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Sadie McKee is a 1934 American pre-Code, romantic-drama film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford, and featuring Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold, and Esther Ralston. The film is based on the 1933 short story "Pretty Sadie McKee", by Viña Delmar.
Sadie McKee: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold. A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.
Sadie McKee (1934) was a film which particularly resonated with echoes of Joan Crawford's early life. Sadie starts out as a maid, the daughter of the cook in a wealthy household. Crawford, the daughter of a laundress, had worked her way through school as a maid.
When spirited maid Sadie McKee (played by a very fresh-faced Joan Crawford) overhears her snobby aristocrat employers badmouth her boyfriend, she verbally puts them in their place and denounces her job.
Jul 12, 2017 · On the heels of Dancing Lady (1933), MGM teamed up off screen couple Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone for another on screen romance in Sadie McKee (1944). But it seems like Hollywood wouldn't let Crawford be the apple of one eye. She has to be desired by several.
The titular McKee herself, as played by the remarkably coy Crawford, goes from lovestruck servant to dancer to millionairess over the course of ninety minutes as fate and fortune intervene. Sadie has a good heart, even if it’s put through the proverbial ringer with every ounce of strength the screenwriter had.
Sadie McKee Brennan : I'm afraid so. Opal : Well, control yourself because you got everything. Everything!
