Public Reel

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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