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.
15 December 1935
September 24, 1918 in Melbourne, Australia
30 March 1919, New York City, New York, USA
August 21, 1879 in New York City, New York, USA
March 23, 1893 in New York
27 January 1907, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
23 July 1906, Boise, Idaho, USA
16 June 1893, San Bernardino, California, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
March 6, 1886 in New York City, New York, USA
27 June 1889, Ogden, Utah, USA
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
7 November 1895, Strokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland
20 March 1892, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
April 11, 1881 in New York City, New York, USA
18 February 1891, Orange, New Jersey, USA
28 April 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
October 13, 1887 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
November 7, 1902 in Missouri, USA
18 February 1902, Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA
20 March 1908, New York, USA
30 April 1908, Mill Valley, California, USA
20 August 1884, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
22 November 1901, New York City, New York, USA
16 August 1928, Mount Kisco, New York, USA
January 19, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA
June 2, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 October 1901, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 October 1910, Carman, Manitoba, Canada
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
An undisputed classic.
August 07, 2006
A hearty genre pic fraught with tense social/sexual anxieties.
February 28, 2017
The tragedy of Mildred Pierce is an essential film noir.
October 17, 2007
A class feature, showmanly produced by Jerry Wald and tellingly directed by Michael Curtiz.
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...
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.
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.
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.
October 17, 2007
The archetypal Joan Crawford movie.
March 25, 2006
Joan Crawford is playing a most troubled lady, and giving a sincere and generally effective characterization of same.
August 31, 2012
The production, mainly because of Michael Curtiz's direction, is unimaginative and badly hoked-up.
