Mildred Pierce (1945)

Mildred Pierce has everything a classic melodrama requires: a rags-to-riches storyline, family tensions, trouble in love. Film noir elements heighten the atmosphere of tension as Joan Crawford tears up the silver screen as Mildred, a single mother struggling valiantly to satisfy her outrageously bratty daughter Veda (one of cinema’s all-time greatest villains) and run her own business. Branded ‘box office poison’ at the end of the 1930s, Mildred Pierce was Joan’s comeback vehicle, won her an Academy Award, and helped to cement her status as a gay icon.

Screening as part of Broadway's Too Much: Melodrama on Film season (see also event for All That Heaven Allows on 4th November)

We will meet in the lobby just before the film, then go for a drink in the café bar afterwards. I will message details on how to recognise me on the day.