About
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Theatrical
Oct 20, 1945
Box Office
$5.6M
Budget
$1.5M
Return
3.9x
DVD / Blu-ray
Feb 4, 2003
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Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Keywords
husband wife relationship
infidelity
restaurant
snob
business woman
daughter
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
shocking
ungrateful child
zealous
mother daughter relationship
introspective
bold
complicated
melodramatic
tragic
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Cast
Full credits →J
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
J
Jack Carson
Wally Fay
Z
Zachary Scott
Monte Beragon
E
Eve Arden
Ida Corwin
A
Ann Blyth
Veda Pierce Forrester
B
Bruce Bennett
Albert 'Bert' Pierce
L
Lee Patrick
Maggie Biederhof
M
Moroni Olsen
Inspector Peterson
V
Veda Ann Borg
Miriam Ellis
J
Jo Ann Marlowe
Kay Pierce
B
Butterfly McQueen
Lottie (uncredited)
B
Bill Alcorn
Soldier (uncredited)
B
Betty Alexander
Party Guest (uncredited)
R
Ramsay Ames
Party Guest (uncredited)
G
George Anderson
Peterson's Assistant (uncredited)
R
Robert Arthur
High School Boy (uncredited)
L
Lynn Baggett
Waitress (uncredited)
L
Leah Baird
Police Matron (uncredited)
D
Dorothy Barrett
Dorothy (uncredited)
B
Barbara Brown
Mrs. Forrester (uncredited)
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The kind of Woman most men want - but shouldn't have!
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A Secret Worth Keeping: Mildred's Plea
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Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!
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