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Mildred Pierce

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October 11, 2022August 24, 2022

Mildred Pierce (1945) starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth, Eve Arden

Synopsis of Mildred Pierce

In Mildred Pierce, a mother’s love can lead to murder! Joan Crawford delivers an Academy Award-winning performance as a woman clawing her way to success. In order to provide her daughters with everything she lacks. A woman named Mildred Pierce. Dying of gunshot wounds, Monte Beragon (Zachary Scott) croaks the name “Mildred”. The police believe he has named his murderer … and Pierce confesses to the crime. Now, as her story unfolds, the police learn of a woman who divorces her philandering husband. Then she takes a job as a waitress. And does anything to achieve success–only to be betrayed by the daughter she adores.

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March 18, 2022March 18, 2022

Mother Wore Tights (1947) starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall

Dan Dailey and Betty Grable star as a young man and woman, whom team up as performers during the age of vaudeville and soon fall in love. Mother Wore Tights story of their rise to fame, and the subsequent professional and personal setbacks, is told in flashback and set against a rousing musical score.