Though the Breen office greatly impaired the art of American filmmaking it was possible to adhere to their specific revisions without completely compromising the integrity of the project.

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    Producer Wald was matchless in his talent for keeping Breen at bay while adapting Mildred Pierce in such a way that the story still shocks for its cynical view of the American family and the national obsession with success at all costs.

Breen, Joseph. Letter to Jack Warner. Hollywood: Production Code Administration, 19 February 1945.