On its surface, “Mildred Pierce” is the story of a woman who struggles to keep her family afloat in Depression Era Los Angeles by opening a small restaurant, all the while enabling a monster of a ...

The 1945 movie Mildred Pierce starred Joan Crawford as an ambitious woman capable of anything — even murder. But it turns out that this film noir was quite a departure from the novel it was based on.

HBO has released the first trailer for their upcoming five-part miniseries, Mildred Pierce. Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven) is director, with Kate Winslet starring as “a proud, single mother struggling ...

The Mildred Pierce who was created by James M. Cain in his 1941 novel was an ambitious lower-middle-class woman whose husband left her, whose daughter Veda felt contempt for her, and who, via hard ...

“Mildred Pierce,” the classic film noir-meets-melodrama that won Joan Crawford her only Oscar, was released on this day in 1945, 70 years ago. Like many of Crawford’s pictures, Michael Curtiz’s ...

For me, the moment when “Mildred Pierce” really comes alive is when Mildred, after a shift as a waitress, takes stock of the kitchen. Changed back into her regular clothes, she surveys the pantry and ...

Melodrama is a loaded word, conjuring silent-film villains tying pigtailed girls to railroad tracks. Or black-and-white "weepies" whose music crescendoes as Bette Davis or Greta Garbo face The Worst ...

Kate Winslet won an Emmy as lead actress in a miniseries or a movie for HBO's Mildred Pierce. The 35-year-old actress, who is renowned for her gushing speeches, was clearly emotional as she paid ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The marriage that opens ‘Mildred Pierce’ is one that nobody wants to be ...

Hollywood legend Joan Crawford may have died in 1977, but she’s having a great April. On FX’s new series “Feud,” Jessica Lange stars as Crawford in a pitch-perfect recreation of her rivalry with Bette ...

In Ann Blyth's opinion, her character Veda Pierce in the film noir classic "Mildred Pierce" (1945) isn't a misunderstood young woman. As the femme fatale who leads her poor mother (played by Joan ...

Click here to read more from Slate’s “Pulp Fiction” week. The first house I bought did not come with a refrigerator, so friends made a gift of a 1950s-era model that they were replacing. It was plump ...