Director Michael Curtiz brings noir sensibility to the James Cain melodrama and directs Crawford to her only Academy Award in this superb Hollywood classic.
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‘Mildred Pierce’ – the miniseries on Amazon Prime and HBO Now
Mildred Pierce (2011) is less a remake than a new run at adapting the James M. Cain novel. Previously made into a Hollywood classic (which earned Joan Crawford her only Oscar), it’s been transformed into a five-hour mini-series by director Todd Haynes, who cast Kate Winslet in the title role as the mother blindly devoted […]