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Mildred Pierce by Albert J. Lavalley, Ranald MacDougall, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (1981, Hardcover) 
Mildred Pierce by Albert J. Lavalley, Ranald MacDougall, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (1981, Hardcover)
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Series: Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0299083705
ISBN-13: 9780299083700
Product ID: EPID79694
Description: Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philandering...
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Synopsis
Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philandering. In order to support her two children and herself, she begins working as a waitress, which she finds abhorrent. Eventually, after different profitable liaisons, she starts a restaurant chain. She is subsumed in her work, obsessed by it, defined by it--as she is by her relationship to her daughter Veda. She draws Veda's heightened resentment, because the girl loves her father deeply, and Veda ultimately betrays Mildred.

Details
Publication Date:1981-01-01
Series:Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series

Size
Length:259 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:16.0 oz

Publisher's Note
Albert J. La Valley's thorough and insightful guide to Mildred Pierce at once tells us much about the making of this complex film, the problems and process of transferring the story to the screen, the specific and important roles of the producer, director, and set designer, and how the film relates to broad trends within the industry.

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