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Mildred Pierce (1945)

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Title:	Mildred Pierce [IMDb]				Film Structure Tag Cloud
Release date:	October 20, 1945
Studio:	Warner Brothers
Runtime:	111 minutes
IMDB genres:	crime, drama, film-noir, mystery, romance
BYU holdings:	https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6794541

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Cast and Crew Actor Role Joan Crawford Mildred Pierce Jack Carson Wally Fay Zachary Scott Monte Beragon Eve Arden Ida Corwin Ann Blyth Veda Pierce Bruce Bennett Bert Pierce Lee Patrick Mrs. Maggie Biederhof Moroni Olsen Inspector Peterson Veda Ann Borg Miriam Ellis Jo Ann Marlowe Kay Pierce Butterfly McQueen Lottie Michael Curtiz: director Max Steiner: composer Leo F. Forbstein: musical director Hugo Friedhofer: orchestrator Film Statistics Stats Film duration: 1:50:43 Music duration: 01:02:22 Pages in score: 160 Total themes: 36 Themes with variants: 8 Total variants: 78 Total gestures: 32 Total underscoring sections: 7 Total underscoring duration: 00:04:47 Total instances: 174

Themes Name Uses Variants Mildred 41 30 Kay and Veda 31 25 Work 8 6 Bert 7 6 It Can’t Be Wrong 7 6 Mildred B 6 3 Secret Revealed 3 0 Pneumonia 2 1 Walking 2 0 Allegretto 1 0 Ballet Lesson 1 0 Bathing Suit 1 0 Beach House 1 0 First Kiss 1 0 Frolicking in the Surf 1 0 Hall of Justice 1 0 Hopes Crushed 1 0 Murdered Man 1 0 Polo 1 0 Signature 1 0 Stunned Reaction 1 0 The Maid 1 0 Transition 1 0 While You’re Away 1 0

Theme Combinations Name Uses Mazurka in B-Flat Major + Mildred 1 Source Music Name Uses Mazurka in B-Flat Major 2 Waltz Brillante 2 You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby 2 Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes 1 How Sweet You Are 1 It Had to Be You 1 Oceana Roll 1 Please Think of Me 1 South American Way 1 Sweet Georgia Brown 1 T’Ain’t No Good 1

Gestures Name Breaks door with chair Breaks glass Closes blinds Cops walk Disrobes Flashback ends Flashback starts Flashback starts 2 Glass falls Glasses clink Kay falls Lamp falls Mildred raises Veda Mildred sits Mildred stands and walks to window Monte is shot Monte is shot 2 Opens closet Opens coat Order wheel spins Phone rings Runs upstairs Rushing train Wally goes upstairs Wally knocks on the door Wally runs Wally sneaks Wally stands up and walks Wally tries to open door Wally walks Waves Waves rumbling Underscoring Name Dramatic Tense