Joan Crawford is MILDRED PIERCE – Playing May 10th at the Landmark Theatre’s Plaza Frontenac – RetroREPLAY ‘May is For Mothers’

“With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls.”

Landmark’s The Plaza Frontenac Theatre (210 Plaza Frontenac, in the Plaza Frontenac Shopping Center, Frontenac, MO, 63131) hosts RetroREPLAY Tuesdays. Tickets are only $7 and can be purchased in advance HERE. The RetroREPLAY for May 10th is Joan Crawford in the Oscar-winning 1945 classic MILDRED PIERCE. Showtimes ar 1pm and 7pm

When Mildred Pierce’s out-of-work husband leaves her for another woman, Mildred decides to raise her two daughters on her own. Despite Mildred’s financial successes in the restaurant business, her oldest daughter, Veda, resents her mother for degrading their social status. In the midst of a police investigation after the death of her second husband, Mildred must evaluate her own freedom and her complicated relationship with her daughter.