Mildred Pierce (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays)
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Albert J. LaValley's through and insightful guide to Mildred Pierce at once tells us much about the making of this complex film, the problems and process of transferring the story to the screen, the specific and important roles of the producer, director, and set designer, and how the film relates to broad trends within the industry. It is without a doubt the most thorough treatment of this important American motion picture.
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Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter.
Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
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Mildred Pierce (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays)
Mildred Pierce (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays),Albert J. La Valley,Tino T. Balio,University of Wisconsin Press,0299083748,American,Biography / Autobiography,Conflict of generations,Drama,General,Mothers and daughters,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Plays,Screenplays,Single mothers,Triangles (Interpersonal relat,Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
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