What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Bette Davis, Joan Crawford

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Bette Davis, Joan Crawford | With Joan and Bette You Get Dynamite!!!!

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	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Bette Davis, Joan Crawford Warner Home Video, 1997 average customer review:based on 174 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Great Betty Davis, an Alcoholic Living on Memories

n an unforgettable film, Bette Davis portrays Baby Jane, a drunken, slovenly former child star brilliantly.

Baby Jane Hudson,Bette Davis' character had been an adored child singer and dancer. blond curls, frilly dresses, she is also daddy's favorite.

Her pretty dark haired sister Blanche watched with some envy as Baby Jane sang and curtsied before a wildly applauding audience.

Crawford plays sister Blanche Hudson, a talented actress who achieved enormous success as a talented film star, while sister Jane's former appeal is lost after childhood.

Kindly Blanche refuses offers in film unless Jane is also given a role. Jane's poor acting skills limit her from being in big demand.
The roles are reversed, Jane now envies Blanche.

Tragedy occurs one night in a car crash with the sisters leaving Blanche paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair.

This is where madness and irony set in.

Aging Jane boozes through the days caring for her sister and becoming more and more reckless.

Delusional and demented Jane decides to dust off her career as a ten year old singing sensation. She must practice, it has been at least sixty years since she'd last danced to that role of America's little sweetheart.

Spending money like mad she has original "little girl" costumes made up. She rehearses her old songs and even hires a pianist to accompany her singing. Neglected Blanche, sick and helpless in bed upstairs listens to the singing of Jane and Edwin.

Bette Davis keeps the suspense going as she descends into alcohol and madness and you don't even want to blink an eye in the anticipation of this great film.

Long since, a cult classic and the single movie in which the two mega stars appear together.

Highly recommended thriller.(probably not suited to everyone though)

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With Joan and Bette You Get Dynamite!!!!

The last great picture Joan Crawford ever did "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" is simply a classic and the 2 disc DVD is a must own!. Released in 1962 and nominated for multiple Oscars including one for Best Actress for Bette Davis, the film has gone down in movie history as the best in the Grand Guinol genre. More than a horror film the picture depicts the hatred between 2 sisters over many years, ultimately climaxing in an exciting finale. Joan Crawford is simply amazing as the helpless sister being harrased by her unbalanced sister played to perfection by Davis. It's quite a change for Crawford after playing evil women roles and Crawford pulls it off. You can't help but love both leading ladies in these parts. Crawford should have been nominated for an Oscar as well but was overlooked. Wonderful direction by Robert Aldrich, the movie also has a wonderful Supporting cast. The script is perfect and like the trailer says you have never seen Crawford or Davis in anything like this before. The movie also spawned the television movie of the same name in 1991 directed by Aldrich's son William starring Vannessa and Lynn Redgrave. It would be nice if this movie was put out on DVD because it too has become a classic and a hard to find film. Also knowing how much Crawford and Davis hated each other in real life makes watching this film that more enjoyable. They were also both to star in another film 2 years later but Crawford was let go because she was too ill.
The DVD set of the film is splendid. Picture and audio are prefect and the dics come with a slew of bonus features including the trailer, Bette singing the title song on the "Andy Williams" TV show the month after the film came out, and I think the crowning jewel in the set is a rare interview of Joan Crawford from British TV talking about the picture. You won't be dissapointed in buying this set!

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the best bette davis movie

Bette Davis is so unbelievably creepy & weird in this movie. What a phenominal actress. She NAILS her role as the aging & kooky washed up child star Baby Jane Hudson. (but Bette was always on point, wasn't she?) While i love many of her movies i am a huge fan of strange movies. The combination of Bette + Weird script = one of my favorite movies of all time.

Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!

Put a team of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and what do you get? Sheer genius!! This movie will have you sitting at the edge of your seats! This is a psycho-twisted movie and shows what can happen to a spoiled, aging movie actress who craves the spotlight again but is overshadowed by her older (?) sister's success! The rat on the plate for dinner was a scream (no pun intended)!

What was a surprise was Bette Davis singing her song of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" on the Andy Williams Show. Of course this was way before my time, but I had to chuckle when I saw her doing the Twist ... or whatever ... to the music, which by the way, was rock 'n roll!

The real-life rivalry and hatred between Crawford and Davis came through for this believable movie! If I could give it more than 5 stars, I would! You gotta get it!!

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