Cheers to Eve Arden, everyone's favorite best friend, on her birthday. See her with Joan Crawford in MILDRED PIERCE ('45) at 3:45pm ET. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Joan Crawford in her Academy Award Role Mildred Pierce 1945 🎥 My Mother, a Waitress! Scene Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American film noir crime-drama directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson and Zachary Scott, also featuring Eve Arden, Ann Blyth and Bruce Bennett.among them Butterfly McQueen {Prissy Gone with the Wind} Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain. This was Crawford's first starring film for Warner Bros. after leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and won her the Acade

Rent the film noir here: bit.ly/rentmildredpierce Ann Blyth and Joan Crawford in classic film Mildred Pierce (1945). Crawford won Best Actress—her only Oscar—for this performance as a single mother determined to raise her spoiled daughter comfortably and with a place in society. | DVD Netflix

Mildred (Joan Crawford) and daughter Veda (Ann Blyth) battle over ill-gotten gains in "Mildred Pierce" (1945). In movies, this is the slap heard round the world. | Midcentury Fashion