Sadie McKee

Absorbing Cinderella-style romantic melodrama starring Joan Crawford as a maid who falls for wastrel Gene Raymond, married drunken millionaire Edward Arnold but finally finds happiness with upper-crust Franchot Tone., In this ’30s Joan Crawford vehicle, Crawford plays the heroine Sadie McKee, who climbs up the lover’s ladder from a drifter/loser, to a millionaire lush, to a hard-working successful businessman who falls for her and, as she finally realizes, she for him., A woman stranded in New York after her boyfriend dumps her marries a millionaire, but suffers from the cruelty of his family who believes she’s a golddigger. All the while, her former boss waits for her to realize he loves her.