Hot Saturday (1932)

Director:

William A. Seiter

Writers:

Harvey Fergusson (novel)
Josephine Lovett (adaptation)
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Release Date:

28 October 1932 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

...when her cheating found her out...she sought to make marriage cover her sins! (original ad)

Plot:

A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.

Plot Keywords:

Bank | Rumor | Womanizer | Playboy | Gossip

Cast

Nancy Carroll	...	Ruth Brock
Cary Grant	...	Romer Sheffield
Randolph Scott	...	Bill Fadden
Edward Woods	...	Conny Billop
Lilian Bond	...	Eva Randolph
William Collier Sr.	...	Harry Brock
Jane Darwell	...	Mrs. Ida Brock
Stanley Smith	...	Joe
Rita La Roy	...	Camille
Rose Coghlan	...	Annie Brock
Oscar Apfel	...	Ed W. Randolph
Jessie Arnold	...	Aunt Minnie
Grady Sutton	...	Archie
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nora Cecil	...	Gossip on Telephone (uncredited)
Billy Engle	...	3rd Bank Customer (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
Marjorie Main	...	Gossip in Window (uncredited)
Dave O'Brien	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore	...	2nd Bank Customer (uncredited)
Mark Strong	...	Bank Teller (uncredited)
Frederick Sullivan	...	1st Bank Customer (uncredited)

Directed by
William A. Seiter		(as William Seiter)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Harvey Fergusson		novel
Josephine Lovett		adaptation
Joseph Moncure March		adaptation
Seton I. Miller		screenplay

Produced by
William LeBaron	....	associate producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
John Leipold		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Arthur L. Todd		(photographed by)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Eugene Joseff	....	costume jeweller (uncredited)

Music Department
Karl Hajos	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Paramount Pictures

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (1932) (USA) (theatrical)
• MCA/Universal Pictures (1958) (USA) (TV)
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD) (Included in th "Pre-Code Hollywood Collection")

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Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Filming Locations:

Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Ruth takes off her shoes at Romer's house, they're are covered with mud. But when he hands them to her in the car a moment later, they're mud-free and highly polished.

Quotes:

Ruth Brock:Immoral women shouldn't work in banks, you know. They might corrupt the young dollar bills.

Soundtrack:

Isn't It Romantic?

Gossip

Newcomer Cary Grant was paired with Paramount star Nancy Carroll in Hot Saturday, a film which is most dated, but still packs quite a punch. Nancy Carroll's stardom was beginning to slip while Cary as we know was fast on the rise.

Hot Saturday however is about gossip, something that will eternally be with us. But happy to say some people's attitudes have definitely changed for the better. Nancy Carroll would not be fired today from her job at a bank because of her private life.

Carroll's a popular girl with all the young men of her town, but she's engaged to stalwart Randolph Scott who's a promising young engineer. One of her fellow co-workers at the bank Edward Wood tries to put the moves on her, but she won't give him a tumble. It's he who starts a nasty rumor about Carroll and the town playboy Cary Grant who is guilty of nothing more than offering her a ride home in his car after she ran off from Woods.

Depending on where you are from malicious gossip will probably not have the effect it does on Nancy Carroll. Still it can damage one. Years ago in a former place of work and we're talking now about the 1970s I recall in my office there was a section known as the 'poison pond'. It was where a few women who had nothing else to do but gossip about everything and everyone else around. No escaped their malicious tongues and something like what happens to Nancy Carroll would have been grist for that mill for a month.

Thank God people have a more live and let live attitude, but gossip is still a perennial problem and Hot Saturday deals nicely with it.