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Mildred Pierce
When Mildred Pierce's wealthy husband leaves her for another woman, Mildred decides to raise her two daughters on her own. Despite Mildred's financial successes in the restaurant business, her oldest daughter, Veda, resents her mother for degrading their social status. In the midst of a police investigation after the death of her second husband, Mildred must evaluate her own freedom and her complicated relationship with her daughter.
27 June 1889, Ogden, Utah, USA
7 November 1895, Strokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland
7 January 1911, Tampa, Florida, USA
November 7, 1902 in Missouri, USA
10 January 1882, Veracruz, Mexico
15 December 1935
January 19, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA
6 July 1888, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
18 February 1891, Orange, New Jersey, USA
16 August 1928, Mount Kisco, New York, USA
20 August 1884, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
June 28, 1906 in Greece
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
March 6, 1886 in New York City, New York, USA
March 23, 1893 in New York
October 23, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
25 August 1907, Michigan, USA
14 May 1906, Portland, Maine, USA
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
20 March 1892, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
28 April 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 28, 2017
The tragedy of Mildred Pierce is an essential film noir.
March 25, 2009
Joan Crawford gives one of her most iconic (Oscar-winning) performances in Michael Curtiz's quintessential film noir and woman's picture of the 1940s.
June 24, 2006
The film is a chilling demonstration of the fact that, in a patriarchal society, when a woman steps outside the home the end result may be disastrous.
August 07, 2006
A hearty genre pic fraught with tense social/sexual anxieties.
March 16, 2017
You don't think of Michael Curtiz, the great house director of Warner Bros. spectacles and prestige pictures, as one of the great noir directors but the opening twenty minutes or so is a master class in film noir directing...
October 17, 2007
An undisputed classic.
July 25, 2011
All this is good melodrama and fair entertainment, but it is much closer to the waltz-time schmalz of Kathleen Norris than to the fox-trot brass of James M. Cain.
May 20, 2013
Considered a film noir classic, it is more of a soap opera, despite the fact that the story revolves around a murder mystery. It is a story which artfully combines cynicism and sentimentality.
March 25, 2006
Joan Crawford is playing a most troubled lady, and giving a sincere and generally effective characterization of same.
October 17, 2007
The archetypal Joan Crawford movie.
August 31, 2012
The production, mainly because of Michael Curtiz's direction, is unimaginative and badly hoked-up.
October 17, 2007
A class feature, showmanly produced by Jerry Wald and tellingly directed by Michael Curtiz.