Mildred Pierce (1945)

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Genre

drama film, film noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 455 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A divorced mother works hard to support her spoiled daughter. She opens a successful restaurant chain, but her daughter's selfishness leads to tragedy.

tensemelancholicvisually starkemotionalslow-burnbleakgrittysoapynoirish

What happens

Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American melodrama film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, and Zachary Scott, and featuring Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Bruce Bennett. Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, this was Crawford's first starring role for Warner Bros. Pictures after leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. In 1996, Mildred Pierce was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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