Loading an image into 2 separate movieclips

programming flash
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I was wondering if it was possible to load an image once, and put it into two different MCs.
Here is the code i have. As you can see, the same image is loaded twice. The problem is that I think that if I duplicate the movieclip, it gets duplicated without the loaded image. Any ideas?

Thanks!

switch (choice) {

case 0 :
	this.blur.loadMovie("themes/01blur.jpg");
	this.blur2.loadMovie("themes/01blur.jpg");
	this.theme.loadMovie("themes/01base.jpg");
	current_color = '0x99FF99';
	break;
case 1 :
	this.blur.loadMovie("themes/02blur.jpg");
	this.blur2.loadMovie("themes/02blur.jpg");
	this.theme.loadMovie("themes/02base.jpg");
	current_color = '0xFF99FF';
	break;
}