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CALLAWAY WENT THATAWAY

rsonate a star of old Western films, a hopeless drunk who has become a national television idol. Credits: Produced, directed, and written by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank; music, Marlin Skiles; film editor, Cotton Warburton. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel, Jesse White, Fay Roope

Registration LP1333 Renewed

Term began
1951-11-08
Claimant
Loew's Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE10244 filed 1979-01-02 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6907727)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2047 (95 years from the 1951 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 RE10244 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-01-02
Original cited
LP1333 / 1951-11-08
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6907727: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE10244, registered 1979-01-02, for original registration LP1333 published 1951-11-08.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 31594–31606.

executives hire a cowboy to impersonate 
a star of old Western films, a hopeless 
drunk who has become a national television 
idol. 

Credits: Produced, directed, and written 
by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank; 
music, Marlin Skiles; film editor, Cotton 
Warburton. Cast: Fred MacMurray, 
Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel, Jesse 
White, Fay Roope. 

© Loew's Inc.; 8Nov51; LP1333. 

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