Mildred Pierce Mildred Pierce Mildred Pierce is a 1941 hardboiled novel by James M. Cain. It was made into an Academy Award–winning film of the same name in 1945, starring Joan Crawford, and a 2011 Emmy Award–winning miniseries of the same name, starring Kate Winslet. Set in Glendale, California, in the 1930s, the book is the story of a middle-class housewife, Mildred Pierce, and her attempts to maintain her family's social position during the Great Depression. Mildred separates from Bert, her unemployed husband, and sets out to support herself and her children. After a difficult search she finds a job as a
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program The Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program is a category of the Daytime Emmy Awards dedicated to the court show genre. It was first introduced in 2008. Previously, court shows were grouped miscellaneously in the talk show category. In its first season, "Cristina's Court" became the first winner in this category in 2008. "Last Shot with Judge Gunn" won the award in 2012, only one season into its run. "Last Shot" is the first nontraditional courtroom series to receive the award. In 2013, "Judge Judy" won the award for the first time, making