Public Reel

BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING

BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING. 1939. 68 min., sd.

Grace Norton, Adele Buffington; producer, B. P. Fineman; director, Glenn Tryon; story, Edmund L. Hartmann; screenplay, Doris Anderson, Paul Jarrico; editor, George Crone; music director, Roy Webb.

Registration LP8654 Renewed

Term began
1939-02-10
Claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R385779 filed 1966-05-16 by LPB 65). RKO General, Inc (title+window; CCE 1966, OCR line 13714)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2035 (95 years from the 1939 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R385779 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
LPB 65). RKO General, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1966-05-16
Original cited
None / 10Febd39
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1966: Internet Archive catalogofc19663201213libr, OCR text line 13714
BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING, a photoplay in 
seven reels by RKO Radio Pictures. 
© 10Febd39; LPB 65). RKO General, 
Inc. (PWH); 16May66; R385779. 
BEST OF THE BLUES, a photoplay in nine 
reels by Paramount Pictures. 

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 14530–14538.

  BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING. 1939. 68 min., sd.

    Credits: Grace Norton, Adele Buffington; producer, B. P. Fineman;
    director, Glenn Tryon; story, Edmund L. Hartmann; screenplay, Doris
    Anderson, Paul Jarrico; editor, George Crone; music director, Roy
    Webb.

    © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 10Feb39; LP8654.

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