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LILLI MARLENE

was the inspiration for the marching song, "Lilli Marlene.’ Time: World War Il. Credits: Producer, William J. Gell; director, Arthur Crabtree; original story, Leslie Wood; music, Stanley Black; editor, Lister Laurance. Cast: Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermoit, Richard Murdoch, Leslie Dwyer, Estelle Brody

Registration LP1225 No renewal found

Term began
1950-11-10
Claimant
Monarch Productions, Ltd. (Monarch Film Corp., Ltd.)
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1977-1979 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1979 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1977 or 1978 volume; volumes searched: 1977, 1978, 1979.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 38131–38143.

African cafe who was the inspiration for the 
marching song, "Lilli Marlene.’ Time: 
World War Il. 

Credits: Producer, William J. Gell; 
director, Arthur Crabtree; original story, 
Leslie Wood; music, Stanley Black; editor, 
Lister Laurance. Cast: Lisa Daniely, 
Hugh McDermoit, Richard Murdoch, Leslie 
Dwyer, Estelle Brody. 

© Monarch Productions, Ltd. (Monarch 
Film Corp., Ltd.); 10Nov50; LP1225. 

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