Public Domain Movies

Sally is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) Pre-Code film. It is the fourth all-talking, all-color feature film made, and it was photographed in the Technicolor process.

Sally Green (Marilyn Miller) is an orphan who had been abandoned as a baby at the Bowling Green telephone exchange. While living in an orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing after being taught by an old woman. In an attempt to save enough money to become a dancer, Sally began working odd jobs. While she is working as a waitress at the Times Square Cafe, a man named Blair Farrell (Alexander Gray) comes to see her regularly, though they only exchange glances through the window. Nevertheless, they fall in love. However, Sally does not know that Blair has been forced by his family into an engagement with a socialite named Marcia (Nora Lane), the daughter of a wealthy woman from Long Island named Mrs. Ten Brock (Maude Turner Gordon).

Theatrical agent Otis Hemingway Hooper (T. Roy Barnes) and his girlfriend, Rosie (Pert Kelton) are at the restaurant getting lunch when he offers Sally a chance to audition for a job, but she loses her current job and the audition opportunity when she accidentally drops food into Hooper's lap. In the kitchen, she sings "After Business Hours".

Sally takes a job setting and cleaning tables at the Elm Tree Inn, managed by Pops Stendorff (Ford Sterling). Blair visits for his bachelor party and immediately takes an interest in Sally while she is setting the table. She tells him her backstory and he sings "Look for the Silver Lining". He convinces Stendorff to have Sally dance for his customers.

Grand Duke Constantine of Czecoslovenia (Joe E. Brown) is a waiter at the inn. He was forced out of Czecoslovenia during an uprising hosted by Madame Noskerova, a prominent socialite and dancer. He makes Stendorff act like his subject because he is from Czecoslovenia. In the morning when Sally and Constantine were cleaning up, they sing "Look for the Silver Lining". Sally and Blair go for a drive and sing "If I’m Dreaming".

The next day, Sally is performing at the inn. Hooper and Rosie are in the audience ordering dinner. Sally sings "All I Want to do-do-do is Dance". Hooper recognizes Sally's talent during her performance at the inn and becomes her agent, convincing Sally to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Madame Noskerova and perform at a party hosted by Mrs. Ten Brock.

At the party, she enters and performs "Wild Rose". After she performs, she goes to the back to talk to Blair. They sing "If I'm Dreaming (Don't Wake me too Soon)". Mrs. Ten Brock overhears them and plans to announce Blair's engagement. When Pops Stendorff discovers that Sally is missing, he calls the police and storms into the party, intending to take her back to the inn for a performance. Mrs. Ten Brock kicks him out and tells Madame Noskerova to continue dancing, but announces Blair's engagement beforehand. Sally feels hurt and blows her cover, and Mrs. Ten Brock kicks her out.

Sally is devastated but later learns that she has been discovered by Florenz Ziegfeld, a guest at the party. Mr. Hooper presents her with a contract to star in Ziegfeld's next follies show on Broadway. After a successful opening night, Sally is visited in her dressing room by Pops Stendorff with flowers and a card from Blair, who has ended his engagement with Marcia. She is surprised when she discovers that Blair is also there, and he requests her forgiveness. Later, Sally and Blair emerge from a church after being married. Photographers rush them, urging them to kiss.

Cast
Marilyn Miller as Sally/Noskerova
Alexander Gray as Blair Farrell
Joe E. Brown as Grand Duke Constantine
T. Roy Barnes as Otis Hemingway Hooper
Pert Kelton as Rosie, Otis' girlfriend
Ford Sterling as 'Pops' Stendorff
Maude Turner Gordon as Mrs. Ten Brock
E. J. Ratcliffe as John Farquar
Jack Duffy as The Old Roue
Nora Lane as Marcia