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.
Cast
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Jack Carson
Wally Fay
Zachary Scott
Monte Beragon
Eve Arden
Ida Corwin
Ann Blyth
Veda Pierce Forrester
Bruce Bennett
Albert 'Bert' Pierce
Lee Patrick
Maggie Biederhof
Moroni Olsen
Inspector Peterson
Veda Ann Borg
Miriam Ellis
Jo Ann Marlowe
Kay Pierce
Butterfly McQueen
Lottie (uncredited)
Bill Alcorn
Soldier (uncredited)
Betty Alexander
Party Guest (uncredited)
Ramsay Ames
Party Guest (uncredited)
George Anderson
Peterson's Assistant (uncredited)
Robert Arthur
High School Boy (uncredited)
Lynn Baggett
Waitress (uncredited)
Leah Baird
Police Matron (uncredited)
Dorothy Barrett
Dorothy (uncredited)
Barbara Brown
Mrs. Forrester (uncredited)
Claire Carleton
Thieving Waitress (uncredited)
Doria Caron
Waitress (uncredited)
Wheaton Chambers
Personnel Man (uncredited)
Wallis Clark
Wally's Lawyer (uncredited)
Chester Clute
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
John Compton
Theodore 'Ted' Ellison Forrester (uncredited)
Joyce Compton
Waitress (uncredited)
Clancy Cooper
Policeman (uncredited)
David Cota
Pancho (uncredited)
Tom Dillon
Policeman (uncredited)
James Flavin
Detective (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Angela Greene
Party Guest (uncredited)
Dorothy Hack
Little Girl (uncredited)
Arthur Stuart Hull
First Night Diner With Cane (uncredited)
Charles Jordan
Policeman (uncredited)
Marjorie Kane
Waitress (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited)
Richard Kipling
Personnel Man (uncredited)
Manart Kippen
Dr. Gale (uncredited)
Marion Lessing
Waitress (uncredited)
Jimmy Lono
Monte's Houseboy (uncredited)
Jean Lorraine
Woman (uncredited)
George Meader
Man (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Man (uncredited)
Jack Mower
Jack the Mailman (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
First Night Diner (uncredited)
Garry Owen
Policeman on Pier (uncredited)
Paul Panzer
Waiter (uncredited)
Larry Rio
Reporter (uncredited)
William Ruhl
Personnel Man (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Diner Customer (uncredited)
Mary Servoss
Nurse (uncredited)
George Tobias
Mr. Chris (uncredited)
Charles Trowbridge
Mrs. Forrester's Lawyer (uncredited)
Johnny Walsh
Delivery Man (uncredited)
Joan Winfield
Piano Teacher (uncredited)
John Christian
Singing Teacher (uncredited)
Crew
Ranald MacDougall
Screenplay
Ernest Haller
Director of Photography
David Weisbart
Editor
Michael Curtiz
Director
James M. Cain
Novel
Jerry Wald
Producer
Max Steiner
Original Music Composer
George James Hopkins
Set Decoration
Milo Anderson
Costume Design
Jack L. Warner
Executive Producer
Frank Heath
Assistant Director
Harry Barndollar
Special Effects
Dick Moder
Assistant Director
Willard Van Enger
Special Effects
Perc Westmore
Makeup Artist
Edwin Allen
Makeup Artist
Anton Grot
Art Direction
Oliver S. Garretson
Sound
Bill Cooley
Makeup Artist
Robert G. Wayne
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Leo F. Forbstein
Music Director
Milton Gold
Still Photographer
Herschel Daugherty
Dialogue
William Schurr
Additional Camera
Bertram Tuttle
Supervising Art Director
James Leicester
Other
Paul Detlefsen
Matte Painter
Tyrus Wong
Art Department Assistant
Hugo Friedhofer
Orchestrator