Title: | Mildred Pierce [IMDb] | ![]() |
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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 |
Plot keywords (from IMDb): 17 year old, accountant, actress, adultery, african american, alligator, annulment, apology, arizona, baker, baking a pie, ballet class, ballroom dancing, bandaging a hand, banging on a door, bank check, based on novel, beach, beach house, begging for help, bill, birthday, birthday cake, birthday party, black american, black doll, blackmail, borrowing money, bourbon, boy, break up, breaking a glass window, broken glass, butterfly collection, buying a husband, cafe, cake, camera, camera shot of a woman's legs, car as gift, car won't start, carmen miranda imitation, cash register, caught in the rain, champagne, character name in title, cheating husband, chicken, cigarette case, cigarette smoking, circular staircase, class, class differences, climbing out a window, community property, contemplating suicide, convertible, corsage, costume, cough foreshadows death, coughing, cover up, creditor, crying, cutting one's hand on broken glass, dancer, dancing, dancing school, dead body, death, death of child, death of daughter, death of husband, death of sister, debt, detective, deviousness, discovering a dead body, divorce, doctor, doll, dress, dressing room, drink, drinking, dysfunctional family, dysfunctional marriage, eating, estate, estranged daughter, ex husband ex wife relationship, extortion, extramarital affair, face slap, faked pregnancy, false confession, family betrayal, fancy dress, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, female singer, financial crisis, financial settlement, fireplace, flash camera, flash forward, flashlight, flirting, flower, food, football, for sale sign, fortune, fortune teller, frame up, framed butterfly, fur coat, gin rummy, girl, giving a toast, glendale california, greed, gullibility, hand wound, homecoming, housewife, husband murdered, husband wife relationship, in medias res, infidelity, intercom, investigation, investigator, jealousy, jukebox, kicking one's daughter out of one's home, kiss, kissing someone's neck, kitchen, ladder, laguna beach california, lake arrowhead, lawyer, leitmotif, liar, lie, lighting a cigarette for a woman, lighting someone's cigarette, locked door, locked in, locust, loneliness, looking for a job, looking through a window, loss of daughter, love, loveless marriage, maid, mail, manipulation, marital separation, marriage, marriage engagement, marriage proposal, mexico, mirror, money, mother and daughter in love with the same man, mother daughter relationship, mother love, mother son relationship, motherhood, murder, murder of husband, narcissism, newspaper, nightclub, nurse, older man younger woman relationship, opening a restaurant, opera, opportunist, orchestra, orchestral music score, orchid, oxygen tent, partnership, pasadena california, photograph, photographer, piano, piano player, pie, plague, playboy, playing piano, pneumonia, police, police station, policeman, polo, pregnancy, pretending to be pregnant, pride, promise, proverb, pulling skirt down to cover knees, rain, real estate agent, record player, reference to little red riding hood, reference to the big bad wolf, reference to the prodigal daughter, reporter, resentment toward husband, resentment toward wife, restaurant, restaurant cashier, restaurant chain, restaurateur, rum collins, sailor, scotch and soda, scrubbing the floor, search light, searchlight, self sacrifice, shadow, shoes, shot multiple times, sick child, singer, singing, singing lesson, single mother, sister sister relationship, snobbishness, snoop, social climber, socialite, song, source music, spiral staircase, spoiled child, street football, suicide contemplation, suicide intervention, suitcase, swimming, swimsuit, symphonic music score, taking the fall, taxi, tea, tear on cheek, tearing up a bank check, tears, teen angst, teenage girl, telephone, telephone call, telephone disconnected, threat of bankruptcy, title spoken by character, told in flashback, tomboy, train, tribulation, unemployment, unfaithfulness, ungrateful daughter, viciousness, voice lesson, voice over narration, waitress, waitress uniform, waitress wearing a string bikini, wealth, wedding present, wolf whistle, woman in a bikini, woman wearing a mink coat, work uniform, flashback