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Gaby Basset (March 29, 1902 - October 7, 2001) in 1931’s Chacun sa chance
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Louise Brooks, Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl), 1929
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Swedish poster for 1926’s A Social Celebrity, starring Adolphe Menjou and Louise Brooks