Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan

Birthday: 1890-06-01

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Frank Morgan (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film The Wizard of Oz. His older brother Ralph Morgan was also an actor of stage and screen. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Morgan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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The Mortal Storm
The Mortal Storm

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...

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The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and ...

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The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling i...

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Dimples
Dimples

Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains...

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The Great Ziegfeld
The Great Ziegfeld

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-succ...

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Rosalie
Rosalie

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an Europ...

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The Stratton Story
The Stratton Story

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined t...

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Summer Holiday
Summer Holiday

Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neigh...

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Yolanda and the Thief
Yolanda and the Thief

Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, h...

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Thousands Cheer
Thousands Cheer

Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the ...

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Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as...

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Bombshell
Bombshell

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on....

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Sweethearts
Sweethearts

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning ...

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Courage of Lassie
Courage of Lassie

Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopte...

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Naughty Marietta
Naughty Marietta

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escape...

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Saratoga
Saratoga

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y....

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The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family ...

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The Good Fairy
The Good Fairy

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, d...

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Casanova Brown
Casanova Brown

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time. His first marriage, to Isabel, was annulled. But w...

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The White Cliffs of Dover
The White Cliffs of Dover

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan m...

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The Emperor's Candlesticks
The Emperor's Candlesticks

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia....

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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord....

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Boom Town
Boom Town

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov...

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Honky Tonk
Honky Tonk

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his...

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The Knife
The Knife

Kate Tarleton grows up on a Southern plantation and becomes engaged to her guardian, Dr. Robert Mann...

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Broadway to Hollywood
Broadway to Hollywood

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville...

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Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat

Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is...

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The Half-Naked Truth
The Half-Naked Truth

A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Br...

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The Cat and the Fiddle
The Cat and the Fiddle

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer....

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The Light in Darkness
The Light in Darkness

Bank cashier Ramsey Latham is sentenced to prison for violation of the banking laws. On his way to t...

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White Cargo
White Cargo

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival ...

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Any Number Can Play
Any Number Can Play

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend mo...

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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicid...

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Green Dolphin Street
Green Dolphin Street

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years l...

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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Sunday Night at the Trocadero

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robe...

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The Ghost Comes Home
The Ghost Comes Home

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voya...

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Key to the City
Key to the City

At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New...

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Born Rich
Born Rich

When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with ...

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Balalaika
Balalaika

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activiti...

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The Affairs of Cellini
The Affairs of Cellini

The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke....

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The Perfect Gentleman
The Perfect Gentleman

A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actr...

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Luxury Liner
Luxury Liner

This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious t...

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The Cockeyed Miracle
The Cockeyed Miracle

A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their fami...

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The Nuisance
The Nuisance

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving...

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Broadway Serenade
Broadway Serenade

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audi...

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The Great Sinner
The Great Sinner

A young man succumbs to gambling fever....

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The Great Morgan
The Great Morgan

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by...

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Piccadilly Jim
Piccadilly Jim

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at ...

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The Wild Man of Borneo
The Wild Man of Borneo

A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor....

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The Kiss Before the Mirror
The Kiss Before the Mirror

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who s...

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Port of Seven Seas
Port of Seven Seas

In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius....

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Secrets of the French Police
Secrets of the French Police

When a flower girl is kidnapped by a deranged White Russian, to impersonate the missing Princess Ana...

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Laughter
Laughter

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired ...

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Dangerous Nan McGrew
Dangerous Nan McGrew

Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in t...

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Escapade
Escapade

A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the tur...

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A Stranger in Town
A Stranger in Town

In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt t...

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Trouble for Two
Trouble for Two

A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London dis...

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Enchanted April
Enchanted April

Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to p...

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Reunion in Vienna
Reunion in Vienna

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now w...

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Dancing Pirate
Dancing Pirate

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jona...

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Henry Goes Arizona
Henry Goes Arizona

A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch....

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When Ladies Meet
When Ladies Meet

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor J...

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Queen High
Queen High

The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask ...

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There's Always Tomorrow
There's Always Tomorrow

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a for...

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I Live My Life
I Live My Life

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist....

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Hullabaloo
Hullabaloo

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic....

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A Lost Lady
A Lost Lady

A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man....

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By Your Leave
By Your Leave

A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes....

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Success at Any Price
Success at Any Price

A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market cra...

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Lady Luck
Lady Luck

A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way s...

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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Beg, Borrow or Steal

We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of...

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Paradise for Three
Paradise for Three

A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives....

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Fast and Loose
Fast and Loose

A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son...

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The Crowd Roars
The Crowd Roars

A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's...

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Washington Melodrama
Washington Melodrama

An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away....

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A Modern Cinderella
A Modern Cinderella

Joyce's mother keeps her younger daughter in the background so that Polly, the elder daughter, can m...

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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...

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The Vanishing Virginian
The Vanishing Virginian

The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does h...

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Manhandled
Manhandled

A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up ...

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Keeping Company
Keeping Company

Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents)...

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Scarlet Saint
Scarlet Saint

Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage t...

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Best of Enemies
Best of Enemies

Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan an...

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Lazybones
Lazybones

Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a ...

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That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment!

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...

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The Dark Side of the Rainbow
The Dark Side of the Rainbow

The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side o...

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Love's Greatest Mistake
Love's Greatest Mistake

On a train bound for New York, where she hopes to find work, Honey McNeil captures the appreciative ...

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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman

A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals pr...

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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Hollywood: Style Center of the World

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It ...

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Kismet
Kismet

Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to ...

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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a ha...

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Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...

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The Crowded Hour
The Crowded Hour

Telephone operator Peggy, puts on an act with Matt Wilde at a Bowery amateur night and is seen by Bi...

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Baby Mine
Baby Mine

Madge Kennedy plays a young bride whose husband walks out after a quarrel. Hoping to make him come c...

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The Billion Dollar Scandal
The Billion Dollar Scandal

An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved wi...

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Belle of the Night
Belle of the Night

A classic comedy short starring Penny Singleton and Frank Morgan....

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Who's Your Neighbor?
Who's Your Neighbor?

Reformers pass a law to force prostitutes out of the Red Light District....

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The Suspect
The Suspect

The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plo...

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The Girl Philippa
The Girl Philippa

About the year 1900 in a midnight raid on the palace of a Balkan king, emissaries of a great power s...

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The Golden Shower
The Golden Shower

A rich libertine leaves all his money to a college girl who had refused his advances. The ensuing sc...

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The Man Who Found Himself
The Man Who Found Himself

Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama...

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic

Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of c...

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The Daring of Diana
The Daring of Diana

To assuage his grief over the death of his wife during childbirth, newspaper publisher John Briscoe ...

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At the Mercy of Men
At the Mercy of Men

Vera Souroff, a young Russian girl, is kidnapped off the street and raped by one of three officers o...

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Oz
Oz

A behind-the-scenes look at the 1939 Wizard of Oz film adaptation that tested the limits of its crea...

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Sisters Under the Skin
Sisters Under the Skin

Directed by David Burton. With Elissa Landi, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Doris Lloyd....

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The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere will transport audiences, making them feel like they have stepped inside ...

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