Bruised and bleeding, our hero Mildred tells her mother not to report the beating she suffered at her husband's hands, as to not tarnish the inspirational image she has spent her life building. The film takes this sentiment to heart, never stopping to give any injustice time to sit before Mildred Burke is bathed in more radient light. Biographical films by nature will always be more shallow than the lives they are based on, but I feel the pacing glossed…
