Kevin Costner's Sexy Sadie Goes Semi-Topless

 October 30, 2025

   I must say I had forgotten how Kevin Costner treated the Kaloma photo, but I remembered distinctly that both films, Tombstone, 1993, and Wyatt Earp, 1994, dealt with the racy, so-called Kaloma image as being "Mrs. Wyatt Earp."

Joanna Going as Sadie Marcus in Wyatt Earp

   So, I rented Wyatt Earp (Amazon, $5.95) and fast forwarded to a Tombstone saloon scene where the Sheriff of Cochise County Johnny Behan (Mark Harmon) is holding court and he pulls out a carte de visit and flashes it around to the assembled bar flies, just as Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner) walks in. Behan gleefully shows the scandalous photo of his live-in girlfriend to the "Kansas Law Dog."

Sexy Sadie (Joanna Going)

   Wyatt says with disgust, "You're a fool, Behan," and turns on his heel and walks out.

   The irony to me is, Tombstone is often labled as the more edgy version of the story, while the Costner version gets the rap of being a bit stodgy. But on the subject of Josephine "Sadie" Marcus's scandalous photo— Tombstone's Dana Delany as Sadie, is covered up, while Costner and the director, Lawrence Kasdan, went for semi-topless! Yikes.

   And, it must be noted, neither one is remotely true. The Kaloma photo is not Sadie and was added to the story to sell books and that it did.

"You can't judge a book by its topless cover."

—Old Bogus Author Saying