![]() After trying her hand at all kinds of jobs, including waitressing, she finally succeeds in opening her own diner and very soon is the proud owner of three restaurants. ![]() ![]() Frustrated by her unemployed, penniless, apathetic and fatalistic husband, Mildred Pierce, despite the Depression, sets out to realize her own American Dream by becoming the breadwinner of the family - she bakes beautiful and delicious cakes for the people in their neighbourhood - and, soon afterwards, by ejecting her unfaithful husband and caring for their two daughters as a single mother, regaining her self-esteem on the way. Mildred Pierce, which is set in and around Los Angeles in the 1930s, depicts the life of an American self-made businesswoman. a feature film ( Michael Curtiz US, 1945) starring Joan Crawford which is based upon this novel. ![]()
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