Review of Mildred Pierce (1945) by Thomas L — 04 Jun 2008
Just caught this last night on the big screen at Sid Grauman's restored Million Dollar Theatre in downtown L.A. Joan Crawford was brilliant, although Eve Arden steals every scene she's in. Ann Blyth seemed a natural as the bad seed.
In the audience last night was Ann Blyth's daughter, which made the whole dynamic kind of interesting, as did seeing the film with something like two thousand people. Anyway, the story sort of mixes it up.
It's kinda film noir, kinda family drama, kind of a romance. Partly that can be explained by the fact that something like a dozen screenwriters worked on this thing, although only one got screen credit.
The most recent Indy movie had about that many writers and only suffered for it. For this film that strategy yielded the exact opposite result. And did I mention Joan's awesome?
This review of Mildred Pierce (1945) was written by Thomas L on 04 Jun 2008.
Mildred Pierce has generally received very positive reviews.
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