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WARREN BEATTY (March 30, 1937) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Doris Day is very happy that she found all of her Easter eggs. And she even found a little rabbit friend. Isn't he cute? Vera-Ellen looks very cute as an Easter bunny. Though I'm pretty sure bunnies don't come out of eggs... Here she is again with Mr. Easter Bunny. He looks a bit grumpy, doesn't he? Debbie Reynolds is more than ready to celebrate Easter. Paula Prentriss looks lovely posing with her bunny friend. Love her dress! Susan Hayward and her teddy bunny. Angie Dickinson gets in the Easter spirit.  Shirley Temple coloring her Easter eggs.  Pier Angeli had done a great job decorating her eggs. Look how gorgeous they are! Loretta Young looks just a tiny bit uncomfortable dressed as a Easter bunny. Ann Miller is very pleased with herself that she found a little bunny. Guess what she did with the bunny.  "Easter Gree" from Jean Arthur. Don't people ever finish their sentences?

In honor of Joan Crawford's (probable) 112th birthday, which was on Wednesday, this week on "Film Friday" I bring you what is perhaps the most iconic of her films, the one that gave her the only Academy Award of her career. Theatrical release poster Directed by Michael Curtiz, Mildred Pierce (1945) is the story of the eponymous housewife and mother (Joan Crawford), who devote s herself solely to her two daughters: snobbish Veda (Ann Blyth) and sweet-natured Kay (Jo Ann Marlowe) . Mildred's principal goal is to pr o vide for Veda, who craves for possessions her mother cannot aff ord and social sta tus above that of her family . After her husband Bert (Bruce Bennett) loses his job, they quar rel frequently and he eventually moves out to be with his mistress, Maggie Biederh off (Lee Patrick ). Faced with a stack of bills, Mildred takes a job as a waitress. When Veda ridicules her mother for what she does for a living , even though this work has paid for he