James Karen

James Karen

Birthday: 1923-11-28

Place of Birth: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James Karen (November 28, 1923 - October 23, 2018) was an American character actor of Broadway, film and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Karen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome

While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells...

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Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigma...

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The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional ...

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Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster

When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her...

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Congo
Congo

Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa, wher...

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The Cowboy and the Movie Star
The Cowboy and the Movie Star

Depressed at the thought of losing his family ranch to settle his divorce, cowboy Clint Brannan deci...

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River Made to Drown In
River Made to Drown In

Thaddeus Mackenzie, a wealthy lawyer, learns that he is dying and decides to sell all of his propert...

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Wall Street
Wall Street

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on ...

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The Return of the Living Dead
The Return of the Living Dead

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the...

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Hercules in New York
Hercules in New York

Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestlin...

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Time Walker
Time Walker

From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the ...

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Cult People
Cult People

In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the makin...

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Vital Signs
Vital Signs

As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide w...

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Invaders from Mars
Invaders from Mars

A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants....

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Return of the Living Dead Part II
Return of the Living Dead Part II

A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin ...

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The Willies
The Willies

Two brothers camping with their cousin try to frighten each other by telling stories. They start wit...

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Apt Pupil
Apt Pupil

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumb...

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Rich Men, Single Women
Rich Men, Single Women

Three women plot to catch wealthy husbands by throwing a party at a mansion to which they have tempo...

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Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk

A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic de...

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The Day the Bubble Burst
The Day the Bubble Burst

A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and th...

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Hardbodies 2
Hardbodies 2

A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Before their work is done they ...

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Film
Film

A man attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye....

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Tough and Deadly
Tough and Deadly

A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of ...

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Trail of the Screaming Forehead
Trail of the Screaming Forehead

A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them ...

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Behind Enemy Lines
Behind Enemy Lines

An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was kill...

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Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace

A widow tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers th...

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The Heart of the Deal
The Heart of the Deal

Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman....

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Drew Peterson: Untouchable
Drew Peterson: Untouchable

The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious dis...

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More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead

Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic "The Return of the Living Dead...

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Girlfriend from Hell
Girlfriend from Hell

The inventor of the condom has become God's bounty hunter and is tasked with tracking down and captu...

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The Unborn
The Unborn

Joy turns to horror when a pregnant mother discovers the nightmarish truth behind her doctor's unexp...

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The Butterfly Room
The Butterfly Room

A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbin...

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One Last Flight
One Last Flight

Ray and his grandfather love airplanes and fly their model airplanes together in the park. But when ...

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Rivals
Rivals

A boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother becomes increasingly jealous of th...

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The Gathering
The Gathering

When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peac...

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The Companion
The Companion

In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote m...

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The Roommate
The Roommate

A young man, faced with eviction from his apartment, posts a “roommate wanted” notice on a college b...

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Nixon
Nixon

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...

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Take This Job and Shove It
Take This Job and Shove It

A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work....

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Once Upon a Family
Once Upon a Family

A father tries to make it as a single parent when his wife walks out on him and the children....

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Topper
Topper

A deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend while trying to get into heaven....

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Sam's Son
Sam's Son

Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a...

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The Closer
The Closer

The story follows a skilled negotiator, an expert at closing difficult deals, who becomes entangled ...

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The Violation of Sarah McDavid
The Violation of Sarah McDavid

Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventual...

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Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day

Light-hearted spoof about a dysfunctional upper-income family who have to come to terms with family ...

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Absolute Strangers
Absolute Strangers

A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hear...

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Staying Afloat
Staying Afloat

In this comedy thriller, a prospective series pilot, Larry Hagman plays a disinherited socialite and...

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Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love
Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love

Lewis and his nerdy friends attend Booger's wedding to the daughter of a rich politician, but nerd-h...

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So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM

A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the ...

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The Boy Who Loved Trolls
The Boy Who Loved Trolls

Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist....

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Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control ...

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F.D.R.: The Last Year
F.D.R.: The Last Year

Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth ...

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America's Most Haunted
America's Most Haunted

The crew of a popular ghost hunting show gets more than they bargained for when they come across a l...

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Superman Returns
Superman Returns

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those ...

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The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla orga...

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All the President's Men
All the President's Men

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate s...

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Lies Before Kisses
Lies Before Kisses

A wealthy publisher is accused of murdering a prostitute he had once spent the night with. The accus...

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Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?
Have You Ever Been Ashamed Of Your Parents?

Two teenage girls, one rich and one middle-class, become best friends over the summer....

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Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her tod...

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Green Briefs
Green Briefs

Five family drama, gay-themed, short films. This collection includes the following short films: Pri...

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Road Lawyers and Other Briefs
Road Lawyers and Other Briefs

A collection of short films put out on VHS by A.I.P., includes "Road Lawyers", "Escape from Heaven",...

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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the peop...

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Joyride
Joyride

A bored motel clerk and his buddies go for a little joy ride in a woman's car. They don't realize un...

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Shattered Dreams
Shattered Dreams

Charlotte marries John. Things seem ok; John has a good job and he's going up in the world, working ...

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Drive-In Madness!
Drive-In Madness!

A compilation of trailers and previews from classic low-budget sci-fi and horror films....

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Future Shock
Future Shock

A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients, unleashing ho...

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Freedom Strike
Freedom Strike

When a peace treaty between America and Syria is thwarted, the renegade head of the Syrian army reta...

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Poltergeist
Poltergeist

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'o...

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Nightman
Nightman

After lightning strikes saxophonist Johnny Domino, he finds he is telepathically tuned to the freque...

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Universal Horror
Universal Horror

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the...

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Girl
Girl

Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhoo...

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A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion

The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, tr...

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A House on a Hill
A House on a Hill

A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead ...

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Any Given Sunday
Any Given Sunday

A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replac...

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My Last Love
My Last Love

Love and life can never be planned. That's the message of the heartwarming love story of Susan Morto...

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Sympathy for Delicious
Sympathy for Delicious

A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing....

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A Kiss Goodnight
A Kiss Goodnight

Advertising exec Natalie engages in a passionate, but brief, love affair with a stranger named Kurt....

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Piranha
Piranha

Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstop...

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Jagged Edge
Jagged Edge

After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime sus...

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I Never Sang for My Father
I Never Sang for My Father

Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his g...

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The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...

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Something for Joey
Something for Joey

This is based on the true story about the relationship between Penn State football player John Cappe...

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Shadow of Doubt
Shadow of Doubt

An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman....

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Bonanza: Under Attack
Bonanza: Under Attack

After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outla...

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Bender
Bender

The unsettling true story of America's first serial-killing family. A troubled doctor searches for p...

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Cynthia
Cynthia

Cynthia is a horror film about the 'perfect' couple and their desperate obsession to have a child wh...

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They Won't Stay Dead: A Look at 'Return of the Living Dead Part II'
They Won't Stay Dead: A Look at 'Return of the Living Dead Part II'

Retrospective documentary about the making of "Return of the Living Dead Part II."...

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The Great Buster: A Celebration
The Great Buster: A Celebration

A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers ...

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Notfilm
Notfilm

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster...

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Fatal Kiss
Fatal Kiss

A wealthy businessman wanting to get rid of his unfaithful wife gets more than he bargained for when...

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Opening Night
Opening Night

Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her lat...

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The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent
The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."...

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The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy
The China Syndrome: Creating a Controversy

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."...

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F.I.S.T.
F.I.S.T.

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in...

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Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream

This is a "making of" documentary for the hit film "The Pursuit of Happyness". It chronicles a forei...

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Dark and Stormy Night
Dark and Stormy Night

In the 1930s the family of old Sinas Cavinder, gathered for the reading of his will, find themselves...

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Capricorn One
Capricorn One

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn...

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Frances
Frances

The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life t...

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Thirteen Days
Thirteen Days

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

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Little House: The Last Farewell
Little House: The Last Farewell

While Charles and Caroline are visiting Walnut Grove, the townspeople learn that a land development ...

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Up Close & Personal
Up Close & Personal

Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothin...

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Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk

A young Jehovah's Witness believes the ultimate punishment will be inflicted upon him for typical te...

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Pride
Pride

On the morning of his annual gay pride party, Stephen is forced to take in his homophobic father who...

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Kiss Me Goodbye
Kiss Me Goodbye

Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former...

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Managing Time
Managing Time

Peter Drucker teaches you how to be an effective executive....

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Institute for Revenge
Institute for Revenge

A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization ded...

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A Little Romance
A Little Romance

Anne Kidwell is a sexy, free spirit and independent clothing designer who works hard and plays harde...

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