
The Damned Don't Cry(1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.


“Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!”
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce

Jack Carson
Wally Fay

Zachary Scott
Monte Beragon

Eve Arden
Ida Corwin

Ann Blyth
Veda Pierce Forrester

Bruce Bennett
Albert 'Bert' Pierce

Lee Patrick
Maggie Biederhof

Moroni Olsen
Inspector Peterson

Veda Ann Borg
Miriam Ellis

Jo Ann Marlowe
Kay Pierce
Mildred Pierce is a crime, drama film released in 1945 exploring themes of daughter, infidelity, husband wife relationship, restaurant, snob, business woman. Directed by Michael Curtiz, it stars Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott. A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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