A story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression, Mildred Pierce follows the trajectory of a lower-middle class divorcee with two children in her tragic struggle to achieve financial and personal success. [2]

2024年3月22日 · No, "Mildred Pierce" is not a true story. It is a work of fiction written by James M. Cain in 1941, and has been adapted into films and television miniseries. The story follows the...

Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American melodrama film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, and Zachary Scott, also 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. after leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

2015年5月2日 · Mildred Pierce, however calls for a change in 1945. It’s disapproval of honest working women calls for the change and digression of women back into the kitchen from whence she “only stepped out for a few short hours to get married”.

Fictional Inspiration: Although Mildred Pierce is not based on a true story, author James M. Cain was inspired by the real-life case of a woman named Winnie Ruth Judd, who was convicted of murder in 1931.

2011年3月22日 · It's based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, about a middle-class woman trying to survive — and feed and nurture her young daughters — during very tough times. In 1945, it was one of three Cain...

Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic elder daughter's love and respect.

Cain's novel ‘Mildred Pierce’ was eventually very successfully turned into a motion picture in the golden hands of the Hungarian-born filmmaker Michael Curtiz, one of the most prolific directors in the history of the cinema.

2024年6月21日 · Published in 1941 by Alfred A. Knopf, James M. Cain's novel Mildred Pierce is set during the Great Depression and centers around a lower-middle-class divorcee named Mildred Pierce. The narrative focuses on her relentless efforts to secure both financial stability and personal fulfillment, highlighting the social and familial challenges she faces.

Based on the bestselling James M. Cain novel, "Mildred Pierce" tells the story of a newly-divorced mother, played by Crawford, who sacrifices everything for her ungrateful daughter. Teenaged Veda is pretentious, haughty and spoiled; the opposite of her sweet, tomboy younger sister Kay.

Complete summary of Mildred Pierce. Before keeling over, gunshot victim Monte Beragon gasps the name Mildred. His wife Mildred fails to drown herself but succeeds in picking up her old friend Wally. She takes him home and slips out, leaving him trapped with Monte's dead body. Wally escapes from the house and runs straight into the cops.

2011年3月25日 · Mildred Pierce (as played by a frumpified Winslet) is most decidedly not happier than most. And why should she be?

2016年1月24日 · Published in 1941, Mildred Pierce was written by James M. Cain and is a dramatic story of a mother willing to do anything to preserve her family's social status through a divorce and the Depression, largely for the benefit of …

2019年8月8日 · “Pierce” starts with the murder of Monte Beragon, and then the rest of the film is told in flashback form while Mildred recounts her story to a police officer under questioning. The story itself is moody and melodramatic and a little bit …

2011年3月25日 · But this one, called Mildred Pierce, is more intimate and, in the end, more emotional and more haunting. It’s based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, about a middle-class woman trying to survive — and feed and nurture her …

2011年4月11日 · Unfolding over a decade, “Mildred Pierce” is the story of one woman, of course, but also of the subtle class system in Depression-era America just as it was beginning to fray.

The conclusion of Mildred Pierce is deliberately open-ended, leaving audiences with a sense of ambiguity and room for speculation. As the film nears its climax, Mildred’s daughter, Veda, confesses to murdering her stepfather, Monte Beragon.

2019年8月18日 · As Corrigan and White have argued, Mildred Pierce ‘visibly embraces a crisis in the public narrative of America’ (2004: 252) with its heart-rending portrayal of the collapse of the nuclear family at a time when many women resisted attempts to force them back into the home.

2012年2月23日 · A web-exclusive debate about Todd Haynes's miniseries Mildred Pierce between Amber Jacobs and Rob White, covering questions of desire, labor, economics, psychoanalysis, and feminism.

2011年3月27日 · The Mildred Pierce who was created by James M. Cain in his 1941 novel was an ambitious lower-middle-class woman whose husband left her, whose daughter Veda felt contempt for her, and who, via...