Those who recall that movie fondly are going to be surprised. The 1945 movie (the one for which Joan Crawford won her Oscar) runs just 109 minutes. With so many people now struggling in Mildred’s footsteps, it seems an apt choice of subject (even if pies are out of fashion).īut a mini-series, in five episodes and close to five hours of screen time? The new paperback of the Cain novel comes in under 300 pages, and it’s meant as a quick read. As with so much of Cain, this is a story about money and business-I think he was more interested in those things than in the sex that dogged his reputation. Cain novel (published in 1941) is attuned to our grim economy: It’s the story of a single mother in Glendale in 1931 who has to take a job as a waitress and who then builds it into a flourishing, modest restaurant trade, based on the pies she bakes at home. You can see why HBO thought to re-make Mildred Pierce, especially if it had Kate Winslet committed to playing the title part.
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