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Kept Husbands (1931)

Name: Kept Husbands
Genre: Classic Drama
Released: 1931
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Cast: Mary Carr, Clara Kimball Young, Joel McCrea, Dorothy Mackaill, Ned Sparks

193175 minClassic DramaStrong rights evidence

Kept Husbands (1931) is a 75-minute classic film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silver Screen (CH 2) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Lloyd Bacon.

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About Kept Husbands (1931)

Kept Husbands is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dorothy Mackaill and Joel McCrea, with major supporting roles filled by Robert McWade, Florence Roberts and Mary Carr. The original story was written by the film's associate producer, Louis Sarecky, and adapted for the screen by Forrest Halsey and Alfred Jackson.

Arthur Parker is a wealthy steel magnate who is relating the story to his snobbish wife and spoiled daughter of one of his plant supervisors who fearlessly rushed in and saved the lives of two of his fellow co-workers. When his wife, Henrietta, asks if he rewarded the young man, Parker shows his astonishment by saying that the hero had refused the thousand dollars he had offered. When the daughter, Dot, remarks that she would like to meet a man like that, the father tells her not to worry, she will, for he is coming to dinner that very evening.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Kept Husbands (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Cast includes: Mary Carr, Clara Kimball Young, Joel McCrea, Dorothy Mackaill, Ned Sparks, Bryant Washburn, Robert McWade, Gregory Gaye
Country: United States

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Airs on

Silver Screen - CH 2, Classic Cinema

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Copyright not renewed.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Copyright not renewed.
Source: Internet Archive

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