Saturday's Children (1929)

Directed by

Gregory La Cava

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A romantic comedy from the early sound era. A young woman navigates love and marriage choices. The film is based on a play and includes both spoken dialogue and silent intertitles.

lightheartedplayfulbreezyclassicromanticwhimsicaldatedtalky

What happens

Saturday's Children is a 1929 American sound part-talkie romantic-comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava, and starring Corinne Griffith, Grant Withers, Albert Conti, Alma Tell, Lucien Littlefield. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. According to the film review in Variety, 60 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. The sound was recorded via the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 14, 1929. The film is based on the 1927 play Saturday's Children by Maxwell Anderson. It was remade three-times of the original Maxwell Anderson play with the other versions released in 1935 under the title Maybe It's Love and Saturday's Children released in 1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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