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2 days ago · At its core, this is a Joan Crawford melodrama wearing a Western costume – Mildred Pierce wearing a holster, but that’s what makes the movie so fascinating. Though the title character is Johnny Guitar, it’s Crawford’s Vienna who is stepping into Gary Cooper’s boots and leading the story, with Sterling Hayden’s Johnny serving as the ...
4 days ago · John Adams is a 2008 American television miniseries chronicling U.S. Founding Father and president John Adams 's political life and his role in the founding of the United States. The miniseries was directed by Tom Hooper and starred Paul Giamatti in the title role.
1 day ago · After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company , through her marriage to company president Alfred Steele .
2 days ago · The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Glass Key (1942) were based on novels by Hammett; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity (1944), Mildred Pierce (1945), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), and Slightly Scarlet (1956; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit).
3 days ago · But Palm Royale, Abe Sylvia’s comedy series about a woman infiltrating Palm Beach’s high society, ... “say one time you’re showing Mildred Pierce, the whole movie with Joan Crawford, then ...
3 days ago · Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) An LA story poised on the precipice between melodrama and noir, with an iconic Joan Crawford as the indefatigable single mother setting her cap at the ...
2 days ago · Burnett, of course, frequently satirized Hollywood classics on her 1967-78 CBS sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show — her sendups of Gone With the Wind and Mildred Pierce are classics in ...
