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Sadie McKee
Sadie McKee
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Directed by	Clarence Brown
Screenplay by	John Meehan
Based on	"Pretty Sadie McKee"; in 1933 Liberty; by Viña Delmar
Produced by	Lawrence Weingarten
Starring	Joan Crawford ; Gene Raymond ; Franchot Tone
Cinematography	Oliver T. Marsh
Edited by	Hugh Wynn
Music by	Nacio Herb Brown (music); Arthur Freed (lyrics)
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's Inc.
Release date	May 9, 1934;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$612,000
Box office	$1,302,000 (worldwide rentals)

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.^[2] Crawford plays the title character, from young working girl through poverty, a marriage into enormous wealth and finally a (seemingly) settled life on her own terms.

Sadie McKee is the third of seven films Crawford and Franchot Tone made together. At the time of filming, Crawford recently had divorced Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and soon she and Tone were involved romantically. The couple married in 1935.^[3]

The song “All I Do Is Dream of You” features in the film’s opening titles and certain key sequences, sung (for the most part) by Gene Raymond. It was written by Nacio Herb Brown (music) and Arthur Freed (lyrics) for Sadie McKee. Since 1952, audiences have known this song best from its use in the film Singin' in the Rain, where it is sung at high speed by Debbie Reynolds and a group of chorus girls after Reynolds pops out of a cake at a Hollywood party. It also was used in A Night at the Opera (1935) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).

As a film released in 1934 that had its copyright renewed, the film will enter the public domain on January 1, 2030.^[a]

^ ^a ^b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ Goble, Alan, ed. (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 123. ISBN 3-110-95194-0.
^ Landazuri, Margarita. Sadie McKee (article) on TCM.com

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[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[2] Goble, Alan, ed. (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 123. ISBN 3-110-95194-0.

[tcmart-3] Landazuri, Margarita. Sadie McKee (article) on TCM.com

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