Joan Winfield

Mildred Pierce -- Whatever Veda wants, her mother, Mildred Pierce provides. Even if Mildred must end her marriage, climb atop the male-dominated business world and marry a wealthy man she doesn't love. 'I'll do anything,' Mildred says, but does anything include murder?

Lady Gangster -- An actress gets mixed up with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before she's sent to prison...

Jane Wyman ("Magnificent Obsession," "The Yearling," TV's "Falcon Crest") won an Academy Award for her moving portrayal of a deaf mute who lives in a remote Nova Scotia fishing village. After learning sign language from a compassionate doctor, she is raped by a local bully and gives birth to an illegitimate son, Johhny Belinda. When the rapist returns to claim his son, she fights to keep him. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Story and Cinematography. Agnes Moorehead (TV's "Bewitched," "Citizen Kane") plays Wyman's unsympathetic sister and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Charles Bickford ("The Song of Bernadette," TV's "The Virginian") received on Oscar nomination as Wyman's stoic fisherman father. Lew Ayres' ("All Quiet on the Western Front") sensitive portrayal of the compassionate doctor caught in the crossfire earned an Oscar nomination. A monumental cinematic achievement.

Belinda is a deaf mute who is learning sign language and lip reading from Dr. Richardson. One night she is raped by Locky, and when Locky and his wife come for the baby, Belinda shoots Locky and is put on trial for murder.