Saturday's Children

Saturday's Children (1940)

Young, Married, Poor...and Proud of it!

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

Date of release
1940-05-04
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Vincent Sherman

Casting

Interesting facts

Saturday's Children is a 1940 American romance drama film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring John Garfield, Anne Shirley, and Claude Rains. It is a third-time remake of the original Maxwell Anderson play with a previous version released in 1935 under the title Maybe It's Love and Saturday's Children released in 1929. The title comes from the nursery rhyme in which Saturday’s child works hard for a living.

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures originally cast Priscilla Lane in the lead but Garfield was sure that the Lane Sisters would somehow have to be written in as well. He used his influence to get the studio to borrow Shirley from RKO. Julius Epstein thought Garfield's performance was the closest he came to playing his real self. Usually discontented with the way he was typecast by the studio, Garfield was unusually proud of his restrained characterization.

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