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The Letter
Why this pick
Like Mildred Pierce, this is an elegant, tightly wound women-led melodrama in which social respectability, betrayal and a single concealed act steadily turn domestic life poisonous.
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MOVIE1945 1h 51m USA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Bruce Bennett
Albert 'Bert' Pierce
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Jack Carson
Wally Fay
Zachary Scott
Monte Beragon
Eve Arden
Ida Corwin
Ann Blyth
Veda Pierce Forrester
Lee Patrick
Maggie Biederhof
Moroni Olsen
Inspector Peterson