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DEZENDORF v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORP.

No. 1173-C.

32 F.Supp. 359 (1940)

DEZENDORF v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION.

District Court, S. D. California, Central Division.

January 29, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Naylor, of San Francisco, Cal., and Calvin L. Helgoe, of Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

Alfred Wright, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant.

COSGRAVE, District Judge.

The plaintiff's play and the defendant's motion picture were both written for the use of the child actress, Shirley Temple. It is not unnatural, therefore, that they should have common features. These they have: An orphaned American child in China, missionaries, bandit raids, protection of the child by an individual who happens to be a bachelor, the influence of the child as an agency in the marriage of her protector and a woman. These are...

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