Mildred Pierce Articles

Ann Blyth on TCM: KISMET, ROSE MARIE, OUR VERY OWN 8:00 PM MILDRED PIERCE (1945). A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society. Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett. BW-111 mins. 10:00 PM KISMET (1955). In this Arabian Nights musical, the "king of the beggars" infiltrates [...]

Joan Crawford (right, in Daisy Kenyon) is Turner Classic Movies‘ next "Summer Under the Stars" star. On Monday, August 22, TCM will be showing 13 Joan Crawford movies, in addition to Peter Fitzgerald’s documentary Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star, narrated by Anjelica Huston. (Curiously, Crawford is nowhere to be found in any of the 40+ films directed by Anjelica Huston’s father, John Huston.) [Joan [...]

Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, Joan Crawford in Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce MILDRED PIERCE Review Part I Mildred Pierce was adapted from a novel of the same name by James M. Cain, who wrote Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice. The adaptation was credited to Ranald MacDougall, though Catherine Turney (Of Human Bondage, A Stolen Life) and novelist William Faulkner were two among several [...]

MILDRED PIERCE (1945) Direction: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, Jack Carson, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett, Jo Ann Marlowe, Lee Patrick, Moroni Olsen, Veda Ann Borg Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall (Catherine Turney, Albert Maltz, and William Faulkner were among the uncredited contributors); from James M. Cain’s novel Oscar Movies Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce Time has a way of making some films seem grander [...]