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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological horror thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, from a screenplay by Lukas Heller, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Henry Farrell.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?: Directed by Robert Aldrich. With Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy. A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
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- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Robert Aldrich
- 1962-10-31
Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), also a former child actress. Stuck living together in a mansion in old...
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- Bette Davis
- Robert Aldrich
- Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
- Who Exactly Is Baby Jane?
- Upping The Gothic Melodrama Ante
- What About That Bette Davis-Joan Crawford Feud?
The film opens in 1917 and Baby Jane Hudson is an idolized Vaudeville theatre star who performs to a packed house while her proud-as-punch father cheers her on, much to the chagrin of the misty-eyed Blanche After performing a rendition of "I Wrote a Letter to Daddy" and getting presented with a creepy lifelike replica of herself (a recurring motif ...
The Gothic melodrama ups the ante with Baby Jane’s cruelty really escalating. Encompassing everything from fraud, embezzlement, starvation, pets, vermin for lunch, and murder. She also hires Edwin Flagg (Victor Buono), a grubby, money-hungry momma’s boy with a phony British accent who charms Jane. With an eye on the bottom line, he is more than wil...
It is a common misconception that Bette and Joan spent decades at loggerheads and were involved in a vicious rivalry. Their paths had crossed several times prior to the meeting on Baby Jane. During the filming of Dangerous in 1935,Bette had designs on her co-star Franchot Tone, but this was not reciprocated, and he married his then-fiancée Joan Cra...
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- Robert Aldrich
One night, they go to a party and there is a car accident. In 1962, Blanche is a crippled woman that has been left wheelchair-bound after the accident that lives with her alcoholic sister Baby Jane in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Feb 16, 2008 · The staircase should be billed along with the stars in Robert Aldrich ‘s “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” (1962). On a claustrophobic set, it dominates many shots, separating the upstairs captivity of the paraplegic Blanche from the downstairs lair of her deranged sister Jane.
