What is Kiss Me Kate / Miss Sadie Thompson about?

Double Feature: Kiss Me Kate (1953)/ Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Kiss Me Kate: As divorced actors reuniting for a musical production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel get to sing some "wunderbar" Cole Porter songs, along with the great Ann Miller (“Too Darn Hot”). Miss Sadie Thompson: After she’s forced to leave Hawaii when her singing job goes kaput, hard-luck dame Sadie Thompson (Rita Hayworth) is stranded on the isle of Samoa, where she’s befriended by lovable GI hunk Aldo Ray and his soldier pals. But self-righteous gadabout Jose Ferrer, laying over with his wife on a trip, believes she is just a prostitute and takes it upon himself to make Sadie’s life a living hell until he can get her deported back to the States.

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What is Kiss Me Kate / Miss Sadie Thompson about?: Double Feature: Kiss Me Kate (1953)/ Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Kiss Me Kate: As divorced actors reuniting for a musical production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel get to sing some "wunderbar" Cole Porter songs, along with the great Ann Miller (“Too Darn Hot”). Miss Sadie Thompson: After she’s forced to leave Hawaii when her singing job goes kaput, hard-luck dame Sadie Thompson (Rita Hayworth) is stranded on the isle of Samoa, where she’s befriended by lovable GI hunk Aldo Ray and his soldier pals. But self-righteous gadabout Jose Ferrer, laying over with his wife on a trip, believes she is just a prostitute and takes it upon himself to make Sadie’s life a living hell until he can get her deported back to the States.