Not officially. The scenes involving Anne Shirley's character being coached by her sister (Lee Patrick) to trick John Garfield into marrying her instead of taking a job abroad are eerily similar (almost verbatim) to scenes in the film Week-End Marriage (1932) (1932), where Aline MacMahon teaches her sister-in-law Loretta Young how to trick Norman Foster into proposing. The family setups and marriage dynamics are similar, too, with Roscoe Karns playing similar roles in each film.
But the overall stories differ. "Saturday's Children" is adapted from a play by Maxwell Anderson, while "Week-End Marriage" is based on a story by Faith Baldwin. The two films share no writing credits, although it is worth noting that both films came out of the Warner Bros./First National stable.
But the overall stories differ. "Saturday's Children" is adapted from a play by Maxwell Anderson, while "Week-End Marriage" is based on a story by Faith Baldwin. The two films share no writing credits, although it is worth noting that both films came out of the Warner Bros./First National stable.
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