Mildred Pierce (film)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection. They separate leaving Mildred to raise the girls on her own. Elder daughter Veda goads her mother about their lack of money and in response Mildred proposes opening a small restaurant. Realtor Wally Fay advises her while making numerous rebuffed passes and introduces her to Monte Baragon whose property becomes the first of a chain of restaurants. Mildred has an affair with Monte. Meanwhile, money-hungry Veda pretends to be pregnant by wealthy Ted Forrester in order to bilk his family of $10,000. Mildred tears up the check, is slapped by Veda, and orders her daughter to leave. After time away, Mildred returns to find Veda singing in a cheap club. Veda will return only if Mildred promises luxury, so Mildred agrees to marry Monte in exchange for a third of her businesses. It soon becomes clear that something is going on between Veda and Monte. Mildred learns of this only after Monte has sold out his third of the her business leaving her bankrupt. She goes to Monte's beach house to kill him... Shots ring out, but what really happened?

Keywords: 17-year-old, accountant, actress, adultery, african-american, alligator, annulment, apology, arizona, baker

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Ida: Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.

Ida: [to leering customer Wally] Leave something on me - I might catch cold.

Wally: Oh boy! I'm so smart it's a disease!

Mildred: I'm sorry I did that... I'd've rather cut off my hand!

Veda: With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls.

Veda: You think just because you made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing.

Ida: When men get around me, they get allergic to wedding rings.

Lottie: [on the opening of Mildred's restaurant] This is just like my wedding night, so exciting!

Wally: You know, this is a pretty big night for you.::Policeman #1: Yeah?::Wally: Yeah, lots of excitement. There's a stiff in there!::Policeman #1: Is that so? Oh and I suppose you were running right down to the station to report it?::Wally: [forced laugh]::Policeman #1: Yeah... [to partner] Say, he say's there's a dead guy in the house.::Policeman #2: You never saw a deader.

Mildred: That Ted Forrester's nice-looking, isn't he? Veda likes him.::Monte: Who wouldn't? He has a million dollars.

'Mildred Pierce' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Pierce, Mildred Filmography

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Mildred Pierce