The Saturday Night Kid
About The Saturday Night Kid
Sisters Mayme and Janie share a New York flat and sell at Ginsberg's department store. Mayme is picked to star in a pageant about the store, then breaks with floorwalker Bill after a jealous scene, and Janie talks him into taking her to a dance. Janie, holding the pageant's orphan-ticket money, gambles it away. Mayme gets it back from the neighbor, Janie tells the pageant crowd that Mayme stole it, and Bill sells his radio to cover the hole. He hears Janie confess and asks Mayme to marry him.
Cast & crew
More about The Saturday Night Kid
A. Edward Sutherland directed this adaptation of the 1926 play Love 'Em and Leave 'Em by George Abbott and John V. A. Weaver, with Ethel Doherty, Lloyd Corrigan, Edward E. Paramore Jr., and titles by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Jane Loring edited, and Paramount released it on 25 October 1929.
Themes
Making
Mayme is late and clowning while Janie is the pageant's treasurer, which is how the orphan money gets into Janie's hands.
Music
John Leipold wrote the music.
Preservation
Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, funded by David Stenn.
Notes
- Clara Bow plays Mayme, Jean Arthur plays Janie, and James Hall plays Bill Taylor. Edna May Oliver is Miss Streeter.
- Jean Harlow, as the salesgirl Hazel, has her first credited speaking role.
- John Leipold wrote the music and is uncredited on the film.
- The UCLA Film and Television Archive preserved it with money from Clara Bow's biographer David Stenn.
Scenes
- Janie gambles away the pageant money with a neighbor.
- At the pageant she blames Mayme, and Bill sells his radio to replace the cash.
- Bill hears Janie admit the theft and asks Mayme to marry him.
Influenced by
- George Abbott and John V. A. Weaver's play Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Saturday Night Kid.webm)
