Mildred Pierce
The complex film Mildred Pierce (1945) commented on the appropriate roles for women in the post-war era. As one of the top-grossing films of the 1940s, Mildred Pierce provided a dark co...
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Critical Essay by James T. Farrell
James M. Cain's novel, Mildred Pierce, wantonly squanders what could have been a very good and representative American story; it could even have been a great...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Edgar Hyman
["Mildred Pierce"] has about three books worth of plot: financial ups and downs, everyone in bed with everyone else, six punchy trick endings one a...
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Thanks to the auteur theory, instead of a lot of antiquated factory product and the studio P. and L. of yesteryear, we have the greats-Ford, Hawks, Lubitsch, Sturges, Cukor, Wyler, Lang, Wilder, Fu...
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When Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, “How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?” (Wilder, who was present, replied, “I ...
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When Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, “How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?” (Wilder, who was present, replied, “I...
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Here I am again, reluctantly counting my losses. Beloved, hated or just plain “Who cares?”, more celebrated people died in 2007 than any year in my memory. I always forget somebody, but...
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Mildred Pierce
Critical Essay by James T. Farrell
The Last Gasp of the 1950's, In Trashy, Sexy Cinemascope
