WHY: Mildred Pierce

“Do you know the best room I was ever in?... It’s that den of yours, or Bert’s, rather, over in Glendale. Everything in that room meant something to that guy. Those banquettes, those foolish-looking blueprints of houses that’ll never be built – they do things to you. Because it’s all a part of him. And that’s why the room is good. And do you know the worst room I was ever in?... It’s that living room of yours, right in the same house. Not one thing in it- until that piano came – ever meant a thing to you, or him, or anybody else. A home isn’t meant to be a museum full of Picasso paintings or oriental rugs, like this place used to be. It’s meant to be furnished with things that actually matter. Let’s have this place the way we want it. If you don’t like the Pie Wagon corner, I do.” – from “Mildred Pierce”