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Frances Djulibing was working in the local shop in Ramingining when film director Rolf de Heer met her. He cast her in his 2006 movie Ten Canoes as 'Nowalingu'. As a teenager Frances had seen the Marilyn Monroe movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and decided on becoming an actress.