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Paramount Famous Lasky Corp., 1929.
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland. Camera: Harry Fischbeck.
With Clara Bow, James Hall,
Jean Arthur, Edna May Oliver,
Jean Harlow, Leone
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Mayme and her sister Janie work as salesgirls in
Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with Bill, a clerk, but Janie
tries to steal him away.
As treasurer of the Employees'
Welfare Club pageant, Janie gets into trouble because she uses the club money to
make a bet on the horse races. She tells her sister about her predicament,
and Mayme goes to Janie's bookie and wins the money back in a dice game.
However, Janie has been asked for the club money and she falsely accuses Mayme
of taking it. Mayme returns with the money and learns that Bill has sold
his radio to help pay back the loss. She tells off her ungrateful sister.
Hearing the truth, Bill rejects Janie and plans marriage with Mayme.
What was said about THE SATURDAY NIGHT
KID:
New York Herald Tribune, by
Richard Watts, Jr.
"Miss
Clara Bow's newest vehicle is a screen adaptation of that amusing play of
several seasons ago, Love 'Em and Leave 'Em. It is, in the present
version, considerably less than a masterpiece; yet, as a result of some amusing
department store scenes and excellent performances by Miss Bow, Miss
Jean Arthur
and Miss Edna May Oliver, it becomes an unostentatious, but reasonably pleasant
entertainment."
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The Films of Jean Harlow
by Michael Conway and Mark Ricci
Bonanza Books, New York 1965
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_NRFPT_01_small.jpg) Mayme, a salesgirl in Ginsberg's department
store, is in love with Bill, another clerk; but when he is promoted to
floorwalker and Mayme's sister, Janie, is made treasurer of the benefit
pageant, Mayme loses Bill to her sister.
Janie, however, has been losing racing bets
placed with Lem Woodruff, proprietor of the boardinghouse where she and
Mayme live; and to make up her losses, she places the pageant money on a
winning horse, but the bet is inadvertently placed on another horse.
She confesses her predicament to Mayme, who wins back the money by shooting
craps with Lem. Janie blames her sister for the loss until Mayme shows
up with the money and vents her righteous wrath on her hypocritical sister;
Janie finds happiness with Jim, a fellow boarder. |
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