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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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Summary

Gothic drama starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Former movie star sisters "Baby Jane" and Blanche Hudson live alone in a decaying Hollywood mansion. Blanche, now confined to a wheelchair, is at the mercy of the increasingly demented and sadistic Jane.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Alan Jones

This innovative and much imitated chiller set the trend for ageing Hollywood divas to revive their careers by playing unhinged maniacs - but no one beats Bette Davis or Joan Crawford in the snarl-and-shriek department. Here, the former queens of Hollywood play actress sisters divided by age-old Tinseltown resentments, with Davis's grotesquely made-up former child star "Baby" Jane Hudson torturing her paralysed sister Blanche (Crawford). The on-screen fireworks were reportedly fuelled by off-screen hatred, but the chemistry between the stars is unquestionably hair-raising and upped the Gothic stakes to camp shock levels. On a more serious note, this Grand Guignol-style Sunset Blvd deals with the frightening decay of illusions by cleverly incorporating both actresses' earlier work into the psychodrama.

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Cast

rolenameJane HudsonBette DavisBlanche HudsonJoan CrawfordEdwin FlaggVictor BuonoMrs BatesAnna LeeElvira StittMaidie NormanDella FlaggMarjorie BennettLiza BatesBarbara D MerrillRay HudsonDave Willock Cora HudsonAnn BartonYoung JaneJulie AllredYoung BlancheGina Gillespie

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rolenameDirectorRobert Aldrich

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Theatrical distributor

Park Circus

Released on

2012-12-14

Languages

English

Guidance

Contains violence.

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Black and white

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