VL-IV p57 Mildred Pierce's husband, Bert

[Michael Bailey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Pierce

The title character is a hard-working, neurotically devoted,
long-suffering and determined mother who has a status seeking,
spoiled, detestable and mean-spirited, unloving daughter named Veda
(Ann Blyth). [Mirroring her real life, Joan Crawford supported herself
as a waitress and saleswoman before she began making films.] Mildred's
ruinous but noble downfall occurs as the result of poor choices of men
(including her dull, middle class broker husband Bert (Bruce Bennett))
and her caring for an ungrateful Veda.


- which is nothing at all like P & Z.  Except we know from the wedding
that his name is Bert.

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