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May 18, 2023… #movieoftheday is Mildred Pierce (1945)
“Mildred Pierce is a psychological drama by James M. Cain published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1941.
A story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression , Mildred Pierce follows the trajectory of a lower-middle class divorcee with two children in her tragic struggle to achieve financial and personal success. The novel is one of four major works Cain wrote featuring opera as a key component in the plot ( Serenade (1937), Career in C Major (1938) and The Moth (1948) are the others.)
Mildred Pierce is Cain’s first effort to write a novel in the third-person narrative form, a departure from his earlier works of the 1930s, all of them confessional narratives written in the first-person ." - more at Wikipedia
A tragic story of success, the problems it can generate and a mother's unconditional love for her children.
#MildredPierce #wikipedia
“Mildred Pierce is a psychological drama by James M. Cain published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1941.
A story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression , Mildred Pierce follows the trajectory of a lower-middle class divorcee with two children in her tragic struggle to achieve financial and personal success. The novel is one of four major works Cain wrote featuring opera as a key component in the plot ( Serenade (1937), Career in C Major (1938) and The Moth (1948) are the others.)
Mildred Pierce is Cain’s first effort to write a novel in the third-person narrative form, a departure from his earlier works of the 1930s, all of them confessional narratives written in the first-person ." - more at Wikipedia
A tragic story of success, the problems it can generate and a mother's unconditional love for her children.
#MildredPierce #wikipedia
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