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- ↑ "'In Abraham's Bosom' 1926" playbillvault.com, accessed November 29, 2015
- 1 2 Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich. "1927 Award", Outstanding Broadway Dramas and Comedies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Theater Productions, LIT Verlag Münster, 2013, ISBN 3643903413, pp. 24-25
- ↑ In Abraham's Bosom at the Internet Broadway Database
- ↑ Jones, Stephen G. (December 7, 2018). The British Labour Movement and Film, 1918-1939. Routledge. ISBN 9780429830488 – via Google Books.
