THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
ume the identity of an imaginary character named Earnest to win the affections of their ladyloves. Credits: Producer, Teddy Baird; director, Anthony Asquith; music, Benjamin Frankel; film editor, John D. Guthridge. Cast: Joan Greenwood, Michael Redgrave, Dorothy Tutin Michael Denison, Miles Malleson
Registration LP2587 Renewed
- Term began
- 1953-03-10
- Claimant
- British Film Makers, ltd
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE48156 filed 1980-01-30 by Rank Film Distributors, Ltd. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6945632)
- Enters the public domain
- 1 January 2049 (95 years from the 1953 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 RE48156 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Rank Film Distributors, Ltd. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1980-01-30
- Original cited
- LP2587 / 1953-03-10
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6945632: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE48156, registered 1980-01-30, for original registration LP2587 published 1953-03-10.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 8994–9006.
manners. Two young Englishmen assume the identity of an imaginary character named Earnest to win the affections of their lady- loves. Credits: Producer, Teddy Baird; director, Anthony Asquith; music, Benjamin Frankel; film editor, John D. Guthridge. Cast: Joan Greenwood, Michael Redgrave, Dorothy Tutin Michael Denison, Miles Malleson. © British Film Makers, ltd.; 10Mar53 (in notice: 1952); LP2587.
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