Sadie McKee

Sadie McKee is a 1934 American PreCode 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 Via Delmar. Crawford plays the title character, a young working girl suffering through three troubled relationships on her road to prosperity.

Sadie McKee Crawford works parttime as a serving maid in the same household where her mother is a cook, and is admired by the son of her employer, lawyer Michael Alderson Tone. However, when Michael talks badly of her boyfriend, Tommy Wallace Gene Raymond, during a family dinner, Sadie openly denounces her employers as snobby and insensitive. Sadie then flees to New York City with Tommy, who was fired from his job in the Alderson factory for alleged cheating.Nearly broke, Sadie and Tommy are befriended in New York by Opal Jean Dixon, a hardened club performer, who takes them to her boardinghouse. The next morning, Sadie leaves the boardinghouse to look for a job and makes plans with Tommy to meet at the marriage license bureau at noon. Soon after she leaves, however, neighbor Dolly Merrick Esther Ralston hears Tommy singing in the bathroom and seduces him into joining her traveling club act, which leaves town that morning. ........

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