"Mildred Pierce"

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This 1945 film was nominated for six Academy Awards, three for acting and one each for Screenplay, Cinematography, and Best Picture. Star Joan Crawford won Best Actress. Micheal Cutiz directed her, Jack Carson, Ann Blythe, Eve Arden, and Butterfly McQueen in the story, based on a novel by James M. Cain. When the film opens Joan is an unhappy housewife with two young daughters ahe dotes on. Her cheating husband finally agrees to a divorce, and with the help of lecherous (but unsuccessful) real estate agent Jack Carson buys an old home up for sale on back taxes and turns it into a successful restaurant, the first of a chain of five. Her oldest daughter keeps demanding more and more material things and Joan struggles to accomodate her, finally marrying a rich man she doesn't love in order to keep the daughter happy. But Joan and the daughter split when it is revealed that the daughter faked a pregnancy in order to bilk the supposed father's family out of $10K. Joan rips up the check. Later she suspects that the daughter is involved with her new husband. Meanwhile the restaurant chain goes bankrupt because of Joan's spending and the husband selling his 1/3 of the business. Finally there is a murder. At the end we find out the truth. Well worth seeking out, good DVD transfer. Eve Arden has a supporting role with her customary sarcastic one liners.

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Topic - "Mildred Pierce" - rico 10:25:45 11/01/04 (2)

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