This movie is great birth control😂

@feliciaboston6365

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

It's funny that this role was first offered to Bette Davis and she passed on it. Davis was one of the greatest actresses, but I couldn't think of anyone else doing a better job than Joan. She really was perfect in this. Oscar well deserved.

@lusam1980

5 жыл бұрын

mattbernabe I never knew that, I cant see her as Mildred. I love both women movies and work.

@thenaturalboxer

5 жыл бұрын

I'm a huge Bette Davis fan, but Joan was truly wonderful too. She owned this role.

@mattbernabe

5 жыл бұрын

@@thenaturalboxer She sure did!

@robertdoherty2001

3 жыл бұрын

Davis has flatly stated that she was never considered for this film and never offered it. There was a tussle casting it; the director wanted Barbara Stanwyck; Ann Sheridan was considered; Rosalind Russell campaigned for it, agreeing to do “Roughly Speaking” first as part of the bargain. When she was tossed in favour of Crawford she tore up her non-exclusive contract. Crawford got it because she’d been cooling her heels for two years since joining Warner’s and it was in their better interest to finally get her on the screen.

@nancydemoss8421

3 жыл бұрын

I agree that it was a great movie and Crawford deserved the Oscar. I recently saw for the first time another of her movies. In fact there are 2 other movies of hers that she was great in. One is "Possessed" and I'm drawing a blank on the third. She played a woman who is involved with a married man played by Dana Andrews. It's a woman's name too. Great again! "Possessed" is considered to be Film Noir and I love those movies!

The lighting in this film is impressive especially the way the light falls on Crawford's face.

@annedavis6090

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, the glitter of Mildred's single teardrop as she is on the phone with the police. ....and Vida thinks her mother will help her hide her crime...✨best. movie✨

@annedavis6090

3 жыл бұрын

masters of shadow and light🤗

@RaymondHng

3 жыл бұрын

That's film noir. Both light and shadow are placed on the frame.

@andrewmark2783

Жыл бұрын

Joan Crawford knew to make good friends with her lighting crew

@GothGuy885

4 ай бұрын

I remember my Dad telling me how they used to do this in B&W film Noir movies. they used something called a Keyhole light. that could be shaped and focused to just fall on part or all of someones face. they had alot of impressive lighting effects back then, that I think they Seldom, if ever use anymore with modern films.

Happy birthday Ann Blyth who played Veda, she turned 90 yesterday and she was 17 here!

@RaymondHng

3 жыл бұрын

Ann Blyth came to the Castro Theater kzread.info/dash/bejne/h56LmsiAZ7HOhbw.html and shared her memories kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZhrz5KNqtfKcaQ.html

@gracecheri997

3 жыл бұрын

Joan Crawford was a great actress. This was her part. Ann Blyth and Joan were good friends. She later gave Joan a tribute at a function.

@JayJay-nc7pr

3 жыл бұрын

Grace Cheri yes they were good friends Joan really looked out for Ann and made sure she was looked after and protected

@gracecheri997

3 жыл бұрын

@@JayJay-nc7pr Great Acting. Ann gave a beautiful testimony about Joan's kindness. A person has many sides. I think of my mother when l see Joan Crawford because she was my mom's favorite actress. 🌞

@Darrigrande

Жыл бұрын

@@gracecheri997 Both delivered a great performance. Great actresses!

I like how she and Bert walk away together at the end. They’ve essentially lost both their daughters and are ready to support each other. Whether they actually get back together or not is irrelevant. This is a situation where each only has the other to truly understand their feelings.

@sharksport01

Жыл бұрын

Poor Mrs. Beidermeijer.

Joan Crawford is a force of nature. Love her forever!!

@lisaray8377

Жыл бұрын

Yes!! Absolutely.. Me too

No one could play this role like Joan Crawford .

@andrewmark2783

Жыл бұрын

I think it struck something real inside Joan, who, like Mildred, came from humble beginnings and made something of herself through sheer determination.

@maskedmarvyl4774

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewmark2783 , She pulled herself up by her own bootstraps, and then she used those bootstraps to strap her children into bed.....

@creativewriter3887

Жыл бұрын

Could you imagine Barbara Stanwyk in this role or......... Bette Davis (who passed on this first)

@thomasdonio2129

Жыл бұрын

No, I could not imagine anyone else playing Mildred. Joan was tailor-made for this role: by temperament, talent, and tenacity.

@mattbernabe

Жыл бұрын

​@Creativewriter3 As brilliant as those other two actresses are, I still can't see anyone else playing this role so masterfully as Crawford.

Actors from this time period are masters at that "I'm a bad guy and I love it" look.

What excellent acting. No smoke and mirrors, just real talent.

I just saw this movie spoofed on Carol Burnett. In the skit Mildred shoots bratty Vida dead at the end, LOL.

@seriousone8030

5 жыл бұрын

Mildred should have shot Veda AND Monty!

@RaymondHng

3 жыл бұрын

@@seriousone8030 "Mildred Fierce" kzread.info/dash/bejne/mICatcuEeZaqo7A.html

@andrewmark2783

Жыл бұрын

Joan loved that parody of the film. She wasn't so keen about Carol's Torch Song sketch though...

@peztopher7297

Жыл бұрын

I just watched it last night!

I couldn't stand Veda ass. Mildred gave her everything, she was even going to go to prison for her and she was still a spoiled brat to the end

@gwae48

Жыл бұрын

VERY WELL ACTED. HORRIBLE GIRL. TERRIFFIC MOVIE.

@creativewriter3887

Жыл бұрын

They said that in the book on which the movie was based she was even MORE vile.

@rudyrivera718

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂right

@creativewriter3887

Жыл бұрын

Someone said.. Mildred really needed to go "mommie dearest" on veda's a@@.. "Working it ain't WORK, Veda!!"

Joan Crawford is a legend!

Don't worry mother, I'm a complete sociopath.

@mauricewalton9287

4 жыл бұрын

Karl Lieck and the sad part is even though that was a character she played there are actual everday ppl out here who r just like Veda😨......scary isn't?

@02chevyguy

4 жыл бұрын

And Veda will take over the prison cell as "The QUEEN BITCH".

@karllieck9064

3 жыл бұрын

@@mauricewalton9287 Yup!

@arnoldamaral7406

3 жыл бұрын

BAD SEED 100%

@maskedmarvyl4774

3 жыл бұрын

"After all mommy, I didn't make me a sociopath, You did!!"

Joan Crawford.... she was so beautiful.

Joan Crawford was beautiful and perfect in this role. Completely deserved Oscar. One of my favorite movies.... A beautiful film noir.

This revelation was DEVASTATING!!! 😩😭😭😭

Ernest Haller’s cinematography gave us that timeless quintessential 1940s woman we love and recognize Joan for.

"I didn't mean to do it... But the gun kept going off, over and over again." 😱

@maskedmarvyl4774

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like Veda will fit right into the women's prison theater production of Chicago; especially the number "He Had It Comin'..."

@rhondawiggins5728

Жыл бұрын

Don’t you hate it when that happens?

@creativewriter3887

Жыл бұрын

@@maskedmarvyl4774 OMG. I was thinking the same thing!! lol "he kept asking.. "can I have another one"?

@peztopher7297

Жыл бұрын

"Even when there weren't any more bullets."

I disliked Vida with a passion. Poor Mildred worked her fingers to the bone and sacrificed so much to give that spoiled tramp everything and still it was never enough. I loved Joan Crawford in this and it remains one of my favorite movies

I like the way Veda casually says "dont worry about me mother I'll get by" 😊

@margaretross9150

7 ай бұрын

She was a psychopath.

@robynmarler1951

3 ай бұрын

It's awful.

A wonderful ending. She loses her youngest daughter of pneumonia, her eldest is convicted of murdering her husband, her business partner/friend Wally steals her business under her and all that's left is the man she divorced but was more honest and real with her than anyone else in her life. On top of that the visual of the two maids cleaning the floor-symbolic of how Mildred was in the beginning of the story- and you've got a well-knitted story.

@agnesgrep1970

9 ай бұрын

Completely different ending than the book as Warner Bros. screenwriters took liberties with James M. Cain's novel to make "Mildred" more resemble Paramount's successful film adaptation of Cain's "Double Indemnity" (1944) in which unhappy wife Barbara Stanwyck and insurance salesman Fred MacMurray plot to murder Stanwyck's hubby for his life insurance, thus the tacked on Monty murder at the expense of Veda's career as an opera singer. Novel synopsis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Pierce

@keddakedda7939

7 ай бұрын

Wasn’t Mildred letting the business go down the slum cause she was using the money to spoil Veda which led to Wally taking over?

She fucking played that role! .. Crawford forever!

@W81Researcher

2 ай бұрын

Are you a gay person?

Veda was even more of a viper in the James Cain novel; well worth a read.

Joan was incredible

Loved Joan Crawford - my fav Crawford films are Mildred Pierce , The Women , Johnny Guitar , and Whatever Happened To Baby Jane - having said that i would watch a soup commercial with Joan in it and love it

@RaymondHng

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/eICcsdyIfK3KhM4.html

@williamf4544

3 жыл бұрын

@@RaymondHng Thank you

Excellent performances. The camera skill is exceptional.

Veda was such a bitch. Ann Blyth should've won that Oscar!

Thanks Joan dearest. This movie was a huge hit. Humoresque she made next is so beautiful it has no match. She was one of a kind. Nobody did it as well.

nothing stings so much as an ungrateful child.

@MiamiPush2theLimit

3 жыл бұрын

tommy nevils it’s really so hurtful 😩😭

gotta love miss joan crawford.

@andrewjwheelerjr3908

4 жыл бұрын

I adore her what an amazing performance she was in this gem of a film noir.

I know that Kay, as the little sister, is out of the movie early. She was adorable. Sadly, the actress Jo Ann Marlowe, who played her, was in an accident which left her in a coma for 22 years until she died at 55. In bed in a coma for 22 years. Seeing her in the movie under the oxygen tent is so freaking ominous.

@dalehoward3704

Жыл бұрын

😞

@infonut

4 ай бұрын

How tragic.

"Look, you don't really think I could be in love with a rotten little tramp like you, do you?" Harshness.

Veda was nominated for being on the 100 villains movie list.

@annedavis6090

3 жыл бұрын

👍

In all her movies this one was the best.

Veda is just a terrible person

@Darrigrande

3 жыл бұрын

Ann Blyth was brilliant as the sellfish, selfcenterd and reckless Vida!

The best martyr in the world "Miss Joan Crawford!"

The daughter: Veda was one more brat, let me tell ya. Joan Crawford, what a champ. I love Joan Crawford's movies. Mildred Pierce is one of my favorites. I was mad enough to go through the screen. I even cussed at the TV. I know, I know, this is only a movie. So, I guess Veda done her job so well, I hated her.

last night ,I watched the Carol Burnett shows take on this movie. they called it "Mildred Fierce" 🤣

I would LOVE to have a gun like she used! Absolutely NO recoil!

@AndrewMacLaine

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. I know almost nothing about guns and still cringe at how that gun movement looked so ... flaccid.

One of my favorite movies & Joan Crawford, one of my favorite actresses.

If I was Mildred that would have been the last straw and said “Monty you can take charge now” as in handing vida over to him so he can live with the struggle now. I would of had enough at that point and just dropped her.

What a brilliant film! GLORIOUS!

Give me another chance, mother, and help me hide the body.

Epic ❤❤❤Joan Crawford

No, it’s a good thing. Miss Davis passing on this role . It was Crawford. Curtiz didn’t want Crawford. He made her screen test for it. She had him in tears.

3:14 "It's your fault as much as mine! I didn't spoil me rotten, you did!!" - Vida to Mildred in the Carol Burnett show parody, MILDRED FIERCE.

@lisaray8377

Жыл бұрын

Exactly.. You know that saying that you teach people how to treat you..😮

Everybody rags on Vita. Sure, she deserves it but what about Mildred's second husband?? He warnt no angel!

@deb310red

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he chose to bang his step-daughter in the home that Mildred paid for.

THNX FOR THIS !!!! 😘

My favorite movie, alongside All About Eve. Unravels the soul of humanity and exposes the common greed.

My favorite Curtiz movie. Just brilliantly acted, directed and written.

The man was playing them both, he got what his wanted in the end - neither of them!

@peztopher7297

Жыл бұрын

I think it's supposed to be emblematic of where Mildred came from.

That girl was sure messed up.

MAGNIFICA PELICULA.

I really enjoyed this. Thanks.

Such powerful acting is seldom seen in most Hollywood films nowadays, given the rigorous rehearsals actors and actresses had gone through back in the days of Classic Hollywood. A big thanks to Ms. Joan Crawford, Ms. Ann Blyth, and the rest of the movie stars and producers for a great and iconic movie.😉😊📢🎥📽🎬❤

@yevgeniyaleshchenko849

3 ай бұрын

There are good actors now as well. Both in and outside of hollywood.

I love this movie!!

I can't get you out this Vida.

Veda is a sociopath.

It's interesting how those women are scrubbing the floor. I saw Mommie Dearest.

Veda’s character is based on Christina Crawford. Joan herself said so!

The daughter is a pure Kardashian fit 😂

Don't worry about me mother I'll get by....... Ha!!!!

@lisaray8377

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Right lol Those women in jail is going to eat Veda alive lol

@TimidStorm

11 ай бұрын

She’s young, white, wealthy and attractive. What could go wrong in prison? 😅

Hola,la busco en KZread para verla entera en español,no la encuentro!! porfavor ayuda

Weren't the pies enough?

@lisaray8377

Жыл бұрын

That little girl was so ungrateful.. Such a shame that she did not appreciate her mother 😮😢

Accurate sounding ringing signal at 3:08 on that Automatic Electric 34 Monophone (independent system) she’s on.

No wire hangers

I appreciate Kate Winslet's work but she certainly or no one else can surpass or even match Joan's brilliant performance

Ann Blyth was such a BRAT in this movie, I wonder if she gets hate mail for that. Sometimes I forget that she was acting!

@Kaboomboo

4 жыл бұрын

IRL she didn't like being mean to Joan because they were so friendly.

Poor Dear Sweet Helpless Veda!

@lukasmiller486

4 жыл бұрын

Not.

@arnoldamaral7406

3 жыл бұрын

@@lukasmiller486 WORD!!!

PARA RECORDAR EL BUEN CINE DE ESAS EPOCAS DE ORO, MAGNIFICOS ARGUMENTOS, EXCELENTISIMOS DRAMAS. ES UN PRIVILEGIO VER ESTAS PELICULAS SEÑORES.

Mothers love

It's easy to see why this was a role of a lifetime for her - it's how she saw herself as a mother and no doubt she saw her daughter Christina to be a little like Veda (well maybe not just a little). A woman who has worked herself up from nothing and saddled with an entitled brat of a daughter. And sacrificing herself for her daughter - which is no doubt she way she saw it. I hear they have done a remake with Kate Winslet playing Mildred - I cannot for the life of my imagine her in that role.

@MiamiPush2theLimit

3 жыл бұрын

Christiane Alshut Kate did a good job.

@RaymondHng

3 жыл бұрын

Christina was six years old when _Mildred Pierce_ was released.

@ValleyoftheRogue

11 ай бұрын

@@RaymondHng No. She was born in 1939, while the film was released in 1945. She was six years old then.

@RaymondHng

11 ай бұрын

@@ValleyoftheRogue Corrected.

all crimes of emotions,passions without rationale, reason.... yet all this comes with maturity and time, you do not grow however hard you try and say you understand, only time can bring that sensibility in order of that evolved understanding

WOW. Big difference from the book ending. I'm so torn between which is better. Though seeing that brat go to jail was a bonus compared to the original.

So is that her first husband waiting for her outside at the end?

@missmaggie2620

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@CrazyWatcher670

Жыл бұрын

@@missmaggie2620 thank you.

@hipsterdoofus1026

8 ай бұрын

It really has a sad ending for Mildred, she has to go back to that drip

Movies do imitate life.

Então foi desse filme que o Walcir Carrasco se inspirou pra novela A Dona do Pedaço kk

Too bad for Joan she got a daughter like this in real life.

TINA!!!!!!!!!!

Great movie! And great imagination!! Psychopathy is rare. Honestly, LOL

great movie.....crawford was brilliant in it.......i think crawford was brilliqant in the movie but davis morphed into different characters....crawford read lines with different inflections...

Plot twist we stan

This is not the real final of the story

@Brian-yw2yb

3 жыл бұрын

But it’s a whole lot better!

Note the round mirror at 4:11... Under what Dutch Old Master, Trusty tool, was this Heaven- Scented cinematographer’s vast, or Seemingly-vast, apprenticeship Served? Or did stormtroup purrs Turn into roars, and torpedo a ship Just beginning to ... well ... Wurst comes first, where’s the waste? A man never fast-claimed, I don’t think, unique insight; only To account for his (admittedly) odd taste.

I saw a video on KZread recently that analysed the underlying psychology of this film. I would seem that the author of the novel, James M. Cain believed that women, by working outside of the home and joining a capitalist workforce, deformed/ corrupted the natural mother/daughter relationship. Making the bonds of love/ trust/ respect into a transactional exchange of material wealth for filial devotion. Mildred can never do enough to make Vida love and respect her. Vida is contemptuous of her mother's efforts yet needs the wealth and status she provides. That’s what happens when you try to compete in a man's world, ladies (according to the author and this analysis). Changed how I viewed the film forever.

@ValleyoftheRogue

11 ай бұрын

The movie was made nearly 80 years ago (1945), and the book is older than that (published 1941). Blaming women, especially working mothers, for their "juvenile delinquent' children was a common belief back then. In fact, whatever analysis some YTer gave regarding this film isn't anything groundbreaking. It has been a common analysis of the book and the movie for decades. In any case, Cain's ideas have nothing to do with the truth or the families of today.

@c.a.savage5689

9 ай бұрын

@@ValleyoftheRogue Well it was news to me. I found Cain's premise that women working outside the home can damage their child psychologically to be pretty shocking. But that's just me. The movie impressed me as hysterical and overwrought. Vida isn't a deliquent. She's more of a spoiled brat with sociopathic tendencies. And as far as l know, parents are still considered responsible for children who commit crimes.

@hipsterdoofus1026

7 ай бұрын

I like this movie, to me it seems like a tragic ending for Mildred, she loses her daughter, her business and she has to go back to her loser first husband. Her life was so much better when she was a successful businesswoman

Good flick

Why does a new car have trouble starting...well, nevermind. It was my olden days.

Fabulous film. I've seen it about 800 times as no I still want to smack

@vickikay25

3 жыл бұрын

The hell out of Vida!!!

1. When someone says 'We need some fresh air in here", don't they usually open a window instead of pull up on the shade? 2. The two doing the floor...isn't that Christina and Christopher (in drag)? I'm somewhat shocked Joan didn't go up to them, kick them in the head and yell "YOU MISSED A SPOT!!!"

@2degucitas

3 жыл бұрын

Grrrr! What a snarky comment. I love it!

@christianealshut1123

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's also a forshadowing of what awaits Veda in prison - no doubt she would be forced to do hard labor.

@02chevyguy

3 жыл бұрын

@@christianealshut1123 LOL! You're kidding, right? She'll be the new QUEEN BITCH of the cell. She'll have everybody else doing the work for her.

@02chevyguy

3 жыл бұрын

@@2degucitas Thanks. Stay safe.

@RaymondHng

3 жыл бұрын

@@christianealshut1123 Mildred will probably hire the best defense attorney for Veda.

She got from her Mama

I suppose that's how Joan's mother felt finding Joan and her husband together.

@nina1522

3 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing it was a whole lot worse, since Joan was only 11 years old at the time. She should have castrated that sick bastard.

@Digmer

3 жыл бұрын

@@nina1522 instead, the mother monster kicked her out to live with nuns. no wonder joan had emotional issues and drinking problems. if your own mom fails you like that...whats left to the world? poor joan.

@Digmer

3 жыл бұрын

that would make sense IF joan was not an eleven year old child. the real life man was a pedophile. the real life daughter was a victim.

@deb310red

3 жыл бұрын

Not the same thing. Joan was molested by her step-father. He belonged in jail.

@nina1522

3 жыл бұрын

@@deb310red his sorry ass belonged under the jail.

Poor Mildred, she loved that girl!

@elizabethescalante8114

Жыл бұрын

Well, that was the problem. In the words of Master Shi-Fu, she loved her too much to see what she was becoming. What she was turning her into.

@lisaray8377

Жыл бұрын

@@elizabethescalante8114 Exactly!! It is to bad that her youngest daughter that died, Who really appreciated her mom and looked up to her..Thought that her mom was wonderful. Unlike her ungrateful oldest child.. Sad state of affairs 😮😢One of my favorite movies of all time.. I never get tired of watching Mildred Pierce..❤💕❤️ Classic…

I’ve never seen the entire movie

@rgs6236

5 жыл бұрын

Arikm7 she is now 90yrs old today

@lusam1980

5 жыл бұрын

Arikm7 I agree, I love this movie so much and haven't even watch the remake because im so loyal to this version 😄😄

Interesting he doesn’t say anything in front of Mildred

Ann Blyth for Hostess Cupcakes 🧁

If there had been even one bullet left in that gun Vida would have unloaded it into Mildred too.Hateful bitch.

@feliciaboston6365

Жыл бұрын

lol be quiet it’s not really lmao

Joan played this pathetic part very very well.

@feliciaboston6365

Жыл бұрын

And how is it pathetic exactly??

@cheryldevine42

Жыл бұрын

@@feliciaboston6365 Her role was pathetic. She played a weak mother, she did too much for that kid and let her get away with being that way by not setting boundaries. She did a great job acting that part. Imo.

Veda should have shot the police detective as well for terrible acting.

Am I the only one who hopes Veda gets her pretty little face cut up in prison?

So the moral of the story is this, Always use condoms and birth control.