Saturdays Children (Warner Bros.) (1940)

ADVANCE PUBLICITY—’SATURDAY’S CHILDREN’ ‘Saturday's Children’ Movie True to Famous Poem Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace, Wednesday’s child is loving and giving, Thursday’s child works hard for a living. Friday’s child is full of woe,. Saturday’s child has far to go. And that is why Anne Shirley and John Garfield are searching for happiness in Warners’ “Saturday’s Children.” This cute jingle inspired Maxwell Anderson to write his Still JG 120; Mat 104—15c JOHN GARFIELD Pulitzer Prize-winning play which has been made into a picture and will open at the Strand on Friday. Dramatically portrayed and packed with human interest, this famous story is simple and appealing. John Garfield and Anne Shirley play the parts of a young couple beset with early marriage problems. This little poem amazingly rings true in both Anne’s and John’s real life. John was born on a Tuesday and Anne on a Thursday. Some of Webster’s definitions of grace are, fate, luck, a pleasing or attractive characteristic, feature or manner. When John was a boy, it was fate that he was sent to Angelo Patri’s school instead of any other correction Love on a Budget Them of ‘Saturday's Children’ Love on a budget is the theme of “Saturday’s Children,” the picture scheduled to open on Friday at the Strand Theatre, with John Garfield and Anne Shirley in the co-starring roles. Featured with them are Claude Rains, Roscoe Karns, Lee Patrick, Dennie Moore, George Tobias, Elizabeth Risdon and Berton Churchill. The story was adapted by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein (well-known scenarists for the “Four Daughters” series) from the Maxwell Anderson play, “Saturday’s Children,” which was a Pulitzer Prize-winner. Vincent Sherman directed. _ STILL SERVICE! ... Stills available on most of the scene cuts on the publicity pages in this Campaign Plan. Price 15c each. Order by still number indicated under each cut, from Cam paign Plan Editor. If still number is not given, photo is not available because the cut was made from a@ special retouch or a composite. (*Asterisk denotes still is included in regular set available at local Vitagraph Exchanges.) school. It was luck that Angelo Patri suggested acting, as a career, to John instead of some other trade. It is John’s pleasing and attractive personality that has helped him develop into a successful actor. And ‘“Saturday’s Children” gives him the opportunity to display a new side of that personality, for it is his first romantic comedy role, after a series of highly dramatic parts in such pictures as “Four Daughters,” “They Made Me A Criminal,” “Dust Be My Destiny,” “Daughters Courageous” and “Castle On The Hudson.” Anne Shirley has been working for a living ever since she was a baby. She started posing for a commercial artist at the age of two and the next year she started her picture career. Ever since this early age, Anne has earned a yearly salary. At sixteen, she -got her first big break when she was given the title role in “Anne Of Green Gables.” To cash in on this bit of luck she changed her name legally from Dawn O’Day to Anne Shirley, which is the name of the “Green Gables” heroine. Since that time she has had a long series of fine roles in films. “Saturday’s Children” is her first picture for Warner Bros. If you’re a Saturday’s child don’t feel downhearted for, as in the picture, you probably will arrive sooner than you expect. ANNE SHIRLEY HAS FIRST ADULT ROLE IN STRAND FILM Hollywood’s_ re-discovery of the year is Anne Shirley. Recently signed by Warner Bros. to play the lead opposite John Garfield in Maxwell Anderson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Saturday’s Children,” Anne is given, for the first time, a chance to do a dramatic adult part. In this picture, Anne portrays the most difficult role of her career. Anne has received acclaim from the public and press for her fine characterizations ; of teen-age youngsters in the past. ““Saturday’s Children,” opening Friday at the Strand Theatre shows an entirely different girl. She plays the part of a young wife experiencing the trials and problems of the first year of married life. Just twenty years old, Warners predict that in the not too distant future she will be recognized as the finest dramatic actress in pictures. So pleased with her sincere portrayal in her first starring picture on their lot, Warners are endeavoring to obtain Anne from RKO for two pictures a year. “This is the greatest opportunity of my career,” says Anne who has played in pictures since she was three years old. She has never missed an opportunity in Mat 102—15c Anne Shirley the past. Anne has two strikes on success for this reason. She has studied and lived motion pictures since she was a child. She has both personality and _ ability, having developed her talent through years of experience and hard work. This is why Anne Shirley will always be on top. Still SC 37*; Mat 203—30c A KISS FOR THE BRIDE—John Garfield and his screen bride, Anne Shirley clinch, with George Tobias (left) and Dennie Moore (right) lending encouragement. It’s all part of the gala goings-on in Saturday’s Children”. 100-T0-1 SHOT ROMPS HOME A WINNER! John Garfield, ‘Saturday's Children’ Star Overcame Tough Odds to Rise to the Top John Garfield, who has overcome odds ever since he was a boy, is already on his way to the winner’s circle. His whole life is the theater whether it be on stage or screen, for it was the theater that gave him a new lease on living. When a boy, John was a misfit and a roughneck having been brought up in one of the toughest neighborhoods in New York. After being expelled from one school after another, he was given a last chance in the school run by Angelo Patri, noted child psychologist. Patri knew if this boy could find something that would interest him, he would soon be over his wildness. Patri told Garfield that he might make a good actor and the suggestion met with enthusiasm. From that time on, Garfield ate and slept dramatics. He won a scholarship at the Heckscher Foundation, and from there he joined the Eva Le Gallienne Repertory Theatre as an apprentice. He soon attracted the attention of producers. From then on he starred or featured in a number of plays, among which were “Counselor at Law,” “Waiting for Lefty,” “Golden Boy,” and “Having Wonderful Time.” As a result of his outstanding performance in “Having Wonderful Time,” John was signed to a long term contract by Warner Bros. He feels that motion pictures are another way of bettering himself as an actor. He wants at one time or another to portray every type of character. This is the reason he is so elated over his present role in Maxwell Anderson’s Pulitzer prize winner, “Saturday’s Children” opening at the Strand Theatre on Friday for it gives him his first romantic comedy part, and is completely different from anything he has yet done. John has a definite advantage over the majority of actors and actresses in Hollywood. He has a personality that has been developed through years of acting experience. His personality is no “flash in the pan”, but being substantially rooted in real talent may be expected to last through his career. John has risen to success the hard way—and he’s going to stay there! COMEDY BECKONS TO RAINS All comedians have the desire to portray heavy dramatic roles. It is not strange that Claude Rains has a keen desire to become a comedy star. Rains is known as an outstanding dramatic star. But in his newest picture ‘“‘Satu.rday.’s Children,’’ opening at the Strand Friday, he has an opportunity for the first time in his career to do straight comedy. In the picture he has the role of a clerk who supports his family on his meagre earnings. Making up for lack of money with a sense of humor, the household lives a merry life for father always has a joke to Mat 106—15c Claude Rains [14] brighten up the situation. There is no telling just how this new role might change Rains’ career. Some examples of what new roles did for present day stars are Wallace Beery, Myrna Loy, John Barrymore, and Edward G. Robinson. Beery started in the picture business by playing villain roles. He was given a chance to do comedy in a series of pictures with Raymond Hatton and look at the results. He is now considered one of the outstanding comedians of the screen. Myrna Loy who used to make audiences shudder with her oriental roles was finally offered an opportunity for comedy in the “Thin Man” pictures. She, too, has had outstanding success and fans throughout the world now consider her the ideal screen wife. John Barrymore, supposedly washed up in pictures, was given a comedy role in “True Confession.” He proved so successful that he once again became a top star. BIOGRAPHIES IN BRIEF JOHN GARFIELD was a “problem” child. Born on the lower East Side in New York of very poor parents, he was well on the way to becoming a juvenile delinquent when he landed in Angelo Patri’s school for problem children. The noted educator took him in hand, interested him in boxing and in oratory, helped im get a scholarship at a school of drama. It was with the Group Theatre that he rose to prominence, and while he was playing in “Golden Boy” that he accepted a Warner Bros. contract. His work in “Four Daughters” brought him immediate acclaim. He is currently starring in “Saturday’s Children”. * * * ANNE SHIRLEY is her own good luck charm. Ever since she was a year old she has depended on her good fortune to see her through—and it has. At that age she was posing for commercial artist, and she made her first film appearance at the age of three. Realizing that the child possessed amazing talent, her mother brought her to Hollywood. At sixteen, she got the star role in “Anne of Green Gables”’. Is considered one of the screen’s best young dramatic stars, which is why Warner Bros. borrowed her for “Saturday’s Children.” * * & CLAUDE RAINS was ten years old when he started playing hookey from the school he attended in London, to work as a page boy in a theatre. He rose from page to prompter, to business manager, stage manager, and finally, actor. Subsequently came to New York, and appeared in a number of Theatre Guild plays. Hollywood, as the saying goes, beckoned. He alternates highly dramatic roles with fatherly interpretations such as he plays in “Saturday’s Children.” %* * * ROSCOE KARNS is that rarity among motion picture actors— a native Californian. Born in San Bernadino, he attended Harvard Military Academy in Los Angeles. On Saturdays he would take the buttons off his snappy dress uniform and usher at a nearby playhouse, and it was there that his theatrical ambitions were born. He quit school and got a job in a stock company in San Diego, and remained in stock for the next ten years. King Vidor spotted him at the Morrosco Theatre in Los Angeles and offered him a screen role. He’s been in pictures ever since. Latest role is the brother-in-law in “Saturday’s Children”. * * * LEE PATRICK started going to the theatre when she was six years old. She accompanied her father, Warren A. Patrick, who wrote dramatic reviews for New York papers, to all the openings he had to cover. It was only natural that Lee decided to become an actress. For several years she toured the country with a stock company, then made her debut on Brodway. Came to Hollywood in 1987. She plays the worldly-wise sister in “Saturday’s Children”. * oe & DENNIE MOORE is always afraid that when she meets people they will expect her to talk the way she does on the secreen—and be just as dumb. A native New Yorker, she possesses only the faintest trace of the New York accent which she satirizes so beautifully on the screen. She has been on the stage since she was fifteen (not too many years ago). She is considered most able at portraying the typical “stenog”, which she does in “Saturday’s Children.”