Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

* Mildred Pierce ( 1945 )

The decade probably also saw the so-called " women's pictures ", such as Now, Voyager, Random Harvest and Mildred Pierce at the peak of their popularity.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

Her first starring role at the studio, in the title role as Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), revived her career and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.

After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce ( film ) | Mildred Pierce ( 1945 )

Crawford wanted to play the title role in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), but Bette Davis was the studio's first choice.

Mildred Pierce was a resounding critical and commercial success.

The same year, Davis refused the title role in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), a role for which Joan Crawford won an Academy Award, and instead made The Corn Is Green ( 1945 ) based on a play by Emlyn Williams.

Mildred Pierce is a 1941 hardboiled novel by James M. Cain.

* Mildred Pierce – middle-class mother of two

In the file for Mildred Pierce, neither Bette Davis nor Barbara Stanwyck's names are mentioned for the role at any stage.

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* James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce ( ungrateful daughter )

However, his novel Mildred Pierce ( 1941 ) is really about the rise to success of an ordinary housewife developing her entrepreneurial skills and — legally — outsmarting her business rivals, and the domestic trouble caused by her success, with, in turn, her husband, her daughter and her lover turning against her.

When film director Michael Curtiz adapted Mildred Pierce for the big screen in 1945, he lived up to the cinemagoers ' and the producers ' expectations by adding a murder that is not in the novel.

Mildred initially denies knowledge of what happened to Clarisse, then tells Montag exactly what happened to her: Clarisse was run over by a speeding car and, once her family heard the news about her death, they packed up and moved away, all of which happened four days ago.

Mildred refuses and doesn't believe that Montag is really sick ( even when Montag vomits on the rug from the stench of kerosene -- which earlier was like a perfume to him -- Mildred is only concerned about whether or not the vomit stain will come out in the wash ).

A few days after their first meeting, she disappears without any explanation, although Mildred tells Montag ( and Captain Beatty confirms ) that Clarisse was hit by a speeding car and that her family left following her death.

Three siblings died before becoming adults: his full sister Mildred died when she was about one, his half-brother Butler died while an infant, and his half-sister Jane died at the age of 12, when George was about 2.

Before the wedding, Mildred confessed that she had had an affair while he was away in the Army.

He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue ( née Noel ) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company.

In the final series, however it was clear that their cheerfulness was a façade and, in a particularly dark scene, Mildred hung herself " during a game of Happy Families ".

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the son of Mildred Carolyn " Millie " ( née Armstrong ) and Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Jr. His father was a lawyer and a U. S. fighter pilot who served in the China Burma India Theater of World War II.

McVeigh was born in Lockport, New York, the only son and the second of three children of William and Mildred " Mickey " McVeigh.

Ruby and her brother Byron were raised by their elder sister Mildred, who was five years older than Ruby.

Three years later, on 21 December 1546 he married Mildred Cooke, who was ranked by Ascham with Lady Jane Grey as one of the two most learned ladies in the kingdom, and whose sister, Anne, became the wife of Sir Nicholas ( and later the mother of Sir Francis ) Bacon.

Benjamin McLane Spock was born May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut ; his parents were Benjamin Ives Spock, a Yale graduate and long-time general counsel of the New Haven Railroad, and Mildred Louise Stoughton Spock.

Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson ( July 10, 1905 – May 28, 2002 ) was an American journalist and author of children's books, in particular the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries.

Benson was born Mildred Augustine in Ladora, Iowa to Lillian and Dr. J. L.

Rick Wakeman was born on 18 May 1949 in the west London suburb of Northolt to Cyril Frank and Mildred Helen Wakeman.

It was directed by Leo McCarey and written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram.

Love Affair was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing, Original Story ( Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey ), Best Original Song ( Buddy G. DeSylva, For the song " Wishing "), and Best Art Direction ( Van Nest Polglase, Alfred Herman ).

As the shrewish Mildred in Of Human Bondage ( 1934 film ) | Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), Davis was acclaimed for her dramatic performance.

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Fredric March ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Kevin McCarthy ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Mildred Dunnock ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

Mildred Dunnock was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1953.

She has also returned to television, playing the supporting role of Queen Sophie-Anne on True Blood from 2009 to 2011 and playing Kate Winslet's daughter in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, a role for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

The film's writers, Mildred Gordon, Gordon Gordon, and Bill Walsh, were nominated by the Writers Guild of America for Best Written American Comedy.

Her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.