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The kind of woman most men want - BUT SHOULDN'T HAVE!
After her unfaithful husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful. However winning the approval of her spoiled daughter proves a greater challenge.
Mildred Pierce
1945 Directed by Michael Curtiz
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Joan Crawford Jack Carson Zachary Scott Eve Arden Ann Blyth Bruce Bennett Lee Patrick Moroni Olsen Veda Ann Borg Jo Ann Marlowe Butterfly McQueen Bill Alcorn Betty Alexander Ramsay Ames George Anderson Robert Arthur Lynn Baggett Leah Baird Dorothy Barrett Barbara Brown Claire Carleton Doria Caron Wheaton Chambers Wallis Clark Chester Clute John Compton Joyce Compton Clancy Cooper David Cota Show All…
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Ömre bedel kadin, El suplicio de una madre, Thyella se mitriki kardia, En amerikansk kvinna
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FIRST OF ALL, how in the world could a sweet woman like Mildred Pierce raise the demon that is Veda???
Secondly, I love feminism in early films and the portrayal of women who do shit on their own without the help of men, providing for themselves and their family. And on a personal note, I love and appreciate mothers who make sacrifices every day for their kids-- there are millions of them whose sacrifices go unnoticed.
This film is cruel in too many ways, but I loved every second of it.
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The Criterion Challenge 2021 #29 | Oscar Winners
Mildred Pierce is the struggle of a woman who gives so much for her daughter only to receive hatred in return.
Mildred Pierce has been through it all: money trouble, a separation from her husband, the impossibility to provide for her children, the death of her youngest daughter, and like a phoenix, she has risen from the ashes to build an empire. She starts out small, looking for a job and taking up waitressing. Before long, she learns the craft and opens her own successful restaurant chain. Everyone loves her; even her ex can’t hold a grudge for too long. But there is one person she can’t ever seem to satisfy: her…
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Joan Crawford dominates as the industrious entrepreneur Mildred Pierce, whose indefatigable quest to build a better life for her daughter, Veda, ensnares her in a tangled thicket of domestic and professional calamity. Though the pitch of the performances and some plot points in Michael Curtiz’s crime drama lean into melodrama, Mildred’s twisted history is dense with duplicity, intrigue, shady business, and jumbled love affairs, shading her rags-to-riches crawl to the top with a noirish veil.
Crawford is the undeniable draw with her raw magnetism molded into a dynamic but refined performance, but Jack Carson gives a commensurate turn and provides much in the way of regressive humor as her rapacious business partner Wally Fay. While Anne Blyth is stunning in…
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Mildred Pierce is about… well, it’s in the title. It’s about her ambition, feminism and determination, done in a way that is both melodramatic and thrilling. It opens with a brief murder mystery but eventually turns into a different type of “here’s-how-it-happened” story, circumventing Mildred’s story as a mother and her daughter’s story as a daughter. And with Joan Crawford giving THAT good a performance, there’s no way this movie could do any wrong.
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"Aren't the pies bad enough? Did you have to degrade us?"
Born in Hungary on Christmas Eve of 1886, Michael Curtiz (formerly Manó Kaminer) worked extensively in the Hungarian film industry until it was nationalized by the ascendent communist government following the conclusion of WWI. The already seasoned director then emigrated first to Germany for nearly a decade, before readily succumbing to the siren call of Hollywood in 1926—courtesy of a visit from industry tycoon Harry Warner. An efficient if dictatorial craftsman, Curtiz directed dozens of Hollywood films (mostly for Warner Bros.); I'd argue he is nonetheless predominantly remembered as the director of the fabled Casablanca—the enduring smash that felt famously ordinary to most of its participants during production.
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