socialite Irene Bullock...asylum patients, Lombard's screen father (Eugene ...

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