Image: Skelton dress rehearsal

Description: Dress rehearsal of The Red Skelton Show depicting Red Skelton and Mickey Rooney from two-page Montsanto ad in Life magazine. The sketch appears to be a parody of the CBS game show Do You Trust Your Wife?
Title: Skelton dress rehearsal
Credit: pages 126 (photo) and 127 Life magazine 11 March 1957.
Author: Montsanto/CBS-TV.
Permission: The ad appeared in the 11 March 1957 issue of Life magazine which can be viewed at the Google Books link above. Further research indicates the image depicts the dress rehearsal for Skelton's show of 15 January 1957; Skelton's return to television after his son, Richard, was diagnosed with leukemia. Skelton Mugged For Camera But Real Drama Was Backstage Beaver Valley Times 16 January 1957 SAILOR TAKES A WIFE Red Skelton Show, January 15, 1957. Copy for the photo: "Red Skelton and guest star Mickey Rooney at dress rehearsal, The Red Skelton Show, CBS-TV, Television City, Hollywood, CA." There are no copyright markings on either page of the ad or the photo in it which can be seen in full view at the link above. The ad is not covered by any copyrights for Life magazine. US Copyright Office page 3-magazines are collective works (PDF) "A notice for the collective work will not serve as the notice for advertisements inserted on behalf of persons other than the copyright owner of the collective work. These advertisements should each bear a separate notice in the name of the copyright owner of the advertisement."
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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