Spotlight Sadie

Spotlight Sadie

1919 · 50 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy

Sadie Sullivan leaves Ireland to live with her married sister in New York. Troubled by her worthless brother-in-law, discouraged with her low-paying five-and-dime-store job, Sadie reads a story about a chorus girl who married a millionaire, she decides to join a musical-comedy company. Having befriended mission clergyman Reverend John Page, Sadie reads a Bible backstage and is surprised at the other girls' loose morals. Her "saintly" reputation among the others inspires press agent Jack Mills, looking for a new angle, to devise a routine built around Sadie, now billed as "The Saintly Show Girl."

Directed by Laurence Trimble · Written by Charles J. Wilson

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Mae Marsh Sadie Sullivan
Wallace MacDonald Dick Carrington
Mary Thurman Hazel Harris
Betty Schade Dollie Delmar
Alec B. Francis Reverend John Page
Walter Hiers Jack Mills
Philo McCullough Reggie Delmar
Wellington A. Playter O'Keefe
Lou Salter Nancy O'Keefe
Richard Carlyle
Alice Davenport

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