Clara Blandick
{{short description|American actress (1876-1962)}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox person
| image = Clara Blandick.jpg
| caption = Blandick, {{circa|1903}}
| birth_name = Clara Blanchard Dickey
| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|06|04}}
| birth_place = British Hong Kong
| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|04|15|1876|06|04}}
| death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.
| resting_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1901–1950
| spouse = {{marriage|Harry Stanton Elliott|1905|1912|end=divorced}}
}}
Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey; June 4, 1876 – April 15, 1962) was an American character, film, stage and theater actress who portrayed Aunt Em in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939). As a character actress, she often played eccentric elderly matriarchs.
Early life
She was born on June 4, 1876, in Clara Blanchard Dickey,{{cite book |last1=Fisher |first1=James |last2=Londré |first2=Felicia Hardison |title=Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism |date=2017 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781538107867 |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pro7DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Clara+Blanchard+Dickey%22&pg=PA89 |access-date=2 June 2018 |language=en}} the daughter of Isaac B. Dickey and Harriet "Hattie" Dickey (née Mudgett), aboard the Willard Mudgett – an American ship captained by her father (named after one of her maternal relatives), and docked in Victoria Harbour, British Hong Kong.[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/household_record.asp?HOUSEHOLD_CODE=1880US_4741275&HOUSEHOLD_SUB=1&frompage=5 1880 United States Census Household Record: Isaac B. Dickey family at familysearch.org] She was delivered by Captain William H. Blanchard, whose ship, Wealthy Pendleton, was anchored nearby. His wife, Clara Pendleton Blanchard, was also present. To thank the Blanchards, Captain and Mrs. Dickey named their daughter Clara Blanchard Dickey. When she became successful as an actress, she took the first syllable of "Blanchard" and the first syllable of "Dickey" to create her stage name, "Clara Blandick". While she often used 1880 as her year of birth for professional purposes, she was actually born in 1876. According to the newspaper Daily Alta California, both the Willard Mudgett and the Wealthy Pendleton were in Hong Kong Harbor in June 1876. By 1880, Captain Dickey was in command of a different ship (the William Hales), and the rest of the family was in Quincy, Massachusetts.{{Citation needed |date=August 2023}}
Her parents had settled in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1879 or 1880. Sources vary on when the Dickeys settled there, and Clara may have been two or three years old when they made the move. In nearby Boston she met the Shakespearean actor E. H. Sothern, with whom she appeared in a production of Richard Lovelace. She moved from Boston to New York City by 1900, and began pursuing acting as a career.
Acting
In 1897, Blandick was an understudy with The Walking Delegate company in Boston{{cite news |title=Amusement Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86999873/the-boston-globe/ |access-date=October 13, 2021 |work=The Boston Globe |date=September 2, 1897 |page=9|via = Newspapers.com}} and her stage debut came in that production at the Tremont Theatre.{{cite book |last1=Briscoe |first1=Johnson |title=The Actors' Birthday Book: 2d Series. An Authoritative Insight Into the Lives of the Men and Women of the Stage Born Between January First and December Thirty-first |date=1908 |publisher=Moffat, Yard |page=134 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OVEcM0pMesC&dq=%22Clara+Blandick%22&pg=PA134 |access-date=October 13, 2021 |language=en}} In 1901, she portrayed Jehanneton in the play If I Were King,{{cite book |last1=Nissen |first1=Axel |title=Mothers, Mammies and Old Maids: Twenty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood |date=2012 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786490455 |pages=5–11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXqFB-YFYpYC&q=%22Clara+Blandick%22&pg=PA5 |access-date=2 June 2018 |language=en}} which ran for 56 performances at Garden Theatre (an early component of Madison Square Garden). She achieved acclaim for her role in The Christian.{{Citation needed |date=August 2023}}
In 1903, she played Gwendolyn in the Broadway premiere of E. W. Hornung's Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman opposite Kyrle Bellew. She started in pictures with the Kalem company in 1908 and made a number of appearances such as in The Maid's Double in 1911. Blandick finally broke onto Broadway in 1912, when she was cast as Dolores Pennington in Widow By Proxy which ran for 88 performances through early 1913 at George M. Cohan's Theatre on Broadway. During this same period she appeared on stages throughout the Northeastern United States as a member of Sylvester Poli's stock theater company, The Poli Players. She continued to achieve acclaim for her stage work, playing a number of starring roles, including the lead in Madame Butterfly. By 1914, she was back on the silver screen, as Emily Mason in the film Mrs. Black is Back.
During World War I, Blandick performed some overseas volunteer work for the American Expeditionary Force in France. She also continued to act on stage and occasionally in silent pictures. In 1924, she earned rave reviews for her supporting role in the Pulitzer Prize winning play Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, which ran for 122 performances at the Klaw Theatre in New York (later renamed CBS Radio Playhouse No. 2).
In 1929, Blandick moved to Hollywood. By the 1930s, she was well known in theatrical and film circles as an established supporting actress. Though she landed roles like Aunt Polly in the 1930 film Tom Sawyer (a role she reprised in the 1931 film Huckleberry Finn), she spent much of the decade as a character actor, often going uncredited. In Pre-Code films she often played mothers, including those of characters played by Joan Crawford (Possessed) and Joan Blondell (Three on a Match). At a time when many actors were permanently attached to a single studio, she played a wide number of bit parts for almost every major Hollywood studio (though she would later be under contract with 20th Century Fox). In 1930, she acted in nine films. In 1931, she was in thirteen films. As is the case with some other busy character actors, it is difficult to make an exact tally of the films in which Blandick appeared, but a reasonable estimate would fall between 150 and 200.
''The Wizard of Oz'' and later years
In 1939, Blandick landed her most memorable minor role – Aunt Em in MGM's classic The Wizard of Oz. Though it was a small part (Blandick filmed all her scenes in a single week), the character was an important symbol of protagonist Dorothy's quest to return home to her beloved aunt and uncle. (Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are the only characters from the beginning of the movie, in black-and-white Kansas, not to have alter ego characters in the Land of Oz.) Blandick beat May Robson, Janet Beecher, and Sarah Padden for the role, and earned $750 per week. Some believed Aunt Em's alter ego was to be Glinda, the Good Witch of the North but the studio opted to use different actresses for each role. The reason was they wanted someone younger looking to contrast the good witch from the bad witches, although Billie Burke, who played Glinda, was only eight years younger. Blandick is only credited in the movie's closing credits.
After The Wizard of Oz, Blandick returned to her staple of character acting in supporting and bit roles. She would continue to act in a wide variety of roles in dozens of films. She played Mrs. Morton Pringle in 1940's Anne of Windy Poplars, a department store customer in the 1941 Marx Brothers film The Big Store, a fashionable socialite in the 1944 musical Can't Help Singing, and a cold-blooded murderer in the 1947 mystery Philo Vance Returns. Her final two roles both came in 1950 – playing a housekeeper and a landlady in Key to the City and Love That Brute, respectively. She retired from acting at the age of 74 and went into seclusion at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Personal life and death
Blandick was married on December 7, 1905, in Manhattan, to mining engineer Harry Stanton Elliott.{{Citation|title=Manhattan marriage certificate #26838}} Prior to his mining career, he had been an actor, and they had starred together in The Christian. They separated by 1910, and are believed to have divorced in 1912. They had no children.
Throughout the 1950s, Blandick's health steadily began to deteriorate. Her eyesight began to fail and she was suffering from severe, painful arthritis. On April 15, 1962, aged 85, she returned to her Hollywood home from Palm Sunday services at her church. She began rearranging her room, placing her favorite photos and memorabilia in prominent places. She laid out her resume and a collection of press clippings from her lengthy career. She dressed immaculately in an elegant royal blue dressing gown, and with her hair properly styled, she took an overdose of sleeping pills. She lay down on a couch, covered herself with a gold blanket over her shoulders, and tied a plastic bag over her head. She left the following note: "I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen."{{cite book |last1=Nissen |first1=Axel |title=Mothers, Mammies and Old Maids: Twenty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood |date=2012 |publisher=McFarland & Co. |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=9780786461370 |oclc=761369278 |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXqFB-YFYpYC&q=%E2%80%9CI+am+now+about+to+make+the+great+adventure.+I+cannot+endure+this+agonizing+pain+any+longer.+It+is+all+over+my+body.+Neither+can+I+face+the+impending+blindness.+I+pray+the+Lord+my+soul+to+take.+Amen.%E2%80%9D&pg=PA8}}
Blandick's landlady, Helen Mason, discovered her body later that day.{{cite news |title=Miss Blandick dies; film actress was 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/04/16/archives/miss-blandick-dies-film-actress-was-81.html |access-date=October 13, 2021 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=April 16, 1962 |page=23}} Her ashes were interred at the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Security at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale along with those of her sister, Marcia D. Young, and Marcia's husband, George A. Young. Blandick's ashes lie just yards from those of Charley Grapewin, her on-screen husband in The Wizard of Oz.{{Citation needed |date=October 2021}}
Stage credits
Note: The list below is limited to New York/Broadway theatrical productions.
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Broadway credits of Clara Blandick ! scope="col"|Date ! scope="col"|Title ! scope="col"|Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" |{{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}} |
| scope="row"|Oct 14, 1901 - Dec 1901
|If I Were King |Jehanneton |
|---|
| scope="row"|Oct 27, 1903 - Mar 1904
|Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman |Gwendolyn Conron |
| scope="row"|Dec 21, 1903 - Jan 1904
|The Sacrament of Judas |Jeffick Gillou |
| scope="row"|Mar 28, 1904 - May 1904
|The Two Orphans |Marianne |align="center"|{{cite web |title=The Two Orphans |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-two-orphans-5861#People |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|Apr 06, 1908 - May 1908
|The Royal Mounted |Rosa Larabee |
| scope="row"|Feb 24, 1913 - May 1913
|Widow by Proxy |Dolores Pennington |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Widow by Proxy |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/widow-by-proxy-7602 |website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|Apr 21, 1913 - May 1913
|Mrs. Peckham's Carouse | |
| scope="row"|Aug 23, 1915 - Oct 1915
|No. 13 Washington Square | |
| scope="row"|Feb 01, 1917 - May 1917
|The Wanderer | |
| scope="row"|Mar 31, 1923 - May 1923
|Mrs. Minnett, First Witch |
| scope="row"|Jan 04, 1924 - Apr 1924
|Meg Hunt |align="center"| {{cite web |title=Hell-bent Fer Heaven |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/hell-bent-fer-heaven-9453|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|Sep 28, 1925 - Dec 12, 1925
|Applesauce |Mrs. Jennie Baldwin |align="center"| {{cite web |title=Applesauce |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/applesauce-9913|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|Oct 05, 1926 - Oct 1926
|The Good Fellow |Mrs. Kent |align="center"| {{cite web |title=The Good Fellow |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-good-fellow-10139|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|Apr 01, 1927 - Apr 1927
|Fog-Bound |Mrs. Penny |align="center"| {{cite web |title=Fog-Bound |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/fog-bound-10269|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|May 11, 1927 - Jun 1927
|Kempy |"Ma" Bence |align="center"| {{cite web |title=Kempy |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/kempy-10321|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|Nov 01, 1927 - Nov 1927
|Ink |Hester Trevelyan |align="center"| {{cite web |title=Ink |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/ink-10477|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|Feb 01, 1928 - Feb 1928
|La Gringa |Sarah Bowditch |align="center"| {{cite web |title=La Gringa|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/la-gringa-10569#OpeningNightCast|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|Mar 14, 1928 - Mar 1928
|The Buzzard |Mrs. Burns |align="center"| {{cite web |title=The Buzzard|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-buzzard-10607|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|May 21, 1928 - Jul 1929
|Skidding |Mrs. Hardy |align="center"| {{cite web |title=Skidding|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/skidding-9802|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|Jan 11, 1929 - Jan 1929
|Skyrocket |Mrs. Ewing |align="center"| {{cite web |title=Skyrocket|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/skyrocket-10827|website=IBDB |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ Film credits of Clara Blandick ! scope="col"|Year ! scope="col"|Title ! scope="col"|Role ! scope="col"|Studio/Distributor ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}} |
| scope="row"|1911
| |Short |align="center"| |
|---|
| scope="row"|1914
|Emily Mason |
| scope="row"|1916
|Mrs. Rowley |
| scope="row"|1917
|Mrs. Donnelly |Rolfe Photoplays |
| scope="row"|1929
|Ma |MGM |
| scope="row"|1929
|Masquerade Guest - Little Bo Peep (uncredited) | |
| scope="row"|1930
|Abigail Armstrong |MGM |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Romance |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/11755-ROMANCE?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1930
|Mrs. Ward |MGM |
| scope="row"|1930
|Aunt Polly |
| scope="row"|1930
|Martha Wagenkampf |MGM |
| scope="row"|1930
|Ma Fisher |Paramount Famous Players Film Company |
| scope="row"|1930
|Mrs. Minnie Winkle (uncredited) |Paramount |
| scope="row"|1931
|Frau Hoffman |MGM |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Daybreak|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/7309-DAYBREAK?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1931
|New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford |Mrs. Layton |MGM |
| scope="row"|1931
|Mrs. Mason |
| scope="row"|1931
|Marian's Mother |MGM |
| scope="row"|1931
|Mrs. Sprigg |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Bought|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/6010-BOUGHT?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1931
|Mrs. Stanton |MGM |
| scope="row"|1931
|Agnes |MGM |
| scope="row"|1931
|Aunt Polly |Paramount |
| scope="row"|1931
|Sue Barnes |Paramount Publix Corp. |
| scope="row"|1931
|Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy |
| scope="row"|1931
|Abbie Krantz |Tiffany |
| scope="row"|1931
|Madeleine's Mother (uncredited) |MGM | |
| scope="row"|1931
|Salvation Army Woman (uncredited) |MGM | |
| scope="row"|1932
|Aunt Agatha |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1932
|The Strange Case of Clara Deane |Mrs. Lyons |Paramount |
| scope="row"|1932
| Rockabye |Brida |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Rockabye|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/4147-ROCKABYE?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1932
|Mrs. Livingston |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Shopworn|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/4009-SHOPWORN?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1932
|Mrs. West |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1932
|Mrs. Tarleton |MGM |
| scope="row"|1932
|Mrs. Keaton |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1933
|Landlady (uncredited) |Paramount |
| scope="row"|1933
|Minerva Winterslip |Fox |
| scope="row"|1933
| The Bitter Tea of General Yen |Mrs. Jackson |Columbia |
| scope="row"|1933
|Auntie |
| scope="row"|1933
|Anna |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1933
|Joe's Mother |MGM |
| scope="row"|1933
|Mrs. Bush |Paramount |
| scope="row"|1933
|Aunt Sophie |Columbia |
| scope="row"|1933
|Miss Perkins |MGM |
| scope="row"|1934
| Beloved |Miss Murfee |Universal |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Beloved|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/935-BELOVED?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1934
|Ma Lovewell |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1934
|Mrs. Douglas |Columbia |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Jealousy|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/7483-JEALOUSY?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1934
|Cora |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1934
|Miss Newberry |MGM |
| scope="row"|1934
|Ma Fisher |MGM |
| scope="row"|1934
|Miss Gower |Columbia |
| scope="row"|1934
|Aunt Margaret |Columbia |
| scope="row"|1934
|Mrs. Peterson |Columbia |
| scope="row"|1935
| |Walter Wanger Productions |
| scope="row"|1935
|Eva Branham |Universal |
| scope="row"|1935
|Miss Van Cortland |Universal |
| scope="row"|1935
|Mrs. Anderson |Universal |
| scope="row"|1935
|Mathilda Sherman |Columbia |
| scope="row"|1935
|Aunt Maggie |MGM |
| scope="row"|1936
|Fury |Judge's wife |MGM |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Fury|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/4094-FURY?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1936
|Judge Mary F. O'Daugherty |First National |
| scope="row"|1936
|Aunt Ellen |First National |
| scope="row"|1936
|Mrs. Dell |RKO |
| scope="row"|1936
|Martha Adams |
| scope="row"|1936
|Louisa Abbott |MGM |
| scope="row"|1936
|The Trail of the Lonesome Pine |Landlady |Walter Wanger |
| scope="row"|1936
|Mrs. Jorham |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1937
|Townswoman |
| scope="row"|1937
|Evie Curtis |Universal |
| scope="row"|1937
|Agatha Kingdon |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1937
|Mrs. Armstrong |
| scope="row"|1937
|Aunt Mattie |
| scope="row"|1937
|Willy's Mother |Universal |
| scope="row"|1938
|Ma Sisler |Universal |
| scope="row"|1938
|Phoebe Sawyer |RKO |
| scope="row"|1938
|Julia "Granny" Blair |
| scope="row"|1938
|Aunt Polly |Paramount |
| scope="row"|1938
|Mrs. Green - Landlady |Harold Lloyd Corp |
| scope="row"|1939
|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |Miss Watson |MGM |
| scope="row"|1939
|I Was a Convict (1939) |Aunt Sarah Scarlett |
| scope="row"|1939
|Mrs. Griffin |20th Century |
| scope="row"|1939
|Mrs. Borst |20th Century |
| scope="row"|1939
|MGM |
| scope="row"|1939
|Miss Esther Jones John Duke |Paramount |
| scope="row"|1939
|Uncredited |Republic | |
| scope="row"|1940
|Mrs. Burns |
| scope="row"|1940
|Miss Bradshaw |20th Century |
| scope="row"|1940
|Jessica Spence |Voco Productions |
| scope="row"|1940
|Aunt Martha |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Tomboy|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/4637-TOMBOY?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1940
|Mrs. Morton Pringle |RKO |
| scope="row"|1940
| |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1941
|Customer |MGM |
| scope="row"|1941
|Miss Phillips |20th Century |
| scope="row"|1941
|Mrs. Williams |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1941
|Miss Juliet Mitchell |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1941
|Nurse |Universal |
| scope="row"|1941
|Sister Watkins |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1941
|Mrs. Higgins |MGM |
| scope="row"|1942
|Mrs. Beasley |20th Century |
| scope="row"|1942
|Tourist |Universal |
| scope="row"|1942
|Aunt Lucy in Photo (uncredited) |Paramount | |
| scope="row"|1942
|Woman on train (uncredited) |Warner Bros. | |
| scope="row"|1943
|Mrs. Mason |Paramount |align="center"|{{cite web |title=Dixie|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/404-DIXIE?cxt=filmography|website=catalog.afi.com |access-date=April 20, 2020}} |
| scope="row"|1943
|Grandmother Van Cleve |20th Century |
| scope="row"|1943
|Old lady on subway |MGM |
| scope="row"|1944
|Aunt Cissy |Universal |
| scope="row"|1944
|Mother Randall |Monogram |
| scope="row"|1945
|Abigail |Universal |
| scope="row"|1945
|Belle Kincaid |Universal |
| scope="row"|1946
|Mrs. McBroom |Universal |
| scope="row"|1946
|Mrs. Meade |
| scope="row"|1946
|Martha |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1946
|Grandma Wilson |
| scope="row"|1946
|Mrs. Barry |20th Century |
| scope="row"|1947
|Stella Blendon |
| scope="row"|1947
|Miss Wiggins |Warner Bros. |
| scope="row"|1948
|as Aunt Pewtie |MGM |
| scope="row"|1949
|Susan Balmuss |Columbia |
| scope="row"|1949
|Roots in the Soil | | |
| scope="row"|1950
|Liza |MGM |
| scope="row"|1950
|Landlady |20th Century |
References
- Chicago Daily Tribune, Clara Real 'Ship's Daughter', January 30, 1910.
- Los Angeles Times, Actress Clara Blandick Plays Farewell Scene, April 16, 1962, Page A1.
Footnotes
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last= Alistair |first= Rupert |title= The Name Below the Title : 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age |chapter= Clara Blandick |pages= 40–43 |date= 2018 |edition= First |type= softcover |publisher= Independently published |location= Great Britain |isbn = 978-1-7200-3837-5}}
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