The photo was cropped from the lobby card shown above.
A search for copyright renewal was done at copyright.gov using the film title. There was only one listing-a renewal for the book the film was based on:
Type of Work: Text
Registration Number / Date: RE0000397731 / 1988-10-14
There's no evidence of continuing copyright for the film or any materials related to it.
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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.