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Also Known As	moustache

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Clark Gable as Rhett Butler stands indoors in formal 19th-century attire, holding a cigar, in a scene from the 1939 film Gone with the Wind directed by Victor Fleming.

A black-and-white photo of a white man from the late 19th century wearing an extremely long mustache. Cut-out hands hold a blue razor to the right side of the image.

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