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  "description": "Devera Burstein Kettner, a former actress and model who once managed the\n\nCurran Theatre in San Francisco.\n\nBorn and raised in San Francisco, Mrs. Kettner was a famous beauty who\n\ngraduated from Lowell High School and worked as a professional fashion\n\nmodel.\n\nShe acted in local small theater productions and then moved to Southern\n\nCalifornia, where she studied theater at the Pasadena Playhouse. She soon\n\ngot a number of bit parts in movies.\n\nHer big break came in 1949, when, under her screen name Devera Burton, she\n\nlanded a starring role in the South Seas epic \"Omoo-Omoo the Shark God,\"\n\nwhich was loosely based on a novel by Herman Melville. The movie remains a\n\nminor cult classic still available on videotape. After the film, she gave up\n\nher screen career to marry the late Max Kettner and move to New York.",
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      "title": "The Threat",
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