Public Reel

THE MERRY WIDOW

rry her in order to gain control of her wealth. Credits: Producer, Joe Pasternak; director, Curtis Bernhardt; screenplay, Sonya Levien, William Ludwig; music director, Jay Blackton; film editor, Conrad A. Nervig. Technicolor. Cast: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn, Thomas Gomez

Registration LP1866 Renewed

Term began
1952-07-07
Claimant
Loew's Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE43724 filed 1980-01-10 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6941200)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 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 RE43724 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-10
Original cited
LP1866 / 1952-07-07
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6941200: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE43724, registered 1980-01-10, for original registration LP1866 published 1952-07-07.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 44522–44533.

marry her in order to gain control of her 
wealth. 

Credits: Producer, Joe Pasternak; direc- 
tor, Curtis Bernhardt; screenplay, Sonya 
Levien, William Ludwig; music director, 
Jay Blackton; film editor, Conrad A. Nervig. 
Technicolor. Cast: Lana Turner, Fernando 
Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn, Thomas 
Gomez. 

© Loew's Inc.; 7Jul52; LP1866. 

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