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.
22 November 1901, New York City, New York, USA
10 January 1882, Veracruz, Mexico
11 January 1915, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
June 2, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
November 7, 1902 in Missouri, USA
20 August 1884, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
21 February 1914, Austin, Texas, USA
June 28, 1906 in Greece
August 21, 1879 in New York City, New York, USA
September 24, 1918 in Melbourne, Australia
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...
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.
October 17, 2007
An undisputed classic.
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.
March 25, 2006
Joan Crawford is playing a most troubled lady, and giving a sincere and generally effective characterization of same.
October 17, 2007
A class feature, showmanly produced by Jerry Wald and tellingly directed by Michael Curtiz.
February 28, 2017
The tragedy of Mildred Pierce is an essential film noir.
August 07, 2006
A hearty genre pic fraught with tense social/sexual anxieties.
August 31, 2012
The production, mainly because of Michael Curtiz's direction, is unimaginative and badly hoked-up.
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.
