How ‘Mildred Pierce’ stacks up to its predecessor
How ‘Mildred Pierce’ stacks up to its predecessor
James M. Cain (1892-1977), would-be opera singer and virtuoso of the vernacular, wrote some of the most unnerving romances in American fiction. In Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice, illicit lovers pledge devotion by conspiring to murder. In Mildred Pierce, they conspire to something possibly worse.
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From start to finish, she had presence
Elizabeth Taylor was all of 18 when she went to work for director George Stevens on A Place in the Sun, slipping into the role of Angela Vickers, the object of beauty and desire for Montgomery Clift’s doomed schmo – and, as it turned out, an object of beauty and desire for millions of moviegoers, too.
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