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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.
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
March 6, 1886 in New York City, New York, USA
May 10, 1923 in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
25 August 1907, Michigan, USA
19 May 1906, Tacoma, Washington, USA
October 23, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
30 April 1908, Mill Valley, California, USA
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
June 21, 1923 in Lynchburg, Tennessee, USA
April 11, 1881 in New York City, New York, USA
30 March 1919, New York City, New York, USA
August 07, 2006
A hearty genre pic fraught with tense social/sexual anxieties.
March 25, 2006
Joan Crawford is playing a most troubled lady, and giving a sincere and generally effective characterization of same.
October 17, 2007
A class feature, showmanly produced by Jerry Wald and tellingly directed by Michael Curtiz.
October 17, 2007
An undisputed classic.
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.
February 28, 2017
The tragedy of Mildred Pierce is an essential film noir.
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.
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.
October 17, 2007
The archetypal Joan Crawford movie.
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 31, 2012
The production, mainly because of Michael Curtiz's direction, is unimaginative and badly hoked-up.
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...