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Mildred Pierce
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
1945 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 111 min · Crime · Drama · 11 frames
Tagline
Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!
Crew
- Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall
- Cinematography: Ernest Haller
- Edited by: David Weisbart
- Music: Max Steiner
- Produced by: Jerry Wald
Cast
- Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce
- Jack Carson as Wally Fay
- Zachary Scott as Monte Beragon
- Eve Arden as Ida Corwin
- Ann Blyth as Veda Pierce Forrester
- Bruce Bennett as Albert 'Bert' Pierce
- Lee Patrick as Maggie Biederhof
- Moroni Olsen as Inspector Peterson
- Veda Ann Borg as Miriam Ellis
- Jo Ann Marlowe as Kay Pierce
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $1,453,000
- Box office: $5,638,000
- Themes: daughter, infidelity, husband wife relationship, restaurant, snob, business woman, promise, spoiled child, film noir, murder
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