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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.
A maid (Joan Crawford) has romances with a two-timer (Gene Raymond), a boozing millionaire and the master (Franchot Tone) of the house.
- Drama
At its trough, Sadie McKee is a dark reflection of the era’s gold-digger comedies as her sugar daddy proves far less manageable than the typical befuddled buffoon that Guy Kibbee might have played.
Sadie McKee Brennan : I'm afraid so. Opal : Well, control yourself because you got everything. Everything!
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 ★★★ 1934 A melodrama with Crawford as a maid searching for love in the big city. She falls for a selfdestructive ne'er-do-well, marries an alcoholic millionaire, and eventually finds true love with the wealthy Tone (who would become Crawford's third husband).
A working girl suffers through three troubled relationships on her road to prosperity in Sadie McKee (1934), directed by Clarence Brown and starring Joan Crawford.
Look higher, young woman. First-rate pre-code melodrama of the highest order—in that you never know what turn it's going to take: from love to bitterness to reconciliation to debilitating respiratory illness. Crawford never looked so beautiful as between two candles, or hair slicked back.
