Character: Mildred Pierce in Mildred Pierce (1945)

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Played by Joan Crawford
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Tags associated with this character: leading lady, heroine, suspect, mother


Theme associated with this character: Mildred




Tags associated with this theme:

9th chord | 11th chord | 64 chord | AABA structure | added-note chord | aggressive | agitated | altered dominant | angry | apologizing | applying | appoggiatura | arguing | arriving | ascending | augmented sixth chord | beach | begging | calling | cheerful | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | chromatic wedge | comforting | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | cooking | crying | cut from film | dark | depressed | determined | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | distortion | dock | dramatic | dream-like | dreaming | driving | dying | embracing | emotional | enharmonic reinterpretation | flirting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | frolicking | gentle | half-diminished 7th chord | happy | harsh | heroic | hopeful | hurrying | imitation | insulting | interrogating | jaunty | kitchen | leaving | lonely | loving | mickey-mousing | minor-major 7th chord | mode mixture | mourning | Neapolitan | noble | octatonic scale | ominous | optimistic | parallelism | pc set | pedal tone | pleading | police station | pondering | promising | raising | regretting | resolved | restaurant | returning | reuniting | reverse stinger | romantic | room | running | scolding | searching | sequence | smiling | somber | standing | stern | street | tender | tense | tragic | tritone | triumphant | turbulent | uneasy | up | walking | warm | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale | working | worrying | writing

Theme associated with this character: Mildred B





Theme associated with this character: Work





Theme associated with this character: It Can't Be Wrong