Mildred Pierce
“Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!”
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Cast
58 people
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Known for
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Johnny Guitar
Jack Carson
Wally Fay
Known for
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Star Is Born
Zachary Scott
Monte Beragon
Known for
The Southerner
The Young One
Eve Arden
Ida Corwin
Known for
Grease
Anatomy of a Murder
Ann Blyth
Veda Pierce Forrester
Known for
Brute Force
Bruce Bennett
Albert 'Bert' Pierce
Known for
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dark Passage
Lee Patrick
Maggie Biederhof
Known for
Vertigo
The Maltese Falcon
Moroni Olsen
Inspector Peterson
Known for
Notorious
Father of the Bride
Veda Ann Borg
Miriam Ellis
Known for
The Alamo
Guys and Dolls
Jo Ann Marlowe
Kay Pierce
Also in
Little Iodine
A Scandal in Paris
Butterfly McQueen
Lottie (uncredited)
Known for
Gone with the Wind
The Mosquito Coast
Bill Alcorn
Soldier (uncredited)
Also in
The Wake
Michael Curtiz Director · Ranald MacDougall Screenplay James M. Cain Author
Worldwide gross $5.6M · Budget $1.5M · United States release October 20, 1945
Box office
Budget
$1,453,000
Worldwide gross
$5,638,000
Gross vs. budget
3.9×
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 28, 1945
Premiere · New York City, New York
United States · October 20, 1945
Theatrical
Argentina
February 28, 1946 · Theatrical
Austria
January 1, 1950 · Theatrical
Denmark
November 12, 1948 · Theatrical
Finland
November 22, 1946 · Theatrical
France
January 29, 1947 · Theatrical
Germany
April 24, 1950 · Theatrical
Ireland
August 2, 2003 · Theatrical
Italy
December 4, 1947 · Theatrical
Netherlands
February 27, 2017 · Theatrical · DVD, Blu ray
Portugal
December 2, 1946 · Theatrical
Spain
November 1, 1948 · Theatrical
Sweden
November 18, 1946 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
April 13, 1946 · Theatrical
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