Who is Lynn Markham in Mildred Pierce / Female on the Beach?

Joan Crawford plays Lynn Markham in the film.

What is Mildred Pierce / Female on the Beach about?

MILDRED PIERCE, 1945, Warner Bros., 111 min. Dir. Michael Curtiz. Joan Crawford gives her signature performance as James M. Cain's ultimate maternal martyr, in thrall to her own femme fatale daughter, Veda (Ann Blyth). The twisted combination of high-strung soap opera and hard-edged pulp produced what may be the greatest Hollywood melodrama of all time. FEMALE ON THE BEACH, 1955, Universal, 97 min. Dir. Joseph Pevney. Joan Crawford is back on the Santa Monica beach in this deliriously over-the-top mystery-melodrama, featuring some of the most outrageous double entendre dialogue ever heard in a Hollywood movie. Something very weird happened to the previous owner of the beach house in which Joan is having a hot and heavy dalliance with sailor-stud Jeff Chandler. Are neighbors Jan Sterling and Cecil Kellaway involved?

Mildred Pierce / Female on the Beach

Name: Mildred Pierce / Female on the Beach
Genre: Drama,Romance
Rating: 47

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Who directed Mildred Pierce / Female on the Beach?: Joseph Pevney

Who is Lynn Markham in Mildred Pierce / Female on the Beach?: Joan Crawford plays Lynn Markham in the film.

What is Mildred Pierce / Female on the Beach about?: MILDRED PIERCE, 1945, Warner Bros., 111 min. Dir. Michael Curtiz. Joan Crawford gives her signature performance as James M. Cain's ultimate maternal martyr, in thrall to her own femme fatale daughter, Veda (Ann Blyth). The twisted combination of high-strung soap opera and hard-edged pulp produced what may be the greatest Hollywood melodrama of all time.

FEMALE ON THE BEACH, 1955, Universal, 97 min. Dir. Joseph Pevney. Joan Crawford is back on the Santa Monica beach in this deliriously over-the-top mystery-melodrama, featuring some of the most outrageous double entendre dialogue ever heard in a Hollywood movie. Something very weird happened to the previous owner of the beach house in which Joan is having a hot and heavy dalliance with sailor-stud Jeff Chandler. Are neighbors Jan Sterling and Cecil Kellaway involved?