Joan Crawford breaks your heart in this tragic tale of a hardworking restaurant owner who sacrifices everything for an ungrateful materialist of a daughter. Desperate to support Veda’s social climbing, Mildred busts her ass while enduring constant verbal abuse from her daughter, who lies, cheats, and sleeps her way to the top. A truly wrenching portrait of class warfare destroying relationships, this is a cautionary tale to devoted mothers everywhere not to become doormats for spoiled brats. – Lina Fisher
