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Mildred Pierce
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Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American black-and-white drama and film noir directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Ann Blyth, with a screenplay by Ranald MacDougall, James M. Cain, William Faulkner, and Albert Maltz. Produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment, it was filmed in Malibu and set in Los Angeles. The production had a budget of $1,453,000 and generated $5,638,000 in revenue.
The movie has a runtime of 111 minutes and is written in English. It received an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. Critics and audiences have rated the film highly, with an IMDb score of 7.9 based on 31,468 votes and a Metascore of 88. The film is distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix, and HBO Max.
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Film · TMDB
7.6A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Cast
- Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce
- Jack Carson as Wally Fay
- Zachary Scott as Monte Beragon
- Eve Arden as Ida Corwin
- Ann Blyth as Veda Pierce Forrester
- Bruce Bennett as Albert 'Bert' Pierce
Themes
- daughter
- infidelity
- husband wife relationship
- restaurant
- snob
- business woman
- promise
- spoiled child
- film noir
- murder
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
30,223 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
88/100
- Year
- 1945
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 7 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Curtiz
- Screenplay by
- Ranald MacDougall
- Based on
- Mildred Pierce , 1941 novel, by James M. Cain
- Produced by
- Jerry Wald
- Starring
- Joan Crawford Jack Carson Zachary Scott Eve Arden Ann Blyth Bruce Bennett
- Cinematography
- Ernest Haller
- Edited by
- David Weisbart
- Music by
- Max Steiner
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release dates
- September 28, 1945 ( 1945-09-28 ) (New York City) October 20, 1945 ( 1945-10-20 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 111 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.4 million
- Box office
- $5.6 million ( $ 101 million in Consumer Price Index deflator</span>"}]]}'>2025 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- film noir
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Mildred Pierce
- Director
- Michael Curtiz
- Screenwriter
- William Faulkner
- Cast member
- Fred Kelsey
- Composer
- Max Steiner
- Producer
- Jerry Wald
- Cinematographer
- Ernest Haller
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Malibu
- Duration
- 111
- FilmAffinity ID
- 910755
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce trailer.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mildred Pierce (film)
- publication date
- 1945-10-20
- film editor
- David Weisbart
- title
- Mildred Pierce
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- distributed by
- HBO Max
- color
- black-and-white
- production designer
- Anton Grot
- executive producer
- Jack Warner
- after a work by
- James M. Cain
- different from
- Mildred Pierce
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 88%
- capital cost
- 1400000
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Encyclopedic overview
Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American melodrama film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, and Zachary Scott, and featuring Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Bruce Bennett. Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, this was Crawford's first starring role for Warner Bros. Pictures after leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. In 1996, Mildred Pierce was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.
Plot
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