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1962 picture show by Robert Aldrich

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Theatrical release poster
Directed past Robert Aldrich
Screenplay by Lukas Heller
Based on What Ever Happened to Infant Jane?
by Henry Farrell
Produced by Robert Aldrich
Starring
  • Bette Davis
  • Joan Crawford
Cinematography Ernest Haller
Edited by Michael Luciano
Music by Frank De Vol

Product
visitor

Seven Arts Productions
Distributed past Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date
  • October 31, 1962 (1962-10-31)

Running time

 134 minutes[i]
Country Us
Language English language
Budget $980,000[2]
Box office $9.5 million[3]

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological horror-thriller flick directed and produced past Robert Aldrich, from a screenplay by Lukas Heller, based on the 1960 novel of the same name past Henry Farrell. The pic stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and features the major film debut of Victor Buono. It follows an aging former kid star tormenting her paraplegic sis, a former motion-picture show star, in an old Hollywood mansion.[4] [5] [6]

What E'er Happened to Baby Jane? was theatrically released in the United States on October 31, 1962, past Warner Bros. Pictures. The flick was met with disquisitional acclaim and was a box function success. It was nominated for five Academy Awards and won ane for All-time Costume Design, Blackness-and-White, with Davis receiving her tenth and last nomination for Best Actress.

The intensely bitter Hollywood rivalry between the film's two stars, Davis and Crawford, was heavily important to the film's initial success.[7] This in part led to the revitalization of the careers of the two stars. In the years after release, critics continued to acclaim the film for its psychologically driven black comedy, camp, and cosmos of the psycho-biddy subgenre.[vii] [viii] The film'south novel and controversial plot meant that it originally received an Ten rating in the U.Chiliad.[i] Because of the appeal of the film's stars, Dave Itzkoff in The New York Times has identified information technology as being a "cult classic".[9] In 2003, the character of Baby Jane Hudson was ranked No. 44 on the American Film Institute'south list of the 50 All-time Villains of American Cinema.[10]

In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United states National Motion picture Registry by the Library of Congress as beingness "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[xi]

Plot [edit]

In 1917, "Baby Jane" Hudson is a spoiled and capricious kid actress who performs in vaudeville theatres across the state with her begetter, who acts as her manager and accompanies her on stage on the pianoforte. Her success is such that a line of porcelain dolls is made in her paradigm. Meanwhile, her shy older sister Blanche lives in her shadow and is treated with contempt by the haughty Jane. As the sisters pass boyhood, their situations undergo a reversal; Jane's way of performing falls out of style, and her career declines equally she descends into alcoholism, while Blanche becomes an acclaimed Hollywood actress. Mindful of a promise made to their mother, Blanche attempts to maintain a semblance of a career for Jane, going as far as to impose on producers to guarantee a number of acting roles for her. One evening in 1935, Blanche'south career is cutting short when she is paralyzed from the waist down in a mysterious car accident that is unofficially blamed on Jane, who is found three days afterwards in a drunken stupor.

By 1962, Blanche and Jane are living together in a mansion purchased with Blanche's picture earnings. Blanche's mobility is limited due to her reliance on a wheelchair and the lack of an elevator to her upstairs bedroom. Jane, psychotic and resentful of Blanche's success, regularly mistreats Blanche and prepares to revive her sometime act with hired pianist Edwin Flagg. When Blanche informs Jane she intends to sell the house, Jane rightly suspects Blanche will commit her to a psychiatric hospital one time the business firm is sold. She removes the telephone from Blanche'south bedroom, cutting her off from the exterior world. During Jane's absence, Blanche desperately drags herself downwards the stairs and calls her doctor for help. Jane returns to find Blanche on the phone and beats her unconscious before mimicking Blanche's voice to dismiss the doctor. After tying Blanche to her bed and locking her in her room, Jane abruptly fires their housekeeper, Elvira, when she comes to work. While Jane is away, the suspicious Elvira sneaks into the firm and attempts to access Blanche's room. Concerned by the lack of a response, Elvira tries to break open the door with a hammer. Jane returns habitation and reluctantly gives Elvira the primal. As soon as Elvira enters Blanche'due south room, Jane takes the hammer and kills Elvira.

A few days later, the police call to tell Jane that Elvira'south cousin has reported her missing. Jane panics and prepares to leave, taking Blanche with her. Before they can exit, an inebriated Edwin is escorted to the house by police and discovers Blanche bound to her bed. Edwin flees and notifies the government. Jane, in a fit of infantile regression, takes Blanche to a embankment where she sang as a child, attracting the attending of nearby beachgoers. Blanche — lying starved, dehydrated, and near death on a blanket — tells the real story of the car accident to salve Jane of guilt, saying she is paraplegic through her own fault: On the night of the accident, Blanche tried to run Jane over because she was angry at Jane for mocking her at a party earlier that nighttime. Blanche's spine broke when her car struck the atomic number 26 gates exterior their mansion, and she dragged herself in forepart of the car'due south hood to stage the accident and frame Jane. Blanche took advantage of Jane'southward daze and subsequent bender, removing the real dynamics of the blow from her listen, and subjected Jane to a life of guilt, loneliness, and servitude. Now aware of the truth, Jane sadly states that the sisters could have been friends. Later Jane gets ice foam for herself and Blanche from a nearby kiosk, she is recognized by 2 police officers, who ask her to lead them to Blanche. Jane dodges the officers' inquiry and dances before a crowd of bemused onlookers, while the officers observe Blanche and blitz to ostend her condition.

Bandage [edit]

  • Bette Davis every bit Jane Hudson
    • Julie Allred as nine-year-old Jane
    • Debbie Burton as young Jane's singing voice
  • Joan Crawford as Blanche Hudson
    • Gina Gillespie every bit thirteen-year-one-time Blanche
  • Victor Buono as Edwin Flagg
  • Marjorie Bennett as Dehlia Flagg
  • Maidie Norman as Elvira Stitt
  • Anna Lee as Mrs. Bates
  • B. D. Merrill as Liza Bates
  • Dave Willock as Ray Hudson
  • Anne Barton as Cora Hudson (credited every bit Ann Barton)
  • Wesley Addy as Marty McDonald
  • Robert Cornthwaite every bit Doc Shelby
  • Maxine Cooper every bit Banking concern Teller
  • Bert Freed as Ben Golden
  • Ernest Anderson every bit Ernie the water ice-foam vendor[12]
  • William Aldrich equally Lunch Counter Assistant at Embankment
  • Russ Conway as Police Officer
  • Michael Fox as TV Commercial Man
  • Don Ross as Police force Officeholder
  • James Seay as Police Officer
  • John Shay as Police Officer
  • Jon Shepodd equally Police force Officeholder
  • Peter Virgo as Law Officeholder

Product [edit]

Bette Davis (left) every bit Infant Jane Hudson and Joan Crawford equally her sister, Blanche Hudson

The house exterior of the Hudson mansion is located at 172 South McCadden Place in the neighborhood of Hancock Park, Los Angeles. Other residential exteriors evidence cottages on DeLongpre Artery near Harvard Avenue in Hollywood without their current gated courtyards. The scene on the beach was filmed virtually Aldrich's beach firm in Malibu, the same site where Aldrich filmed the last scene of Kiss Me Deadly (1955). The embankment house's exterior is briefly visible during the moving picture'southward final scenes.

Footage from the Bette Davis films Parachute Jumper and Ex-Lady (both 1933) and the Joan Crawford picture Sadie McKee (1934) was used to represent the picture acting of Jane and Blanche, respectively.

The graphic symbol of Liza, Mrs. Bates' daughter, was played past Davis's existent-life daughter B. D. Merrill.

In a 1972 phone chat, Crawford told author Shaun Considine that subsequently seeing the moving picture she urged Davis to go and have a wait. When she failed to hear back from her co-star, Crawford called Davis and asked her what she thought of the film. Davis replied, "You were so right, Joan. The pic is good. And I was terrific." Crawford said, "That was it. She never said anything most my performance. Not a word."[13]

During the filming of Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), Crawford best-selling to visiting reporter and author Lawrence J. Quirk the difficulty she was having with Davis because of the Oscar incident,[ clarification needed ] just added, "She acted similar Baby Jane was a ane-woman show afterwards they nominated her. What was I supposed to do? Let her hog all the glory, deed like I hadn't even been in the moving-picture show? She got the nomination. I didn't begrudge her that, but it would have been prissy if she'd been a little gracious in interviews and given me a little credit. I would've washed so for her."[14]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Gimmicky reviews were mixed. In a more often than not negative review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther observed, "[Davis and Crawford] practise get off some amusing and eventually claret-chilling displays of screaming sororal hatred and general monstrousness ... The feeble attempts that Mr. Aldrich has made to suggest the irony of two in one case idolized and wealthy females living in such depravity, and the desolation of their deep-seated envy having brought them to this, wash out very quickly under the inundation of sheer grotesquerie. There is zilch moving or peculiarly significant nigh these two."[xv] Philip Yard. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times too panned the picture show, writing that Crawford and Davis had been turned into "grotesque caricatures of themselves" and that the film "mocks non simply its characters just as well the sensibilities of its audience."[16] The Chicago Tribune wrote, "This isn't a movie, it'southward a caricature. Bette Davis' brand-up could very well have been washed by Charles Addams, Joan Crawford's perils make those of Pauline look like good, clean fun and the plot piles one fantastic twist upon another until it all becomes nonsensical."[17] Brendan Gill of The New Yorker was somewhat negative as well, calling the picture show "far from existence a Hitchcock—it goes on and on, in a low-cal much dimmer than necessary, and the climax, when it belatedly arrives, is a bungled, languid mingling of pursuers and pursued which put me in mind of Terminal Year at Marienbad. Yet, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford do get a gamble to comport on similar mad things, which at least 1 of them is supposed to exist."[18]

Amongst the positive reviews, Variety stated that later a dull and overlong introduction the film became "an emotional toboggan ride," adding, "Although the results heavily favor Davis (and she earns the credit), it should be recognized that the plot, of necessity, allows her to run unfettered through all the stages of oncoming insanity ... Crawford gives a quiet, remarkably fine interpretation of the crippled Blanche, held in emotionally past the nature and temperament of the part."[nineteen] Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post likewise liked the moving picture, writing that "Miss Davis has the showiest role and bites into it with all her admired strength, looking a fright from head to foot. I doubt if she would regret some of the laughs she gets. She plays for them and psychologically, they are needed. If Miss Crawford has the passive role, that is not without rewards. Suffering is i of her particular gifts."[20] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that numerous directorial techniques, including all the plunging shots down the staircase, fabricated the flick expect "rather similar an anthology of the oldest and nigh hackneyed devices in thrillerdom. And withal, in its curious Gothic fashion, the pic works marvelously, though mainly as a field-twenty-four hour period for its actors."[21]

In Sight & Audio, Peter John Dyer stated that the moving-picture show had "a frequent air of incompetence," writing of Aldrich's direction that "Like some textbook student of Hitchcock who never got beyond Blackmail, he dispenses suspense with ham-fisted conventionality." Dyer did praise the performances of the leads, however, finding that they seemed to accept found "a new maturity, a subject field encouraged perhaps by the confined sets and Crawford's wheelchair, or past the interaction of their professional rivalry upon a belated mutual respect."[22]

More recent assessments have been more uniformly positive. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an blessing rating of 92% based on 51 reviews, with an average rating of 7.91/ten. The site'south critical consensus reads, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? combines powerhouse interim, rich atmosphere, and arresting melodrama in service of a taut thriller with idea-provoking subtext."[23] On Metacritic, the flick has a weighted average score of 75 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[24]

In a retrospective review, Goggle box Guide awarded the pic 4 stars, calling it "Star wars, trenchantly served" and adding, "If it sometimes looks like a poisonous senior citizen show with over-the-superlative spoiled ham, just try to await away ... As in the all-time Hitchcock movies, suspense, rather than actual commotion, drives the pic."[25]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Box office [edit]

The film was a box office hit, grossing $9 one thousand thousand in theatrical rentals in North America.[32] In adjusted grosses, What Ever Happened To Infant Jane? made an estimated $124 1000000 in 2019 dollars, making it the 20th highest-grossing film of the year and giving both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford their biggest hit in over a decade.[33]

In the United kingdom, the film was given an X certificate by the BBFC in 1962, with a few minor cuts. These cuts were waived for a video submission, which was given an 18 certificate in 1988, meaning no i nether xviii years of age could purchase a copy of the picture.[1] Withal, in 2004, the film was re-submitted for a theatrical re-release, and it was given a 12A document, now meaning persons under 12 years of historic period could view it if accompanied by an adult. It remains at this category to this day.[34]

Legacy [edit]

The film's success spawned a succession of horror/thriller films featuring psychotic older women, afterwards dubbed the psycho-biddy subgenre, among them Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, What E'er Happened to Aunt Alice?, and director Curtis Harrington's Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? and What's the Matter with Helen?. It was parodied past the Italian one-act moving-picture show What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? [35]

Shaun Considine'due south book Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (1989) chronicles the actresses' rivalry, including their experience shooting this film.[36]

One-act duo French and Saunders (Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French) created a BBC episode called "Whatever Happened to Baby Dawn?" on 22 March 1990.[37] French and Saunders also made a radio play about feuding sisters chosen "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen" in 2021.[38]

In 1991, the film was remade as a television film starring real-life sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave.[39]

In 2006, Christina Aguilera adopted a new modify ego called Infant Jane afterward Bette Davis' character in the film.[forty]

In Flavor 2, Episode four of RuPaul'south Drag Race All Stars, the drag queens' acting chops are tested in parody film sequels of RuPaul'south favourite films. A parody of ''What Ever Happened to Infant Jane?'' called ''Wha' Ha' Happened to Baby JJ?'' was made by Alaska and Alyssa Edwards.[41]

The backstage battle between Crawford and Davis during the production of the film is the footing for the 2017 miniseries Feud, which stars Jessica Lange equally Crawford and Susan Sarandon equally Davis and created past Ryan White potato.[42] [43]

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External links [edit]

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