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Title:

Mildred Pierce / Warner Bros. presents ; screenplay by Ranald MacDougall ; produced by Jerry Wald ; directed by Michael Curtiz.

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Mothers and daughters--Drama.
Single mothers--Drama.
Feature films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Curtiz, Michael, 1888-1962, film director.
Motion picture adaptation of (work) Cain, James M. (James Mallahan), 1892-1977. Mildred Pierce.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Other Titles:

Mildred Pierce (Motion picture)

Notes:

Based on a novel by James M. Cain. Originally released as a motion picture in 1945. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: New conversation about Mildred Pierce with Molly Haskell and Robert Polito; Excerpt from a 1970 episode of The David Frost Show featuring Joan Crawford;l Joan Crawford: The Ultimate movie star; Q&A with actor AnnBlyth from 2002; segment from a 1969 episode of The Today Show featuring novelist James M. Cain; trailer. Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Eve Arden, Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Bruce Bennett.

Summary:

As Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 860.

ISBN:

168143265X
9781681432656

UPC:

715515192811

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)