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	Mildred Pierce and His Girl Friday
		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 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.
		Mildred Pierce came out at a time when American men were attempting to return to the workforce, and women were being pushed back into the home.
	www.film.queensu.ca /Critical/Morrison.html

	DVD Times - Mildred Pierce
		Mildred Pierce, based on a novel by James M.Cain, who also wrote Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice is a particularly interesting example of noir, because it started out as a ‘woman’s picture’, the film that brought Joan Crawford to Warner Brothers as a counterpoint to the increasingly awkward Bette Davis.
		They inform Mildred that her ex-husband, Bert Pierce (Bennett) has been arrested for murder but Mildred isn’t at all happy with this and begins to tell the story of her life, beginning when she was a housewife in suburban LA several years before.
		Haller makes inventive use of threatening shadows and what you might call 'dumb show' effects with the characters in sillhouette and a good deal of the film is shot from a low angle to emphasise the overbearing low ceilings of Mildred's suburban prison.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4308

	David Bordwell: CV
		"Mildred Pierce and Cognitive Poetics." Invited lectures at Institute for Mass Communication, University of Bergen, Norway, 2 April 1990; Institute for Film, Television, and Mass Communication, University of Copenhagen, 4 April 1990.
		"Cognition and Comprehension: Viewing and Forgetting in Mildred Pierce." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism VI, 2 (Spring 1992): 183-198.
		Voted one of top five books on cinema published since 1980, British Film Institute poll, 2001.
	www.davidbordwell.net /cv.htm (8774 words)

	Mildred Pierce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mildred Pierce, which is set in and around Los Angeles in the 1930s, depicts the life of an American self-made businesswoman.
		Generally speaking, Mildred is more of a tycoon in the film.
		Mildred's numerous staff - both at home and at her restaurants - are represented by one (!) young and rather pretty African American housemaid (stereotyped as slightly dumb and thus comical) who also seems to be helping out at the restaurants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mildred_Pierce (8774 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 (8774 words)

	Mildred Pierce
		Finally, the flashback technique in Mildred Pierce is typical of film-noir narrative in emphasizing the fated nature of the protagonist’s life.
		Mildred Pierce earned a Best Actress award for Joan Crawford, who plays the title character, a tough, hard-working, self-sacrificing mother of a thankless, spoiled and wicked daughter, Veda, convincingly portrayed by Ann Blyth in her first substantial dramatic role.
		In terms of the noir visual motifs, the film makes abundant use of low-key lighting, diagonal lines and shadows (especially across Mildred’s face) and night-for-night shots in exterior locations, which all work to emphasize an undercurrent of pessimism, out-of-kilter emotions, and personal alienation.
	web.cocc.edu /glyons/pop/noir/reviews/mildred.htm (8774 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.
		For a brief moment in the film, it appears that Mildred has successfully rebelled against patriarchy.
		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 (8774 words)

	DVD Z1 - Test & Bonus - Mildred Pierce - Curtiz
		Le Roman de Mildred Pierce, sorte d’apogée de ce ‘genre’ à l’intérieur du studio (mais on le verra plus loin, le film sera assimilé au film noir), marque l’arrivée de Joan Crawford qui, après avoir passé dix huit ans à la MGM, débarque avec la ferme intention de (re)lancer sa carrière.
		Abandonnée par son mari, Mildred Pierce désire offrir un avenir à ses enfants.
		Apres le meurtre de son mari, Monte Beragon, Mildred Pierce est tenue de raconter son histoire à l’inspecteur Peterson qui l’interroge.
	www.dvdclassik.com /Critiques/dvd_mildrepierce.htm (8774 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Mildred Pierce
		Mildred Pierce tries to create a life for herself and her two daughters apart from her unfaithful husband.
		In addition, when Pierce confesses to the murder of Beragon to save her daughter, she takes the place of the typical male film noir protagonist who will defend the femme-fatale even to the death.
		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.
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	Mildred Pierce
		"Mildred Pierce (1945) is a classic flashback film noir mixed with typical soap-operish elements of the woman's picture or "weeper," and with"
		"Mildred Pierce is a noir melodrama that served as a comeback film for waning star Joan Crawford..."
		"Though all of its craft is accomplished, Mildred Pierce never gets deep under one's skin the way it ought to."
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/mildred_pierce (8774 words)

	James M. Cain
		Cain's novel Mildred Pierce was also filmed, and won an Oscar for Joan Crawford in her role as a career woman.
		MILDRED PIERCE, 1941 - Nainen ilman omaatuntoa - film 1945, dir.
		In the original ending to the film, MacMurray is convicted for murder and Robinson witnesses his death at a gas chamber in San Quentin.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jmcain.htm (8774 words)

	Biblio
		Robert A. Hughes; Film 874,444 Henderson Family, Margaret Pierce Parsons; Film 874,714 Item 7, Henderson Family 1600-1900.
	tnhendersons.rootsweb.com /ms-biblio.html (1848 words)

	Mildred Pierce Review
		Although the movie Mildred Pierce is considered by many to be anti-feminist, there are many aspects of the film that suggest otherwise.
		It has also been suggested that Mildred herself is the source all these problems, because when she kicks her husband out of the house and takes over all the responsibilities (that were generally accepted as being a man's), she deviates radically from the normal and expected behavior of a woman in America's 1940's.
		Although Mildred is established as a good cook who is often in the kitchen, the intention is not for the audience to perceive Mildred as a stereotypical 1940's housewife.
	filebox.vt.edu /t/tbelivea/mil.html (1848 words)

	Mildred Pierce
		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.
		Also blessed with stunning cinematography by Ernest Haller, Mildred Pierce is a chance to see a star at the height of her powers.
		The film opens with a bang (quite literally) as Monte Baragon (Zachary Scott) is viciously gunned down, with "Mildred" being his last word.
	www.classicsondvd.com /mildredpierce.htm (1848 words)

	Review of Mildred Pierce
		Based on Cain's novel, Mildred Pierce is a twisting, turning, rollercoaster ride of tawdry delight.
		The film opens with a bang as Mildred's second husband Monte is killed.
		Mildred trades her integrity and a cut of her business to marry Monte, a wastrel from old and rapidly dwindling money to whom Vida is irrationally attached.
	www.amasci.com /~noir/ftitles/mildred/rev.shtml (1848 words)

	Mildred Pierce
		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.
		The filmmakers are as blind to reality, even the half-reality of a prime-cut Hollywood melodrama, as Mildred is to her younger daughter, to her husband, or to her own needs.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/nkd4/mildred.html (1848 words)

	Amazon Shopping with Shwing! - Mildred Pierce
		Mildred (Joan Crawford) is married to Albert `Bert' Pierce (Bruce Bennet).
		Mildred is basically a good, but misunderstood person, where the men in her life are all lechers and absolutely veracious in their intent to use her.
		It was very dangerous for Mildred to branch out like this and make an independent life for herself; obviously she had no choice, but the movie does a great job of showing what a survivor she really is and how she had to use all her feminine resources to protect her family and her fortune.
	www.shwing.com /amazon/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B00007G1ZM (1848 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mildred Pierce at Epinions.com
		Mildred Pierce was made three years after Casablanca and Yankee Doodle Dandy (his other 1942 movie, also starring James Cagney, was Captains of the Clouds—can you fathom any director in Hollywood today with such a high-volume output?).
		The only thing standing between Mildred and complete and utter happiness is her scheming daughter Veda (Ann Blyth), surely one of the most hissable adolescents ever to hit the screen.
		This is a rags-to-riches story of Mildred, a lonely housewife who tries to make something of herself after her husband (played by Bruce Bennett) abandons her.
	www.epinions.com /content_35975237252 (1848 words)

	The Oscar Guy: 1945 Reviews
		"Mildred Pierce" is the story of a young mother, Mildred (Joan Crawford), whose only daughter, Veda (Ann Blyth), is so spoiled that she often forgoes her own happiness in order to make sure that her daughter gets all she wants.
		Mildred Pierce flees the beach house and runs to the waterfront.
		Mildred tries to keep what she does a secret from Veda, but when she finds the cleaning lady wearing her waitress outfit and that Veda had given it to her, Veda goes into hysterics.
	www.oscarguy.com /Reviews/45.html (1848 words)

	Mildred Pierce
		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.
		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 on her way to becoming a financially independent woman, who must raise two daughters without a husband.
	www.elfers-mabli.com /film/pierce.html (1848 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Mildred Pierce
		Mildred Pierce is one of the great films of the Hollywood Golden Age that should be on the shelf of any true film-lover's collection.
		The films represented are: Mildred Pierce, Humoresque, Possessed, Flamingo Road, The Damned Don't Cry, Goodbye My Fancy, and This Woman Is Dangerous.
		Mildred Pierce is completely exonerated and the prosecution is censured for wasting the court's time for even bringing the case to trial.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/mildredpierce.php (1848 words)

	Foster on Film - Mildred Pierce
		Mildred Pierce is a film to watch and enjoy with a group of friends and a big bowl of popcorn.
		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 film is structured around the saintliness of Mildred.
	home.comcast.net /~fosteronfilm/mildred.htm (1848 words)

	Biography for Joan Crawford
		In 1945, Joan landed the lead in Mildred Pierce (1945), a film depicting the rise of a housewife to a successful businesswoman.
		Mildred Pierce (1945) was a defining role and won an Oscar for Joan.
		She persuaded Warner Bros. to cast her in the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945), and her Oscar- winning turn as a sacrificing mother put her back on top.
	us.imdb.com /Bio?Crawford,+Joan (1848 words)

	Joan Crawford
		Her career then saw new life with Warner Brothers, and she began playing strong-willed maternal figures, such as the waitress-turned-restauratrice alienated from her daughter in "Mildred Pierce" (1945), the film for which she won the Academy Award for best actress.
		Though she was considered a has-been by the late 1950s, she made a surprising comeback in the highly successful "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962), which cast her as a physically disabled woman in conflict with her demented sister, played by old rival Bette Davis.
		Despite her successes, Joan Crawford believed that MGM was giving its meatiest roles to other actresses, and in 1942 she asked the studio to release her from her contract.
	www.famoustexans.com /joancrawford.htm (1848 words)

	Mildred Pierce on DVD - MovieWeb
		The story begins as the police interrogate Mildred Pierce, a wealthy restaurateur, after finding her second husband shot to death.
		In flashback, we see Mildred's life: her obsession with Veda, her selfish oldest daughter; her troubled first marriage, which ended in divorce; the tragic death of her younger child.
		Left with only Veda, Mildred determined to become successful in order to give her the best of everything -- and she succeeded brilliantly.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?012569571228 (1848 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article
		Ann Blyth, in the role of Veda Pierce, had previously played a few juvenile roles in innocuous fare like Babes on Swing Street (1944) before she got to sink her teeth into the plum role in Mildred Pierce.
		Based on the novel by James M. Cain, Mildred Pierce is a dark tale of thwarted desires and the American dream gone wrong.
		Joan Crawford's Oscar winning performance as Mildred Pierce (1945), determined mother of the ever-ungrateful Veda (Ann Blyth), marked Crawford's debut at Warner Brothers after a long career at MGM.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,18954,00.html (1848 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film Features Lethal lovelies attack gender bias
		(If they had children, or were past 40, it became another kind of film, Mildred Pierce stopped being a babe and became a mother.) The Bride with a swollen belly is a wonderfully incongruous image; try to imagine Crawford in Johnny Guitar, or her co-star Mercedes McCambridge heavy with child.
		Joan Crawford's Mildred Pierce with fur coat and gun, enshrined icon of parodists and female impersonators, didn't actually commit the murder.
		The incompatibilities between a woman's sexual and maternal being, or between her sleek and streamlined action persona and the contrary figure of the madonna are self-evident; it's what made Frances McDormand's Marge Gunderson, the pregnant sheriff of Fargo, such a dopey novelty.
	film.guardian.co.uk /haskell/story/0,12830,1205903,00.html (1848 words)

	BBC NEWS Entertainment Joan Crawford's rollercoaster life
		So she moved to Warner Brothers, persuading them to cast her in the 1945 film noir Mildred Pierce.
		Her role as a mother who sacrifices herself for an ungrateful daughter won her her only Oscar and gave her career a new lease of life.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3558397.stm (1848 words)

	village voice > film > Bad Education by Michael Atkinson
		Simultaneously his safest, gayest, and most Fassbinderian movie to date, Bad Education is bald noir melodrama, a Mildred Pierce for trannies, tricked up with overlapping narratives and haunted by Catholic-school seaminess.
		Quoting rather tiredly from Vertigo (among other beloved wellsprings), Almodóvar's movie is as mad for its own structural semi-transparencies, folding over each other and then wispily disappearing, as it is for cabaret camp.
		Even Talk to Her's coma-philia occurred discreetly off-screen; would the fire-brand troublemaking of Matador or Law of Desire be tolerated by today's festival market?
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0446/atkinson.php (1848 words)

	James M. Cain
		Cain's novel Mildred Pierce was also filmed, and won an Oscar for Joan Crawford in her role as a career woman.
		MILDRED PIERCE, 1941 - Nainen ilman omaatuntoa - film 1945, dir.
		In the original ending to the film, MacMurray is convicted for murder and Robinson witnesses his death at a gas chamber in San Quentin.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jmcain.htm (1848 words)

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