Charlie Hall
Birthday: 1899-08-18
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charlie Hall (19 August 1899 – 7 December 1959) was an English film actor. He is best known as the "Little Nemesis" of Laurel and Hardy and appeared in nearly 50 films with them, so that Hall was the most frequent supporting actor of their films. Hall was born in Ward End, Birmingham, Warwickshire, and learned carpentry as a trade, but as a teenager, he became a member of the Fred Karno troupe of stage comedians. In his late teens, he visited his sister in New York and stayed there, finding employment as a stagehand. While working behind the scenes, he met the comic actor Bobby Dunn and they became friends; Dunn convinced Hall to take a stab again at acting, which he did. By the mid-1920s, Hall was working for Hal Roach. Stan Laurel, one of Roach's comedy stars, was also a graduate of the Karno troupe. As an actor, Hall worked with such comedians as Buster Keaton and Charley Chase, but is best remembered as a comic foil for Laurel and Hardy. He appeared in nearly 50 of their films, sometimes in bit parts, but often as a mean landlord or opponent in many of their memorable tit-for-tat sequences. Unlike the usual villains in Laurel and Hardy films, who were big and burly, Charlie Hall (billed as "Charley" Hall in the Roach comedies) was of short stature, standing 5 ft 5 in tall. His height and slight English accent allowed him to be convincingly cast as a college student, despite being 40 years old, in Laurel and Hardy's A Chump at Oxford. Hall almost never played starring roles; the exception was in 1941, when he was teamed with character comedian Frank Faylen by Monogram Pictures. Hall continued to play bits and supporting roles in short subjects and features through the 1940s and 1950s, occasionally on TV, appearing very briefly in Charlie Chaplin's final American film, Limelight (1952). In 1956 he played a small but important part in the TV show Cheyenne, season 1, episode 11, "Quicksand", starring Clint Walker, with Dennis Hopper, John Alderson, Wright King and Peggy Webber. His last role was in a Joe McDoakes short film starring George O'Hanlon, So You Want to Play the Piano, in 1956. Hall died in North Hollywood, California, on 7 December 1959. A J D Wetherspoon's public house in Erdington, is named The Charlie Hall as a tribute to him.
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Hold Your Temper
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Without Reservations
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Madame Sans Jane
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Unfriendly Enemies
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Forgotten Sweeties
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Sugar Daddies
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One of the Smiths
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Be Big!
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Double Whoopee
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Fluttering Hearts
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Leave 'Em Laughing
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The Live Ghost
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Them Thar Hills
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They Go Boom!
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Thundering Fleas
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Tit for Tat
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Dressed to Kill
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Limelight
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Morning Glory
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So You Want to Play the Piano
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San Antonio Rose
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Mighty Like a Moose
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Boxing Gloves
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Isn't Life Terrible?
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Nature in the Wrong
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The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
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Just a Pain in the Parlor
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Seeing the World
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Little Mother
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Illegal
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Top Hat
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Man From Headquarters
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The Lodger
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Hey! Hey! USA
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Bear Shooters
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Show Business
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Sealskins
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A Pair of Tights
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Sing Sister Sing
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Soup and Fish
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Came the Dawn
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Near Dublin
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Dollar Dizzy
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Maids a la Mode
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Opened by Mistake
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Smithy
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Postage Due
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Below Zero
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The Fighting Parson
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The Music Box
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Skirt Shy
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Call of the Cuckoo
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War Mamas
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The Soilers
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The Pajama Party
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Sneak Easily
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One Track Minds
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On the Loose
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Maid in Hollywood
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Babes in the Goods
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An All American Toothache
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Sweepstakes
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Busy Bodies
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Kentucky Kernels
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Men O' War
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Me and My Pal
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The Skulls
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The Chiselers
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Laughing Gravy
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Sons of the Desert
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Saps at Sea
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Playing at Politics
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Pack Up Your Troubles
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Our Relations
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Twice Two
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Shivering and Shaking
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Thicker Than Water
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The Hoose-Gow
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Scratch-As-Catch-Can
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Five Came Back
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Man About Town
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Bachelor Mother
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The Pip from Pittsburg
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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The Cowboy Sheik
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Sister Kenny
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Angora Love
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Babes in Toyland
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mort...
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Duck Soup
Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take re...
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The Night Life
Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and o...
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Love 'Em and Weep
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Should Married Men Go Home?
Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf co...
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That's My Wife
Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be h...
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The Battle of the Century
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange...
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With Love and Hisses
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant troub...
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Wrong Again
Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two ...
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You're Darn Tootin'
Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rat...
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Bonnie Scotland
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't qu...
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Vigil in the Night
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake....
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Mexican Spitfire
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita'...
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Eve's Love Letters
Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short....
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College
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affectio...
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Blotto
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting w...
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A Ten-Minute Egg
The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure t...
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Come Clean
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay...
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The Panic Is On
Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of ...
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Let's Go Native
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Bro...
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Top Sergeant Mulligan
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pa...
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Rough Necking
The Blondes and Redheads series, June's father forbids her to see her boyfriend, so she sneaks him i...
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians....
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The Kick-Off!
Gangsters kidnap the team's football coach in order to throw the game; Grady and Mickey try to win t...
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Too Many Women
College baseball player Mickey Daniels can't keep his mind on the game when he's got an eye for the ...
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A Chump at Oxford
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disast...
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Any Old Port!
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. T...
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Keg o' My Heart
Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Roger...
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Love Pains
Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him....
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Mama Loves Papa
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One Night in the Tropics
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'lov...
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Fifty Million Husbands
An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charle...
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts....
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An Apple in His Eye
Edgar tries his hand at making pies for Vivien's charity bazaar with predictable results....
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Primrose Path
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Millionaires in Prison
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton wa...
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Captain Swagger
Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills....
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The Druggist's Dilemma
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Diplomaniacs
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Cynara
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have hi...
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Snappy Sneezer
Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father....
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Shall We Dance
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical sta...
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Captain Fury
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band...
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Another Wild Idea
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Bromo and Juliet
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
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Curtain Call
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Father Steps Out
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
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The Undie-World
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Love on a Ladder
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A Quiet Fourth
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Million Dollar Legs
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A Trailer Tragedy
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Haunted at Midnight
Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case". When S...
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So's Your Uncle
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His Butler's Sister
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Honeymoon Lodge
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
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Radio Rampage
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Two Tars
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Hellzapoppin'
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King Kong
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In Society
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Do Me a Favor
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The Falcon Takes Over
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Dance of the Cookoos
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The Janitor
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The Big Street
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What Price Hollywood?
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Only Saps Work
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Men of the North
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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
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Hi, Beautiful
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Los cazadores de osos
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