Saturday's Children
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Directed byGregory La Cava
Written byForrest Halsey (dialogue and scenario)
Paul Perez (titles)
Based onSaturday's Children
by Maxwell Anderson
StarringCorinne Griffith
Grant Withers
Albert Conti
Alma Tell
Lucien Littlefield
CinematographyJohn F. Seitz
Edited byHugh Bennett
Music byAlois Reiser
Production
companies
Walter Morosco Productions
First National Pictures
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • April 14, 1929 (1929-04-14)
(Part-Talkie)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles

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. The sound was recorded via the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 14, 1929.[1][2][3] The film is based on the 1927 play Saturday's Children by Maxwell Anderson.

Cast

Music

The film featured a theme song entitled "I Still Believe In You" which was composed by Harry Akst, Grant Clark and Benny Davis.

Preservation

The film is now considered lost.[4]

See also

References

  1. "Saturday's Children". afi.com. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  2. "Saturday's Children". AllMovie. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  3. "Saturday's Children". TCM.com. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  4. American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Saturday's Children
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