Saturday Night
About Saturday Night
Iris is engaged to the socialite Richard and marries her chauffeur, Tom, instead. Richard marries Shamrock, the laundress’s daughter. The two households fail on class, and the marriages are undone and remade. Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel, and Edith Roberts lead the cast. It was Joy’s first film with Cecil B. DeMille.
Cast & crew
More about Saturday Night
DeMille directed and produced. Jeanie MacPherson wrote it. Karl Struss photographed it. Anne Bauchens edited. Paramount distributed. Wikidata times it at 90 minutes. Jack Mower, Julia Faye, Edythe Chapman, Theodore Roberts, and William Boyd are also billed.
Themes
Making
MacPherson’s script sends both couples across the class line and then pulls the marriages apart. Struss shot it for DeMille at Paramount.
Look
Karl Struss photographed Joy, Nagel, and Roberts in the two households.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The swap is chauffeur for socialite, and laundress’s daughter for the man Iris left.
- Joy had not worked for DeMille before this picture.
- Wikidata lists a California location credit without naming a town.
- A Commons file is titled Saturday night (1922).
Scenes
- Iris leaves Richard and marries Tom.
- Richard marries Shamrock.
- The class mismatch breaks both marriages.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Saturday night (1922).webm)
