

Mildred Pierce
Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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7.6/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $5.6M
- Language
- English
- daughter
- infidelity
- husband wife relationship
- restaurant
- snob
- business woman
- promise
- spoiled child
- film noir
- murder
- black and white
- beach house
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNRNew York City, New York28 Sept 1945
- TheatricalNR20 Oct 1945
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG13 Apr 1946
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical28 Feb 1946
AustriaAT
- Theatrical1 Jan 1950
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical12 Nov 1948
FinlandFI
- Theatrical22 Nov 1946
FranceFR
- Theatrical29 Jan 1947
GermanyDE
- Theatrical24 Apr 1950
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG2 Aug 2003
ItalyIT
- Theatrical4 Dec 1947
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical6DVD, Blu ray27 Feb 2017
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/122 Dec 1946
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Mildred Pierce was released on 20 October 1945.
Audience reviews
2- J9/10
John Chard
11/26/2019
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 Bennett and Eve Arden. Music is by Max Steiner and the cinematographer is Ernest Haller. It was nominated for 6 Academy Award…
- C8/10
CinemaSerf
7/1/2022
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 Blyth is wonderfully horrid as the daughter and Zachary Scott completes the trio of principals as the parasitical second husb…
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