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Play Sound I was always in the kitchen. I felt as though I'd been born in a kitchen and lived there all my life, except for the few hours it took to get married. - That you, Bert? - Yeah. Who else? I thought it might be Mrs. Whitley calling for her cake. Well, it isn't. I married Bert when I was 17. I never knew any other kind of life. Just cooking and washing and having children. Two girls, Veda and Kay. I pressed your other pair of pants. I thought you might want to see McLary about that...
I was always in the kitchen. I felt as though I'd been born in a kitchen and lived there all my life, except for the few hours it took to get married. - That you, Bert? - Yeah. Who else? I thought it might be Mrs. Whitley calling for her cake. Well, it isn't. I married Bert when I was 17. I never knew any other kind of life. Just cooking and washing and having children. Two girls, Veda and Kay. I pressed your other pair of pants. I thought you might want to see McLary about that...

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Description: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Cast:
Mildred Pierce Beragon: Joan Crawford
Wally Fay: Jack Carson
Monte Beragon: Zachary Scott
Ida Corwin: Eve Arden
Veda Pierce: Ann Blyth
Bert Pierce: Bruce Bennett
Mrs. Maggie Biederhof: Lee Patrick
Inspector Peterson: Moroni Olsen
Miriam Ellis: Veda Ann Borg
Kay Pierce: Jo Ann Marlowe
Soldier: Bill Alcorn
Party Guest: Helen Pender
Peterson's Assistant: George Anderson
Diner Customer: Jeffrey Sayre
High School Boy: Robert Arthur
Waitress: Marion Lessing
Police Matron: Leah Baird
Dorothy: Dorothy Barrett
Restaurant Patron: Sid Troy
Mrs. Forrester: Barbara Brown
Personnel Man: William Ruhl
Singing Teacher: John Christian
Wally's lawyer: Wallis Clark
Mr. Jones: Chester Clute
Theodore 'Ted' Ellison Forrester: John Compton
Policeman: Charles Jordan
Pancho: David Cota
Sailor: Robert Evans
Detective: Jack O'Connor
Bartender: Don Grant
Little Girl: Dorothy Hack
Bumped First Night Diner: Fred Kelsey
Dr. Gale: Manart Kippen
Attorney's Clerk: Perk Lazelle
Diner Patron: King Lockwood
Monte's Houseboy: Jimmy Lono
Woman: Mary Ellen Meyran
Man: Harold Miller
Waiter: Paul Panzer
Police Detective: Philo McCullough
Lottie - Mildred's Maid: Butterfly McQueen
Jack - Mailman: Jack Mower
First Night Diner: Frank O'Connor
Policeman on Pier: Garry Owen
Reporter: Larry Rio
Nurse: Mary Servoss
Clerk: John Sheridan
Mr. Chris: George Tobias
Mrs. Forrester's lawyer: Charles Trowbridge
Delivery Man: Johnny Walsh
Wife: Joan Wardley
Piano Teacher: Joan Winfield

Written by: Ranald MacDougall, James M. Cain, William Faulkner

Director: Michael Curtiz

Production: Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date: 20 Oct 1945