TONIGHT OR NEVER
TONIGHT OR NEVER. United Artists. Presented by Samuel Goldwyn. 1931. 9 reels, sd. Based on David Belasco's stage success by Lili Hatvany.
Director, Mervyn Leroy; screenplay, Ernest Vajda; adaptation, Frederick Hatton, Fanny Hatton; film editor, Grant Whytock; music director, Alfred Newman.
Registration LP2739 Renewed
- Term began
- 1931-12-26
- Claimant
- Feature Productions, Inc
- Author
- Lili Hatvany, author
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- renewal R229845 filed 1959-02-02 by Mary Pickford Rogers (number+title; CCE 1959, OCR line 16965)
- Enters the public domain
- 1 January 2027 (95 years from the 1931 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 R229845 (link: number+title, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Mary Pickford Rogers (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1959-02-02
- Original cited
- L2739 / 26Dec51
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1959: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3131213li, OCR text line 16965
TONIGHT OR NEVER, a photoplay in nine reels by Mary Pickford Rogers. ; © 26Dec51; L2739. Mary Pickford Rogers (PWH); 2Feb59; R229845. TOO MANY COOKS, < photopliay in eight reels by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 247251–247259.
TONIGHT OR NEVER. United Artists. Presented by Samuel Goldwyn. 1931. 9
reels, sd. Based on David Belasco's stage success by Lili Hatvany.
Credits: Director, Mervyn Leroy; screenplay, Ernest Vajda;
adaptation, Frederick Hatton, Fanny Hatton; film editor, Grant
Whytock; music director, Alfred Newman.
© Feature Productions, Inc. (Lili Hatvany, author); 26Dec31; LP2739.
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