Mildred Pierce

Michael Curtiz · 1945 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A man is shot in a Malibu beach house, and Mildred Pierce is brought to a police station to account for herself, starting with the marriage she walked out of and the waitress job she took to keep her daughters in music lessons. Her restaurants multiply, and so does what her elder daughter Veda expects to be handed. Warners bolted a murder investigation onto Cain's story for the Code, and the frame turned melodrama into noir.

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