CIVIC THEATRE
•*> "Mildred Pierce," starring .Toau Crawford and Jack Carson, skillfully probes the wounds suffcrcd by a courageous woman at the hands' of an unkind fatc . . . Joan Crawford is at her best in the title role, as a much-harrassed, muchmaligned woman, whose path is boset by the most agonising pitfall of all — ingratitude . . ."Mildred Pierce" is three-ways great. As a description of mother-love, it is affecting and poignant. It is fascinating, too, as a sharp and accurate analysis of the soul of a heel. And it is a tense, grippipg, superiof-calibre murder mystery. *
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1947, Page 2
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93CIVIC THEATRE Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1947, Page 2
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