Though screenwriter Catherine Turney had done the principle work on the Mildred Pierce screenplay she opted not to receive credit after all of the revisions the Breen office insisted on.

    In this memo Wald attempts to placate censor and screenwriter simultaneously. He asks for the requested cuts while indicating his irritation with Breen that both he and Turney share. Other screenwriters who worked on the script included Ranald MacDougall, who received full credit and an Oscar nomination for the screenplay, and William Faulkner, then a contract writer at Warner’s.