| |
 |
| |
Clara Bow (left), Edna May Oliver and Jean Arthur.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
|
The Saturday Night Kid
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6015 feet
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Clara Bow [Mayme Barry], Jean Arthur [Janie Barry], James Hall [William Taylor], Edna May Oliver [Miss Streeter], Charles Sellon [Lem Woodruff], Ethel Wales [Lily Woodruff, Lem’s wife], Hyman Meyer [Mr. Ginsberg]; Frank Ross [Ken], Eddie Dunn [Jim], Leone Lane [Pearl], Jean Harlow [Hazel], Getty Bird [Riche Ginsberg], Irving Bacon [McGonigle, the sales manager], Mary Gordon [the reducing customer], Bess Flowers [a customer], Alice Adair [a girl], Ernie S. Adams [a gambler], Billy Bow
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [An A. Edward Sutherland Production; A Paramount All Talking Picture]. / Produced by B.P. Fineman. 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. Photographed (cinematography) by Harry Fischbeck. Film editor, Jane Loring. Intertitles written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 25 October 1929 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP792]. Released 26 October 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format and Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format. Western Electric [?] Vitaphone? sound-on-disc sound system and Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / Bow’s third sound film, after Dangerous Curves (1929). Clarence Badger, Malcolm St. Clair and Richard Hall were successively announced as directors of the film in preproduction publicity. The play was previously filmed as Love ’em and Leave ’em (1926). The film was offered to exhibitors in both sound film versions: sound-on disc and sound-on-film. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (at 6392 feet) by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / 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.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Alcohol: Gin (Bathtub) - Boarding houses - Crime: Bootlegging, Embezzlement - Families: Sister-sister relationships - Gambling: Bookies, Gamblers, Horseracing - Promotions - Radio - Retail: Department stores, Floorwalkers, Sales clerks - Synchronized sound film - Transportation: Streetcars
Listing updated: 9 July 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.4809; Paris-Brooks p. 171; Weaver-Twenty p. 57 : ClasIm-220 p. 36 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
|
