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The Saturday Night Kid
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6015 feet
Directed by A. 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 [An A. Edward Sutherland Production; A Paramount Picture]. / 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. Film editor, Jane Loring. Intertitles written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. / © 25 October 1929 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP792]. Released 26 October 1929. / [?] Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 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.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

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: 23 November 2011.

References: AFI-F2 n. F2.4809; Paris-Brooks p. 171; Weaver-Twenty p. 57 : ClasIm-220 p. 36.

Home video: DVD.

 
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