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	Mildred Pierce (1945) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but can't win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
		Revealing mistakes: Mildred's house on Corvallis Street in Glendale is shown as a ranch style home, however the interior has a staircase leading to the bedrooms.
		"Mildred Pierce" is an exceptional piece of work that uses some of the finest elements of classic cinema.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0037913 (521 words)

	mildred pierce
		Mildred in all her efforts had strayed too far and she was about to be forced back into her kitchen as she had lived in before the war so comfortably.
		Mildred is not the characteristic femme fatale nor are the romantic relationships the accepted love trysts of the past.
		Mildred, because she personifies goodness in all that she does will still be able to live while Veda, the evil progeny will be denied and will fail as all evil women will.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/cograves/mildred_pierce.htm (752 words)

	Mildred Pierce and His Girl Friday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Mildred Pierce on the other hand, was made in a combination of the film noir and melodramatic styles, showing a woman's struggles for both success and love, and within the diagetic space of the film, she is constantly frustrated.
		Mildred herself is a strong woman who is able to make herself a success because of her work ethic and her intelligence, but also because of her strengths, she must be punished, and in every possible way.
		Mildred Pierce is a fable that gives a picture of what women's lives would be like if they did not let men do their wage earning, if they did not embrace their traditional role, if they did not learn their lesson and stay at home.
	www.film.queensu.ca /Critical/Morrison.html (2117 words)

	The Narrative Review: Mildred Pierce (1945)
		Mildred (Joan Crawford) goes from homemaker to divorced businesswoman all for the sake of her ungrateful daughter Veda (Ann Blyth).
		The film's velocity is not caused by Mildred collapsing days and years to tell her story to the police, but moves so quickly because as far as the film is concerned, this is the speed at which life runs.
		Mildred's one motivation in life is to serve the demands of Veda, and while this makes for a somewhat flat character (we can always guess what she's going to do next), Crawford with her haunting, yet determined eyes makes it work.
	narrativereview.blogspot.com /2005/12/mildred-pierce-1945.html (625 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Mildred Pierce
		Mildred is the mostly good side of the Mom in Mom-ism, that later theoretical woman described by sociologists as the maternal force run wild.
		Although the bulk of Mildred's testimony plays in sunny Glendale and Burbank, dark shadows are her natural habitat, and the presumption of her guilt, trying to clear her innocent first husband (Bruce Bennett) of the killing of her second, puts a fated pallor over the domestic content of the flashback.
		As Mildred's fortunes improve, there's the nagging feeling that her ambition itself is some kind of original sin, American style, and that she'll be brought low for the crime of wanting to rise.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s706pierce.html (2573 words)

	Mildred Pierce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Mildred is on her way to becoming a financially independent woman, who must raise two daughters without a husband.
		Mildred tells us that she was "born in the kitchen and lived there all my life," a statement that utters true for women far and wide....
		Mildred is able to represent the fears, terrors, sacrifices and manipulation that women face throughout their lives, often from those whom they love the most: their husbands and their children.
	www.elfers-mabli.com /film/pierce.html (1932 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mildred Pierce: Books: James M. Cain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness.
		When she becomes a single mother, Mildred is ashamed to have to take on a job as a waitress to keep her children in the relatively wealthy lifestyle to which they are accustomed.
		Mildred Pierce is one of those 'tough as nails, heart of gold' mothers who should an inspiration to all women.
	www.amazon.ca /Mildred-Pierce-James-M-Cain/dp/0679723218 (1493 words)

	Foster on Film - Mildred Pierce
		Mildred, on a waitress' salary (with some added income from homemade pies) picks up Lottie (Butterfly McQueen) to perform whatever random task is needed for the remainder of the film.
		The movie then follows the trials and tribulations of Mildred as terribly unlikely events occur and she interacts with extremely funny characters, except they aren't suppose to be funny.
		Mildred Pierce is a film to watch and enjoy with a group of friends and a big bowl of popcorn.
	www.fosteronfilm.com /important/mildred.htm (1391 words)

	Review: Mildred Pierce (1945)
		Mildred wants her and her daughters to be a family again, and she sacrifices her dignity to make that happen.
		Mildred is now torn between the right thing to do and rescuing her daughter.
		Her return with Mildred Pierce is a great testament to her staying power in an industry that operates like a revolving door - out with the old and in with the new.
	www.midnightpalace.com /review-mildredpierce.htm (1331 words)

	Mildred Pierce Summary
		Mildred Pierce tries to create a life for herself and her two daughters apart from her unfaithful husband.
		And though Pierce appears to have control of the men in her life—marrying Beragon for his name only and verbally dominating her accountant—she is duped by her accountant and new husband Beragon when they sell her business out from under her.
		Pierce loses both her daughters, her business, and her new husband, but she is given a chance at redemption: she can return to her original husband, the original domestic purpose for her life.
	www.bookrags.com /Mildred_Pierce (755 words)

	MILDRED PIERCE - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Mildred's restaurant chain makes her a millionaire, but what she learns from the whole experience is that she should have stayed married to her first husband and found happiness baking pies and raising children.
		Mildred Pierce is sharp enough to observe that Mildred made Veda the way she is. She had to have created a spoiled brat with an insatiable appetite for luxury in order to always come up short and always have her inadequacy--her inescapable past as poor white trash--thrown back in her face.
		In Mildred Pierce, she is competing against the gigolo for the affections of her daughter.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/mildredpierce.htm (2387 words)

	Mildred Pierce
		Consequently, Mildred Pierce can be viewed as a threatening admonition to women of the time: if you don’t stay within the safe confines of traditional home life, you’ll be cast out from society and forced to make it on your own.
		This can be interpreted as a reaction to the social environment of the time, in which women were beginning to find fulfillment outside the confines of their patriarchal home lives, and thus threatening the comfortable status of men as the collective breadwinners of society.
		Mildred’s first attempt to unite her two desires is to explore life outside the home by baking for her neighbors, hoping to earn money to pay for Veda’s dress.
	filebox.vt.edu /users/jworley/mildred.htm (515 words)

	Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain
		A knack for pie-making and some good business sense eventually allow Mildred to achieve some success: she opens her own business, moving with the times in a way Bert can't (taking advantage of the opportunities that present themselves along the way, such as the end of Prohibition, while Bert is stuck in the past).
		Mildred's rise and stumbles are closely chronicled: there's triumph over adversity and personal tragedy (dear little Ray, for example, goes opportunely by the wayside -- at the best melodramatic moment, too -- disposed of likely only that Mildred can feel that "guilty, leaping joy" that it was Ray, not Veda).
		Mildred's relationships with men, and the sacrifices she makes in order to get ahead, are quite well done; so are some of the scenes of her adjusting to new situations -- whether taking up work as a waitress or dealing with a new (or old) man in her life.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/cainjm/mpierce.htm (1089 words)

	My love affair with Mildred Pierce. - By Laura Lippman - Slate Magazine
		Mildred, a "grass widow" abandoned in the early years of the Depression, will do anything for her pre-teen children, Veda and Rae.
		Veda, the older one, has delusions of grandeur, which Mildred encourages: "Mildred doted on her, for her looks, her promise of talent, and her snobbery, which hinted at things superior to her own commonplace nature." Mildred, in fact, is so desperate for Veda's approval that she'll lie to get it.
		Mildred's done well for herself, evolving from mere waitress to the owner of a chain of restaurants, but overreaches by trying to give these two sycophants everything they want.
	www.slate.com /id/2142305 (1155 words)

	Mildred Pierce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mildred Pierce is a novel (1941) by James M. Cain.
		Set in Los Angeles in the 1930s, Mildred Pierce is the story of a middle-class, single mother's attempt to maintain her and her family's social position during the Great Depression.
		Veda happily enjoys Mildred's new financial success but increasingly turns ungrateful, demanding more and more from her hard-working mother and letting her contempt for people who must work for a living be known.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mildred_Pierce (665 words)

	Mildred Pierce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The story is then related in flash-back to the police by Mildred, who relates how she has given up everything for her daughter, including her first husband Bert Pierce, who leaves her in a dispute over the girl.
		Unfortunately, the parental pull is too strong, and Mildred determines to get Veda back in her life by marrying Monte, knowing that she'll have to support him.
		Also blessed with stunning cinematography by Ernest Haller, Mildred Pierce is a chance to see a star at the height of her powers.
	www.classicsondvd.com /mildredpierce.htm (541 words)

	Mildred Pierce Movie Online Review Cast Reviews Film Soundtrack DVD Video
		Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection.
		Mildred Pierce goes into detail to share how her husband was laid-off, how and why she spoiled her daughters, and her husbands philandering.
		Mildred Pierce, as a film, employs a brilliant adapted narrative that encourages the audience to contemplate the actions of the main character.
	rentmovie.com /mildred-pierce-movie-review.html (1437 words)

	Amazon.com: Mildred Pierce (Keepcase): DVD: Joan Crawford,Jack Carson,Zachary Scott,Eve Arden,Ann Blyth,Bruce ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Mildred is virtuous, tries to do the right thing, and profits from a chain of restraurants she managed to enterprise from waitress tips, hard work, and home baked pies.
		Mildred is a self-made women who will lay down her own life for her girls, especially her oldest; they have a special bond.
		Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce Beragon, Zachary Scott as Monte Beragon, Eve Arden as Ida Corwin, Ann Blyth as Veda Pierce Forrester, Bruce Bennett as Albert ('Bert') Pierce, Lee Patrick as Mrs.
	www.amazon.com /Mildred-Pierce-Keepcase-Joan-Crawford/dp/B0008ENIAC (2323 words)

	2blowhards.com: "Mildred Pierce"
		Mildred may be a domineering tyrant, but she's also an emotional masochist, if in a way that suits her own purposes; she uses her hurt and her feelings of humiliation to goad herself on to ever higher levels of achievement.
		Mildred -- what with her ambition, and her sensitivity to social slights -- is more comfortable around strivers than she is among people who have made it.
		Plus, "Mildred Pierce" is simply a gas to read: 300 pages that flew by, the twists, turns, and developments all making me gasp and laugh and want to turn the pages even faster.
	www.2blowhards.com /archives/2004/08/mildred_pierce.html (3959 words)

	Mildred Pierce (1945)
		Mildred Pierce (1945) is a classic, post-war film noir mixed with typical soap-operish elements of the woman's melodramatic picture or "weeper," including a strand of a typical murder mystery often told by flashback.
		In the Main Office of the Criminal Division (Room 220), Mildred identifies herself as "Mildred Pierce Beragon." She is ushered into an anteroom where she is told to sit next to a detective's desk and remain silent.
		Peterson explains the undeniable facts of the case: the gun that committed the murder belonged to Pierce, and he didn't deny killing Beragon - in fact he thought it was a "good idea." Mildred doesn't believe that her "gentle and kind" husband (whom she divorced four years earlier) would commit such a crime.
	www.filmsite.org /mild.html (2957 words)

	Trader Daily § Mildred Pierce
		It is then that Mildred realizes that she fears her daughter's judgment, "her snobbery, her contempt, her unbreakable spirit." She resolves to open a restaurant, to be a waitress no more.
		On the eve of the opening of Mildred's restaurant, she spends the weekend with a society swell and becomes his lover.
		Mildred Pierce is twice as long as Postman and Double Indemnity -- and, say I, twice as satisfying.
	www.traderdaily.com /column1/3386.html (781 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mildred Pierce: DVD: Michael Curtiz,Betty Alexander,Ramsay Ames,George Anderson,Eve Arden,Lynne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Adding to Mildred's troubles is the fact that oldest daughter Vida(played by dewy-eyed young beauty Ann Blyth) has become an insufferable snob somewhere along the line, in spite of her middle-class upbringing.
		Mildred worships Vida, in spie of the fact that Vida is moody, verbally abusive, and impossible to please.Vida wants to be "rich", but when Mildred makes lots of money, it still doesn't suit Vida because her mother worked (ew, yuck) for it.
		Mildred's house on Corvallis Street in Glendale is shown as a ranch style home, however the interior has a staircase leading to the bedrooms.
	www.amazon.ca /Mildred-Pierce-Michael-Curtiz/dp/B0008ENIAC (1527 words)

	mildred pierce zine
		This Saturday April 28th, I John Bylander (but not my co-editor Megan Milks, who has to work or something) will be tabling at the Richmond Zine Fest with copies of Mildred Pierce 1 and 2 and some other zines from people in Charlottesville and perhaps other environs.
		Anyway, Mildred Pierce issue 3 is on its way.
		Mildred Pierce is available in all these here places.
	mildredpierce.wordpress.com (1182 words)

	Complete summary of Mildred Pierce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Veda suggests Mildred marry Wally because she wants to move to a nicer house but Mildred is appalled.
		Mildred's restaurant is a big success and she starts a chain to support Veda's and Monte's ever-expensive tastes.
		Mildred gives Monte a share of her business in exchange for marrying him and Veda returns to her new home.
	www.amasci.com /~noir/ftitles/mildred/sum2.shtml (482 words)

	Mildred Pierce
		Mildred's newfound munificence, plus those lips, eyes, and brows, entice a lot of men toward her, but she continues only to have eyes for Veda.
		Pierce (Bruce Bennett) during all of this; we are never within a sling's shot of knowing whether this guy still loves Mildred or not, but it's not too huge of a problem, since the film cares even less than we do.
		Mildred Pierce is the sort of movie where a character pulls a revolver out of a desk not because they have reason to feel fury, but because some exigency in the frame story requires that someone in flashback bring a gun to the specified location.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /mildred.html (1047 words)

	Mildred Pierce (1945)
		In the opening sequence, you see a man get shot in a beach house by an unknown person, and his last gasp as he falls to the ground is, “Mildred...” Mildred is trucked into the police station under suspicion, as the dead man is her second husband Monte (Zachary Scott).
		Mildred Pierce has lots of snappy dialogue, especially the scenes of Veda verbally abusing her mother.
		Mildred just straightens her back, squares those shoulder pads, and forgives poor Veda, only to be stabbed in the back again and again.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/mildred_pierce.htm (308 words)

	Joan Crawford Films @ Classic Movie Favorites - Mildred Pierce
		Immediately we see that the marriage between Mildred and her husband, Bert Pierce, played by Bruce Bennett, is unhappy and she they immediately separate.
		Mildred's loneliness causes her to give all her devotion and love to her two girls.
		After her separation, Mildred becomes a waitress in order to continue spoiling the girls with piano and dance lessons and beautiful clothes.
	classicmoviefavorites.com /crawford/mildred.html (426 words)

	Mildred Pierce (1945) - Review - Piddleville
		Based on a James M. Cain novel, Mildred Pierce is film noir with healthy portions of soap opera.
		Mildred (Crawford) is a wife and mother who is overly, and unhealthily, devoted to her eldest daughter Veda (Ann Blyth).
		It's a case where a film succeeds or fails depending on a single actor's performance and in Mildred Pierce is succeeds with flying colours.
	www.piddleville.com /DigitalMovies/Review198_MildredPierce.htm (431 words)

	EUFS: Mildred Pierce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Instead of the customary male fall-guy it is Mildred (Crawford) who finds herself ensnared in the noir world by the mysterious murder of her playboy husband Monte (Zachary Scott).
		Mildred is a housewife who secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda.
		It is Mildred's success that precipitates the rupture of the nuclear family (she divorces her intolerant first husband) and the eventual murder of her second.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/mildred_pierce.html (200 words)

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