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Sadie McKee (1934)
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9 May 1934 (USA)
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The life of Sadie McKee takes many twists and turns. She starts as the daughter of the cook for the well off Alderson family...
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Alcoholic
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Cook
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Millionaire
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Unemployment
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Melodrama
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Satisfying and trim
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Joan Crawford | ... | Sadie McKee |
 | Gene Raymond | ... | Tommy Wallace |
 | Franchot Tone | ... | Michael Alderson |
| Edward Arnold | ... | Jack Brennan |
| Esther Ralston | ... | Dolly Merrick |
| Earl Oxford | ... | Stooge |
| Jean Dixon | ... | Opal |
| Leo G. Carroll | ... | Phelps - Brennan's Butler (as Leo Carroll) |
| Akim Tamiroff | ... | Riccori - Cafe Owner |
| Zelda Sears | ... | Mrs. Craney - Landlady |
| Helen Ware | ... | Mrs. McKee |
| Gene Austin | ... | Cafe Entertainer on Piano |
| Coco and Candy | ... | Cafe Entertainers (as Candy and Coco) |
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93 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Many people who are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Alice Mae (Secretary at Michael's), Sam McDaniel (Red Cap), William Welsh (Conductor), Doris Kemper (Nurse) and Eugene Borden (Ship's Bugler)
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Opal:
Feeling better?
Sadie McKee Brennan: Yes, thanks to you.
Opal: You're gonna find out about men - -the tripe.
Sadie McKee Brennan: No, thanks. Not interested.
Opal: Swell. They come to my dump to get taken, see? And if you're smart...
[to woman in subway]
Opal: Am I talking loud enough?
Sadie McKee Brennan: I'm kind of sick of men.
Opal: Oh, you're crazy. They've got what we want, all of it. And every gal has her price. Yours ought to be high.
[to woman on subway]
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Sadie McKee Brennan: Yes, thanks to you.
Opal: You're gonna find out about men - -the tripe.
Sadie McKee Brennan: No, thanks. Not interested.
Opal: Swell. They come to my dump to get taken, see? And if you're smart...
[to woman in subway]
Opal: Am I talking loud enough?
Sadie McKee Brennan: I'm kind of sick of men.
Opal: Oh, you're crazy. They've got what we want, all of it. And every gal has her price. Yours ought to be high.
[to woman on subway]
[...]
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Movie Connections:
Featured in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
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Home, Sweet Home
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I'm a big fan of the Crawford oeuvre, in all its permutations and occasional excesses. That said, her Sadie is refreshingly underplayed and sincere. The mid-Atlantic accent that she tended to is at a minimum here, and there is a fluidity that is in much contrast to the Greek tragic masks, riveting though they are, of some of her later performances. The wonderful Jean Dixon is on hand in a role that is a precursor to Eve Arden's pal of "Mildred Pierce" and "Goodbye My Fancy"--worldly, rueful, self-denigrating. (Mary Phillips took on a similar part in "The Bride Wore Red" several years later.) Esther Ralston does a fine job as the blowsy, sensuous man-stealer--at one point she practically does a Mae West with her intonations and stance. Solid performances also from Franchot Tone and Gene Raymond and the always-reliable, under-appreciated Edward Arnold. The very engaging Earl Oxford appears as "the Stooge" and one wonders why this charmer did not have a film career.
The story is serviceable, and there is a motif of characters' taking responsibility for their lives, and, as best they can, making amends for wrongs. Note that at the start and end of the film there are scenes in which the camera follows a character from one room to the next in such a way that you realize that there is not any real partition between the two rooms--an enjoyable little breaking of the "fourth wall" premise of theater.