Saturday's Children (1929 film)
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| Directed by | Gregory La Cava |
| Written by | Forrest Halsey (dialogue and scenario) Paul Perez (titles) |
| Based on | Saturday's Children 1927 play by Maxwell Anderson |
| Produced by | Richard A. Rowland |
| Starring | Corinne Griffith Grant Withers Albert Conti Alma Tell Lucien Littlefield |
| Cinematography | John F. Seitz |
| Edited by | Hugh Bennett |
| Music by | Alois Reiser |
Production companies | Walter Morosco Productions First National Pictures |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Sound (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. 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.