The Cohens and Kellys is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Charles Murray, George Sidney, Kate Price, and Jason Robards Sr. The film is the first of the Cohens and Kellys film serials. The film is perhaps best known today as the subject of Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp., a copyright infringement case, in which Judge Learned Hand articulated the doctrine that copyright protection does not cover the characteristics of stock characters in a story.
Poster
The Cohens and Kellys ad in The Film Daily, 1926
Charles Murray and Olive Hasbrouck
Harry A. Pollard was an American silent film actor and director. His wife was silent screen star Margarita Fischer.
Pollard in 1914
Director Pollard on a lunch break, 1921
Lobby card for Poker Faces (1926)
Poster for When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932)