![]() ![]() ![]() Newly divorced housewife Mildred Pierce (Joan Crawford) wants desperately to raise her daughters in style, especially her precociously sinister Veda (Ann Blyth). A holy monster of Hollywood who wouldn't stay dead, Joan Crawford made this show a shattering return to the top, in a role she'd more or less repeat throughout the rest of her career. ![]() The desperate search for identity and property as the key to happiness, and maternal love misplaced on a grand scale, are the twin engines of this lightning-fast entertainment machine. One of the best-made Hollywood movies ever, Mildred Pierce transcends the genre of the high-powered soap opera (tinged with a definite Noir flavor) by encapsulating a number of vital American themes, some of them years before the nation knew they existed. Written by Ranald MacDougall from the novel by James M. Starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth,īruce Bennett, Lee Patrick, Moroni Olsen, Veda Ann Borg, Jo Ann Marlowe, Butterfly McQueen. ![]()
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