tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post4598704272873258933..comments2024-03-24T21:42:48.278-04:00Comments on Another Old Movie Blog: Mildred Pierce - 1945Jacqueline T. Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-19143296217386682062012-07-13T20:13:48.269-04:002012-07-13T20:13:48.269-04:00I love this: " I have a feeling little Miss V...I love this: " I have a feeling little Miss Veda was a sociopath waiting to bloom." Could be. Some are born to greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them.<br /><br />And yes, the Carol Burnett parody of "Mildred Fierce" is on YouTube. Have a good laugh.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-65774116775781281442012-07-13T17:13:01.633-04:002012-07-13T17:13:01.633-04:00Oh Jacqueline, I don't remember the Carol Burn...Oh Jacqueline, I don't remember the Carol Burnett parody - I'm going to see if I can find it on youtube. Why not, everything else is on there...<br /><br />I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post about a movie I haven't actually seen in many years. I was never a big Joan Crawford fan and Zachary Scott always gave me the creeps. He was such a slithering screen presence. A member of the 'oddball' hall of fame. One of these days I'll have to do a post about what I consider those 'oddball' actors who are neither fish nor fowl. Ha!<br /><br />We spoiled our daughter rotten and yet she didn't grow up to kill anyone. I have a feeling little Miss Veda was a sociopath waiting to bloom.<br /><br />I do love Jack Carson. Had forgotten he was in this. And who COULDN'T love Eve Arden. Hmmm, maybe I need to see this just one more time.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-91792043029153037782012-07-11T15:24:29.892-04:002012-07-11T15:24:29.892-04:00Panavia, I'm with you on Zachary Scott and Jac...Panavia, I'm with you on Zachary Scott and Jack Carson, two of my favorites. <br /><br />And you actually have a gun in your desk drawer. That was a gift from Mother. All I can say is, please tell me you have a highball in your other hand and Eve Arden screening your phone calls. That would make the image complete for me.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-25260887069890927652012-07-11T14:56:15.243-04:002012-07-11T14:56:15.243-04:00I do have a .38 special in my desk drawer! Howeve...I do have a .38 special in my desk drawer! However, it's not loaded and the bullets are kept elsewhere. (My mother gave me the revolver.)<br />Mildred Pierce is a movie that I watch over and over just because it is visually so good. After you know every line of dialogue, there is always something to see. <br />Besides, it has Zachary Scott and Jack Carson and I never tire of watching them.panavia999https://www.blogger.com/profile/12022750065016664499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-28826821647205568552012-07-11T06:28:52.684-04:002012-07-11T06:28:52.684-04:00Welcome, Paperpopsong and thanks for commenting. ...Welcome, Paperpopsong and thanks for commenting. You make a good point about the adulterers getting away with it. Still, I'm guessing even that wouldn't have bothered the censors as much as Mildred choking the stuffing out of her naked daughter. Once they dumped that scene, I imagine the idea to film the rest of the story as written began to unravel.<br /><br />Joan Crawford choking a naked Ann Blyth certainly would have been, as Jane Austen might say, "Excessively diverting."<br /><br />The matching couch and drapes is something I've noticed for years in my fascination for the mundane. The power of suggestion being what it is, you're right, you're probably always going to catch it from now on. Have fun.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-74731420538285267192012-07-11T01:24:12.967-04:002012-07-11T01:24:12.967-04:00I have no idea who first thought up the noir idea,...I have no idea who first thought up the noir idea, but it doesn't seem so far-fetched once you realize that Mildred Pierce, as written, could never have been filmed in 1945--the fact that the adulterers never get their comeuppance would never have gotten past the Breen Office! I imagine the screenwriters got together and tried to envision a punishment for them that the Breen Office would approve of--surely death and conviction for murder would be hard to argue with, right? And from there it's just a hop, skip and a jump to noir . . .<br /><br />This is one of my favorite old films. Thanks for your post on it (and the one on matching couches and drapes, which is one of those things that I've never noticed in a movie before, but now that it's been pointed out, I'll never be able to unsee it!).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-8107818333623760952012-07-09T09:53:15.007-04:002012-07-09T09:53:15.007-04:00That's "Canadian" not "Candadia...That's "Canadian" not "Candadian". I also found an extra "D" in my desk drawer.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-35192828884170652012012-07-09T09:52:03.138-04:002012-07-09T09:52:03.138-04:00Welcome, Pearl and Liam, and thank you very much. ...Welcome, Pearl and Liam, and thank you very much. I also found a Canadian two-dollar coin in my drawer. Things are looking up.<br /><br />Speaking of things Candadian, CW I'm glad to see there is so much hope for the younger generation regarding the classics. Another scene I loved was when Carson, running about the beach house in a panic, knocks over the standing lamp, which falls to the floor. We follow it down to where it plunks next to Zachary Scott's body. That's how he discovers the body. Another perfect bit of choreography like a dance.<br /><br />Thank you, Lucie. "Casablanca" was another Curtiz-directed film, so there's a lot of the same technique. I really admire his eye for composition.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-25337927671622424632012-07-09T08:35:57.030-04:002012-07-09T08:35:57.030-04:00Wonderful treatise on Mildred Pierce! I especiall...Wonderful treatise on Mildred Pierce! I especially relished your description of B&W as a "medium." I'll have to put it in my arsenal for the next time someone yawns at Casablanca's lack of color--particularly the Sharpie bit.LucieWickfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17734638254779469066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-27852560586038523552012-07-09T08:22:17.905-04:002012-07-09T08:22:17.905-04:00Bess Flowers in your vacation video - Ha! Of cour...Bess Flowers in your vacation video - Ha! Of course she was.<br /><br />It's not the story, it's in the telling is so true of "Mildred Pierce". How else to explain the almost hypnotic hold that film has on me? Haller brings you right into those rooms and the hearts of those characters. I loved this perspective on a truly classic film.<br /><br />Side note: A couple of months ago I had a phone call from my daughter between classes wanting to know the name of the movie with the "awful daughter". It had been a matter of discussion with classmates. There is hope for the future generation!Caftan Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936895555808823221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092350404895325373.post-56609034734843846862012-07-09T08:05:31.784-04:002012-07-09T08:05:31.784-04:00This is one of our favourite old movies. A very we...This is one of our favourite old movies. A very well written review. Our desk drawers aren't that interesting either. In fact, I don't any drawers in out whole house have anything very interesting in them.<br />Great Review of a Great Classic<br /><br />Pearl and Liam<br />http://goodbadmovieblog.blogspot.co.uk/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com