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.

Genre : CrimeDrama

Runtime : 111 mins

Release Date : 1945-10-20

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Veda, does a new house mean so much to you that you would trade me for it? Mildred Pierce is directed by Michael Curtiz and adapted from the James M. Cain novel by Ranald MacDougall, William Faulkner and Catherine Turney. It stars Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Bruce Benn...

Saw this recently on the big screen at the BFI in London. Joan Crawford is simply stunning as a drab housewife, deserted by her useless husband, who starts off working in a restaurant kitchen as she strives for success and to be able to give her spoilt daughter the best that money can buy. Ann Blyt...

Cast

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

(Mildred Pierce)

Jack Carson

Jack Carson

(Wally Fay)

Zachary Scott

Zachary Scott

(Monte Beragon)

Eve Arden

Eve Arden

(Ida Corwin)

Ann Blyth

Ann Blyth

(Veda Pierce Forrester)

Bruce Bennett

Bruce Bennett

(Albert 'Bert' Pierce)

Lee Patrick

Lee Patrick

(Maggie Biederhof)

Moroni Olsen

Moroni Olsen

(Inspector Peterson)

Veda Ann Borg

Veda Ann Borg

(Miriam Ellis)

Jo Ann Marlowe

Jo Ann Marlowe

(Kay Pierce)

Butterfly McQueen

Butterfly McQueen

(Lottie (uncredited))

Bill Alcorn

(Soldier (uncredited))

Betty Alexander

Betty Alexander

(Party Guest (uncredited))

Ramsay Ames

Ramsay Ames

(Party Guest (uncredited))

George Anderson

(Peterson's Assistant (uncredited))

Robert Arthur

Robert Arthur

(High School Boy (uncredited))

Lynn Baggett

Lynn Baggett

(Waitress (uncredited))

Leah Baird

Leah Baird

(Police Matron (uncredited))

Dorothy Barrett

(Dorothy (uncredited))

Barbara Brown

Barbara Brown

(Mrs. Forrester (uncredited))

Claire Carleton

Claire Carleton

(Thieving Waitress (uncredited))

Doria Caron

(Waitress (uncredited))

Wheaton Chambers

Wheaton Chambers

(Personnel Man (uncredited))

Wallis Clark

Wallis Clark

(Wally's Lawyer (uncredited))

Chester Clute

Chester Clute

(Mr. Jones (uncredited))

John Compton

John Compton

(Theodore 'Ted' Ellison Forrester (uncredited))

Joyce Compton

Joyce Compton

(Waitress (uncredited))

Clancy Cooper

Clancy Cooper

(Policeman (uncredited))

David Cota

(Pancho (uncredited))

Tom Dillon

Tom Dillon

(Policeman (uncredited))

James Flavin

James Flavin

(Detective (uncredited))

Bess Flowers

Bess Flowers

(Restaurant Patron (uncredited))

Angela Greene

Angela Greene

(Party Guest (uncredited))

Dorothy Hack

(Little Girl (uncredited))

Arthur Stuart Hull

Arthur Stuart Hull

(First Night Diner With Cane (uncredited))

Charles Jordan

Charles Jordan

(Policeman (uncredited))

Marjorie Kane

Marjorie Kane

(Waitress (uncredited))

Fred Kelsey

Fred Kelsey

(Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited))

Richard Kipling

(Personnel Man (uncredited))

Manart Kippen

(Dr. Gale (uncredited))

Marion Lessing

Marion Lessing

(Waitress (uncredited))

Jimmy Lono

(Monte's Houseboy (uncredited))

Jean Lorraine

(Woman (uncredited))

George Meader

George Meader

(Man (uncredited))

Harold Miller

Harold Miller

(Man (uncredited))

Jack Mower

Jack Mower

(Jack the Mailman (uncredited))

Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

(First Night Diner (uncredited))

Garry Owen

Garry Owen

(Policeman on Pier (uncredited))

Paul Panzer

Paul Panzer

(Waiter (uncredited))

Larry Rio

(Reporter (uncredited))

William Ruhl

(Personnel Man (uncredited))

Jeffrey Sayre

Jeffrey Sayre

(Diner Customer (uncredited))

Mary Servoss

Mary Servoss

(Nurse (uncredited))

George Tobias

George Tobias

(Mr. Chris (uncredited))

Charles Trowbridge

Charles Trowbridge

(Mrs. Forrester's Lawyer (uncredited))

Johnny Walsh

(Delivery Man (uncredited))

Joan Winfield

Joan Winfield

(Piano Teacher (uncredited))

John Christian

(Singing Teacher (uncredited))

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