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A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.A working girl's fortunes improve when she marries into money, but happiness is not so easily won.
Leo G. Carroll
- Phelps
- (as Leo Carroll)
Candy Candido
- Cafe Entertainer
- (as Candy and Coco)
Otto Heimel
- Cafe Entertainer
- (as Candy and Coco)
Hooper Atchley
- Intern with Dr. Briggs
- (uncredited)
Nellie Bly Baker
- Downstairs Laundress
- (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
- Short-Order Cook
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- John Meehan
- Viña Delmar
- Carey Wilson(uncredited)
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- TriviaOne of the first films to treat alcoholism as a serious problem, instead of a comic device.
- GoofsWhen the chauffeur driven car is pulling up to the estate at the beginning of the film; as you look through the rear window; you see only one person in the back seat. But on the next shot which is a side view of the back seat; there are now three people sitting tightly together in the back seat.
- Quotes
Sadie McKee Brennan: [showing off her bedroom] Here it is.
Opal: Lady, when you say, "I do take thee," how you take him.
Sadie McKee Brennan: [chuckles]
Opal: Got this all to yourself?
Sadie McKee Brennan: Yep, all to myself.
Opal: Always all to yourself?
Sadie McKee Brennan: Yep.
Opal: Well, a whole lot of us do a whole lot more for a whole lot less.
- ConnectionsFeatured in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- SoundtracksAll I Do Is Dream Of You
(1934) (uncredited)
Music by Nacio Herb Brown
Lyrics by Arthur Freed
Played during the opening credits
Sung by Gene Raymond three times
Sung also by Earl Oxford in a show
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Satisfying and trim
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.
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.
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- hildacrane
- Aug 22, 2005
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- Vackra Sadie McKee
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- Budget
- $612,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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