Mildred Pierce

Year: 1945

Production Country: USA

Directed by Michael Curtiz
Featuring Joan Crawford / Jack Carson / Zachary Scott

Stills (23)

Story of a mother's sustained sacrifices for her worthless daughter, and of the whirlwind she eventually reaps.

Cast & credits

Cast

Mildred Pierce Joan Crawford
Wally Fay Jack Carson
Monte Beragon Zachary Scott
Ida Korvin Eve Arden
Veda Pierce Ann Blyth
Bert Pierce Bruce Bennett
Maggie Binderhof Lee Patrick
Inspector Peterson Moroni Olsen
Miriam Ellis Veda Ann Borg
Kay Pierce Jo Ann Marlowe
[policeman on pier] Garry Owen
[policeman] Tom Dillon
[policeman] Clancy Cooper
[Joe, detective] James Flavin
[detective] John O'connor
[policeman] Charles Jordan
[reporter] Larry Rio
[Jack, the mailman] George Meader
[delivery man] Johnny Walsh
[waitress] Joyce Compton
[waitress] Lynne Baggett
[waitress] Marion Lessing
[waitress] Doria Caron
[waitress] Marjorie 'Babe' Kane
[waitress] Elyse Brown
[Lottie] Butterfly Mcqueen
[houseboy] Jimmy Lono
[Dr Gale] Manart Kippen
[nurse] Mary Servoss
[Peterson's assistant] George Anderson
[Ted Forrester] John Compton
[bartender] Don Grant
[Mr Jones] Chester Clute
[Mrs Forrester] Barbara Brown
[Mr Williams] Charles Trowbridge
[waiter] Paul Panzer
[sailor] Bob Evans
[Wally's lawyer] Wallis Clark
[Pancho] David Cota
[Mr Chris] George Tobias
[high school boy] Robert Arthur
[party guest] Ramsay Ames
[police matron] Leah Baird
[singing teacher] John Christian
[piano teacher] Joan Winfield
[attorney's clerk] Park Lazelle
[soldier] William Alcorn
[clerk] John Sheridan
[party guest] Angela Greene
[party guest] Betty Alexander
[party guest] Helen Pender
[personnel man] Richard Kipling
[personnel man] Wheaton Chambers
[personnel man] William Ruhl
[wife] Jeanne Wardley
[.] Harold Miller
[.] Mary Ellen Meyran
[.] Jean Lorraine
[.] Bob Locke Lorraine

Credits

Direction

Directed by Michael Curtiz
[Assistant Director] Frank Heath
[Assistant Director (2nd)] Dick Moder

Production

©/Presents Warner Bros.
Production Company First National
Executive Producer Jack L. Warner
Produced by Jerry Wald
[Unit Manager] Lou Baum

Writing

Screen Play by Ranald Macdougall
[Contributing Writer] Catherine Turney
[Contributing Writer] Albert Maltz
[Contributing Writer] Margaret Gruen
[Contributing Writer] Margaret Buell Wilder
[Contributing Writer] Thames Williamson
[Contributing Writer] William Faulkner
[Contributing Writer] Louise Randall Pierson
Based on the novel by James M. Cain

Photography

Director of Photography Ernest Haller
[2nd Camera] William Schurr
[Camera Operator] Frank Evans
[Assistant Camera Operator] Frank Burkett
[Gaffer] James Goldenhaur
[Best Boy] Rene Steffen
[Grip] S.E. Young

Stills

[Stills] Milton Gold

Special Effects

[Matte Paintings] Paul Detlefsen
[Matte Paintings] Mario Larrinaga
Special Effects by Willard Van Enger
[Special Effects] Harry Barndollar

Editing

Film Editor David Weisbart
Montages by James Leicester

Design

Art Director Anton F. Grot
[Supervisiong Art Director] Bertram Tuttle
Set Decorations by George James Hopkins
[Props] Limey Plews
[Assistant Props] Levi C. Williams

Costumes

Wardrobe by Milo Anderson
[Wardrobe] Clayton Brackett
[Wardrobe] Jeanette Storck

Make-up

Makeup Artist Perc Westmore
[Make-up] Bill Cooley
[Make-up] Eddie Allen
[Hairstylist] Geraldine Cole

Film processing

[Special Optical Effects] Russell Collings

Music

Music by Max Steiner
Musical Director Leo F. Forbstein
Orchestral Arrangements Hugo Friedhofer

Sound

[Music Mixer] David Forrest
Sound by Oliver S. Garretson
Sound System RCA
[Re-recording/Effects Mixer] Gerald W. Alexander
[Re-recording/Effects Mixer] Robert G. Wayne

Consultant

Dialogue Director Herschel Daugherty

Publicity

[Publicity] John Mitchell