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Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American melodrama/film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, and Zachary Scott, also featuring Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Bruce Bennett.
Mildred Pierce is a psychological drama by James M. Cain published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1941. [1] A story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression, Mildred Pierce follows the trajectory of a lower-middle class divorcee with two children in her tragic struggle to achieve financial and personal success. [2]
Mildred Pierce: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden. A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Michael Curtiz
- 1945-10-20
Following several gunshots, Monte Beragon (Zachary Scott) collapses in the living room of a beach house. He whispers the name "Mildred," and dies. His wife, Mildred Pierce-Beragon (Joan Crawford), soon arrives at the police station and acts suspiciously nervous, though denies killing her husband.
Jo Ann Marlowe is funny as Mildred's little monster tomboy daughter Kay Pierce. Her fate is fitting as another blow to Mildred's heart. Butterfly McQueen is hysterical as the high pitched maid...
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- Joan Crawford
- Michael Curtiz
- Drama
Portraits of family dysfunction don’t get much more brutal than Michael Curtiz’s 1945 Mildred Pierce, which features Joan Crawford in an Oscar-winning performance that revived her career. Adapted from James M. Cain’s psychological novel, the fi…
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Mildred Pierce (1945) is a classic, post-war film noir mixed with typical soap-operish elements of the woman's melodramatic picture or "weeper," including a strand of a typical murder mystery often told by flashback.
