Saturday’s Children
film by Sherman [1940]
Learn about this topic in these articles:
discussed in biography
- In Vincent Sherman: Early work
Saturday’s Children (1940) was a step up, a serious drama based on a Maxwell Anderson play; John Garfield and Anne Shirley starred as struggling newlyweds. Sherman explored various genres with his next films. The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940) was a courtroom drama, and…
Read More
role of Garfield
- In John Garfield
…in several successful films, including Saturday’s Children (1940), Castle on the Hudson (1940), The Sea Wolf (1941), and Tortilla Flat (1942). A mild heart attack kept the actor from military service during World War II; fully recovered, he entertained troops and appeared in several war-themed films, the best of which…
Read More