Mannequin is a 1937 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, and Alan Curtis.
Crawford plays Jessie, a young working class woman who seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Jessie Cassidy yearns to escape the squalor of her family's Lower East Side apartment.
At their wedding reception self-made shipping tycoon John L. Hennessey sees the couple and buys them a bottle of champagne.
Eddie takes Jessie to a nice apartment, then tells her that she can give up her job as a shopgirl to work in the chorus of a Broadway show, just until he gets a break.
They soon receive a cablegram from Hennessey's assistant Briggs, advising them that labor unrest necessitates their return to the United States.