..And you going o tell us what happens when we get there?"Possibly feeling threatened by Driscoll""s growing crush on his actress-heroine, Denham suspects that the crew member has been emasculated and gone "soft" and "sappy" over Ann""s Beauty.However, the strange atmosphere of the locale ""exaggerated"" their increasing number of problems and exotic urgings that they could not understand, repress, control or overcome.BackgroundMildred Pierce(1945) is a classic, post-warfilm noirmixed with typical soap-operish elements of the woman""s melodramatic picture or "weeper," including a strand of a typical murder mystery often told by flashback.They don""t even have snow anymore.Miss Copeland attempted to offer a compliment about Carlotta""s acting years earlier, but Carlotta wasn""t interested in dwelling on the past.