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Clara Bow (left).
Photo: Silent Era low-res collection. |
The Saturday Night Kid
(1929) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6015 feet
Directed by Edward Sutherland
Cast: Clara Bow [Mayme], James Hall [Bill], Jean Arthur [Janie], Charles Sellon [Lem Woodruff], Ethel Wales [Ma Woodruff], Frank Ross [Ken], Edna May Oliver [Miss Streeter], Hyman Meyer [Ginsberg], Eddie Dunn [Jim], Leone Lane [Pearl], Jean Harlow [Hazel], Getty Bird [Riche Ginsberg], Irving Bacon [McGonigle, the sales manager], Mary Gordon [the reducing customer], Alice Adair [girl], Ernie S. Adams [gambler]
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Screenplay by Ethel Doherty, with dialogue by Lloyd Corrigan and Edward E. Paramore Jr., from the adaptation by Lloyd Corrigan of the play Love ’em and Leave ’em by John Van Alstyne Weaver and George Abbott. Cinematography by Harry Fischbeck. Intertitles by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Edited by Jane Loring. / © 25 October 1929 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP792]. Released 26 October 1929. / [?] Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format? / Bow’s third talking film. A remake of Paramount’s Love ’em and Leave ’em (1926). The film was also released in a silent version at 6392 feet. / Full-sound film.
Comedy-Drama: Romance.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.4809.
Survival Status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.
Keywords: Boarding houses - Crime: Embezzlement - Families: Sister-sister relationships - Gambling: Bookies, Gamblers, Horseracing - Promotions - Retail: Department stores, Floorwalkers, Sales clerks - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 25 March 2007.
References: AFI-F2 n. F2.4809; Paris-Brooks p. 171; Weaver-Twenty p. 57 : ClasIm-220 p. 36.
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