Director's Note

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This madcap, bizarre comedy introduces Mildred Wild to the world. Mildred Wild and her husband Roy have lived in the tiny quarters behind their candy store in Greenwich Village for 23 years. They have shared this space with Mildred's 40-year collection of movie magazines and paraphernalia. When the outside world intrudes upon her through her landlady's seduction of her husband and the imminent destruction of her home and store through urban renewal, she escapes into her world of movies. Mildred addresses, the outside world through Gone With the Wind, King Kong, The Invisible Man, a Shirley Temple movie, and, finally, her own dream of the future for Roy and herself all adding to the merriment and, ultimately, to poignancy which fills the production and its kooky, lovable, and totally enchanting heroine, Mildred Wild.