Welles

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BEATRICE WELLES, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 05-55742 v. TURNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY;  D.C. No.

CV-04-03077-JFW

ENTERTAINMENT ACQUISITION

OPINION

COMPANY, INC.,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California John F. Walter, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 16, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed May 30, 2007

Before: Jerome Farris and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Kevin Thomas Duffy,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Gould

*The Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, Senior United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Steven Ames Brown, San Francisco, California, for plaintiff- appellant Beatrice Welles.

David W. Quinto, Daryl M. Crone, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellees Turner Entertainment Co. and Entertain- ment Acquisition Co.

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

Beatrice Welles, the daughter of screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor Orson Welles, filed…