Having just watched Mildred Pierce a month ago to celebrate Crawford's Oscar winning turn a revisit wasn't fully necessary but given my love for the Hollywood classic I was not upset to revisit the film.

Joan Crawford the actress and the character Mildred Pierce are rightfully one in the same in my mind as both character and actress succeeding through great effort and repeated trying. Even when problems presented to both women they pushed through only achieving success. Crawford truly…

While the second half of the 1930's proved a difficult period in her career as Crawford played a variety of good meaning working girls pursued by richer men audiences supposedly lost interest in the once big Crawford so taking a supporting part in this ensemble heavy comedy surely was a risk yet one which totally paid off. The risk too was Crawford playing the first unlikeable role of "the Other Woman" who audiences going in were meant to root against…

Joan Crawford plays Anna Holm a female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman. Crawford starring in this American remake of the Ingrid Bergman earlier Swedish production is mesmorising. Crawford delivers such a fine dramatic performance balancing the regret feelings whilst reliving her past, the vengeance she takes during some tortorous experiences she has and ultimately Crawford brings life to this complex leading part.

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Joan Crawford plays Olivia Riley a nightclub dancer who marries into high society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law. Crawford like fellow stars of the 1930's had the unfair association with being labelled box office poison when the work she was producing was still stellar. As is the case with this fun romantic drama where Crawford again plays into the working girl turned possible rich wife she honestly plays Olivia as a flawed woman who is tested by…