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THREE CHAIRS FOR BETTY

a mania for antiques, convinces a gullible dealer that she possesses three valuable Victorian chairs. Credits: Producer, George Bilson; director, Duke Goldstone; screenplay, Earl Baldwin; film editor, Douglas Stewart. Cast: Robert Hutton, Elisabeth Fraser, Mabel Albertson, Emory Parnell, Paul Maxey

Registration LP2469 Renewed

Term began
1952-12-12
Claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE65528 filed 1980-08-29 by Marian B., Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6963004)
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 RE65528 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Marian B., Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-08-29
Original cited
LP2469 / 1952-12-12
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6963004: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE65528, registered 1980-08-29, for original registration LP2469 published 1952-12-12.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 21085–21098.

Newlyweds. A spendthrift wife with a mania 

for antiques, convinces a gullible dealer 
that she possesses three valuable Victorian 
chairs. 

Credits: Producer, George Bilson; direc- 
tor, Duke Goldstone; screenplay, Earl Bald- 
win; film editor, Douglas Stewart. Cast: 
Robert Hutton, Elisabeth Fraser, Mabel 
Albertson, Emory Parnell, Paul Maxey. 

© RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; 12Dec52; 
LP2469. 

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