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Mildred Pierce is a 1941 hardboiled novel by James M. Cain. It was made into an Academy Award-winning 1945 film of the same name

Set in Glendale, California, in the 1930s, the book is the story of middle-class housewife Mildred Pierce's attempts to maintain her family's social position during the Great Depression.
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After a difficult search she finds a job as a waitress, but she worries that it is beneath her middle-class station. More than that, she worries that her ambitious and increasingly pretentious elder daughter, Veda, will think her new job demeaning.
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Veda enjoys her mother's newfound financial success but increasingly turns ungrateful, demanding more and more from her hard-working mother while openly condemning her and anyone who must work for a living.

Die Brücken am Fluß (Originaltitel: The Bridges of Madison County) ist ein Filmdrama von 1995. Die weibliche Hauptrolle spielt Meryl Streep.

Darin gehts um eine Hausfrau, die sich, als ihre Famillie für vier tage ausser Haus ist in einen Fotografen verliebt, der sie nach dem Weg zu der berühmten Rosemarie Brücke fragt, um diese zu fotografieren. Sie kommen sich näher, doch am Ende entscheidet sie sich gegen ihn und für ihre Familie.