Zachary Scott

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?

A serviceman and a starlet find love at the star-staffed serviceman's center.

Academy Award-winner Joan Crawford ("Mildred Pierce," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?") stars as a dancer in a traveling circus. Stranded in a corrupt Southern town, she becomes involved with two men, a weakling who betrays her and a corrupt political boss. She is eventually framed for murder by a crooked sheriff, played by Oscar-nominee Sydney Greenstreet ("Casablanca," "The Maltese Falcon"). Co-starring Zachary Scott ("Cass Timberlane") and David Brian ("How the West Was Won"). Directed by Academy Award-winner Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca," "Yankee Doodle Dandy") and produced by Oscar-winner Jerry Wald ("Mildred Pierce," "Peyton Place"). Spawned a TV movie and a CBS series.

Jerry Lewis stars in this slapstick romp as a bumbling television repairman named Lester March. March fantasizes about being a detective and gets a chance to play gumshoe when he learns of a missing heir to the Albright electronics empire. But when everyone realizes that he looks just like the heir, March suddenly finds himself in danger when the Albrights' greedy attorney (Zachary Scott) decides to kill him so he'll inherit the money himself.