Mildred Pierce (1945)

NR10/20/1945Crime, Drama1h 51m
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Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!

Overview

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Joan Crawford

    Mildred Pierce

  2. Cast 1

    Jack Carson

    Wally Fay

  3. Cast 1

    Zachary Scott

    Monte Beragon

  4. Cast 1

    Eve Arden

    Ida Corwin

  5. Cast 1

    Ann Blyth

    Veda Pierce Forrester

  6. Cast 1

    Bruce Bennett

    Albert 'Bert' Pierce

  7. Cast 1

    Lee Patrick

    Maggie Biederhof

  8. Cast 1

    Moroni Olsen

    Inspector Peterson

  9. Cast 1

    Veda Ann Borg

    Miriam Ellis

Saw this recently on the big screen at the BFI in London. Joan Crawford is simply stunning as a drab housewife, deserted by her useless husband, who starts off working in a restaurant kitchen as she strives for success and to be able to give her spoilt daughter the best that money can buy. Ann Blyth is wonderfully horrid as the daughter and Zachary Scott completes the trio of principals as the parasitical second husband. Mike Curtiz directs this superbly - particularly as the film heads to it's climax; the screenplay and the score also lend copiously to the overall effect of this deservedly Os...