Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Jack Carson
Wally Fay
Zachary Scott
Monte Beragon
Eve Arden
Ida Corwin
Ann Blyth
Veda Pierce Forrester
Bruce Bennett
Albert 'Bert' Pierce
Lee Patrick
Maggie Biederhof
Moroni Olsen
Inspector Peterson
Veda Ann Borg
Miriam Ellis
Jo Ann Marlowe
Kay Pierce
Butterfly McQueen
Lottie (uncredited)
Bill Alcorn
Soldier (uncredited)
Betty Alexander
Party Guest (uncredited)
Ramsay Ames
Party Guest (uncredited)George Anderson
Peterson's Assistant (uncredited)
Robert Arthur
High School Boy (uncredited)
Lynn Baggett
Waitress (uncredited)
Leah Baird
Police Matron (uncredited)Dorothy Barrett
Dorothy (uncredited)
Barbara Brown
Mrs. Forrester (uncredited)
Claire Carleton
Thieving Waitress (uncredited)Doria Caron
Waitress (uncredited)
Wheaton Chambers
Personnel Man (uncredited)
Wallis Clark
Wally's Lawyer (uncredited)
Chester Clute
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
John Compton
Theodore 'Ted' Ellison Forrester (uncredited)
Joyce Compton
Waitress (uncredited)
Clancy Cooper
Policeman (uncredited)David Cota
Pancho (uncredited)
Tom Dillon
Policeman (uncredited)
James Flavin
Detective (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Angela Greene
Party Guest (uncredited)Dorothy Hack
Little Girl (uncredited)
Arthur Stuart Hull
First Night Diner With Cane (uncredited)
Charles Jordan
Policeman (uncredited)
Marjorie Kane
Waitress (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited)Richard Kipling
Personnel Man (uncredited)Manart Kippen
Dr. Gale (uncredited)
Marion Lessing
Waitress (uncredited)Jimmy Lono
Monte's Houseboy (uncredited)Jean Lorraine
Woman (uncredited)
George Meader
Man (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Man (uncredited)
Jack Mower
Jack the Mailman (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
First Night Diner (uncredited)
Garry Owen
Policeman on Pier (uncredited)
Paul Panzer
Waiter (uncredited)Larry Rio
Reporter (uncredited)William Ruhl
Personnel Man (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Diner Customer (uncredited)
Mary Servoss
Nurse (uncredited)
George Tobias
Mr. Chris (uncredited)
Charles Trowbridge
Mrs. Forrester's Lawyer (uncredited)Johnny Walsh
Delivery Man (uncredited)
Joan Winfield
Piano Teacher (uncredited)John Christian
Singing Teacher (uncredited)
Released
en
$1,453,000.00
$5,638,000.00
- #daughter
- #infidelity
- #husband wife relationship
- #restaurant
- #snob
- #business woman
- #promise
- #spoiled child
- #film noir
- #murder
- #black and white
- #beach house
- #frame up
- #ex-husband ex-wife relationship
- #told in flashback
- #nightclub singer
- #mother daughter estrangement
- #business partner
- #ungrateful child
- #mother daughter relationship
Reviews
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 par
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