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.