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Karen Allen

American actress
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  • Animal House
    National Lampoon’s Animal House
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    … marked the film debut of Karen Allen (best known for her role in the Indiana Jones franchise) and Bacon.

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    … marked the film debut of Karen Allen (best known for her role in the Indiana Jones franchise) and Bacon.

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  • Indiana Jones
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    / Plot and characters

    …the feisty Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), who runs a rustic bar. Marion possesses the brass medallion headpiece for the staff of the Egyptian god Ra, which can identify where the Ark is hidden. After a barroom battle in which Jones and Marion fight off Nazis led by Gestapo Maj.…

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    …the feisty Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), who runs a rustic bar. Marion possesses the brass medallion headpiece for the staff of the Egyptian god Ra, which can identify where the Ark is hidden. After a barroom battle in which Jones and Marion fight off Nazis led by Gestapo Maj.…

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