“The kind of woman most men want…but shouldn’t have.” Those words describe Mildred Pierce, the woman at the center of a Hollywood masterpiece. Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her performance as the title character in this noirish favorite as the waitress-turned-businesswoman who struggles to provide a good life for her children, only to have older daughter Ann Blyth repay her by having an affair with her stepfather. Michael Curtiz (who also helmed Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Four Daughters, and several other classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood) directs; with Zachary Scott, Jack Carson, Eve Arden.
