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Betty Bryant wearing a shawl next to a crucifix in a scene from Forty Thousand Horsemen.
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Betty Bryant wearing a shawl_Forty Thousand Horsemen
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686737
Year
1940

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Betty Bryant wearing a shawl next to a crucifix in a scene from Forty Thousand Horsemen.

Betty Bryant
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actresses
1940s
Forty Thousand Horsemen
Australian cinema

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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.

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