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Summary: This is an Unforgettable Film.
Review: This is Bette Davis's most bizarre role and some regard it as her most memorable. Bette Davis was the finest actress from Hollywood's Golden Era. Most of Bette Davis's filmwork is extraordinary. Discover it. It's well worth the effort. Only Bette Davis could have pulled off an Oscar-caliber role like Baby Jane. Joan Crawford's persona lent more to this film than her actual performance however. Nevertheless, both performances together are historic.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: Bette Davis is probably my favorite actress and this movie shows her true genius she was a very talented actress. Her movies and memory will live on forever.
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Summary: Oh no, they're mine...
Review: This movie is the absolute dickens. Such a great example of early 60s horror and suspense. Jane Hudson is my role model, I would love to tie my sister up to a bed and feed her a rat. This movie is a total classic. Edwin Flagg is such a wonderful character, he find a much better love interest than Baby Jane, however. "Here comes the superchief!"
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Summary: Excellent Movie!
Review: This is a movie that stars two of your better known actresses
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Davis plays the role of "Baby
Jane" who once had a promising career but whose star has faded.
Crawford plays the role of an actress who has actually become a big star(the two are sisters in this movie).Crawford in paralyzed as a result of a car wreck. Baby Jane becomes her caretaker.Baby Jane is becoming more and more insane.Poor Crawford is at her mercy. There is one sequence where Baby Jane serves Crawford a rat for a meal.This movie borders on being
scary because of the activities of Bette Davis.You will be shocked more than once. Buy this. It is a classic.
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Summary: I only want to think about the nice things!
Review: Wow, how can you describe this movie? I must've seen WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE at least 25 times since my first viewing, in 1962. I remember that moment distinctly. My older sister dragged me to the theater because there was a "spooky" movie playing, about two old movie star sisters. What did I know? I was only 9 years old! Well, that experience scarred me for life. I sat in the darkened theater and watched these two women go at one another tooth and claw. And Bette Davis scared ...me!...These images were to come back to me over the decades, and when videos hit the marketplace, the first one I bought was of Baby Jane. It was still great and holds up remarkably well! Now that we're in the techno age of DVDs, of course, I had to purchase the pressing of Jane! The film is remarkably contemporary...and a delicious black comedy, something I didn't realize until just now. I mean, really--a slouchy, middle-aged harridan running around like Mary Pickford on qualudes? A riotous concept! Now, as an adult, I can pick out the flaws: (1) why doesn't Blanche just yell down to the neighbor lady next door? (2) if Blanche is so hungry, why doesn't she eat the toast and milk served with the parakeet? and (3) if Jane is such a nut case, why has she been left in charge of her very wealthy handicapped sister, who just also happens to be a "big, fat, movie stah?" Makes no sense. But who cares! It's still a glorious show! Bette is truly a sight, screaming one minute, in a drunken fog the next, crying over her scrapbooks, and searching the cupboards for a full bottle of booze. And when she reprises that annoying "Letter to Daddy" song as an old crone, it's riveting. You simply cannot look away. I remember how shocked I was to learn that Bette had once been an actual leading lady, with a nice figure and a pretty face! What the hell happened in the interim? Joan Crawford is excellent as Blanche, though her role is decidedly secondary to Bette's. No wonder Davis was nominated for an Academy Award. And she deserved to win, too--not that wimpy Ann Bancroft in the (ugh) "Miracle Worker." I should also mention that Victor Buono more than holds his own in his brief scenes, and his first meeting with Jane is a hoot! Listen to their dialogue closely! WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE is top notch entertainment all the way, and I highly recommend it. Kudos to Bette Davis! She was one in a million, and we'll never see the likes of her again. Bravo!
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Summary: Good movie !
Review: I always got some kind of sick amusement out of this movie,watching Jane torture Blanche relentlessly.I love the scene where jane takes blanche one of her daily meals on a covered silver platter and blanche reluctantly lifts the lid revealing a dead rat lying on a bed of sliced tomatoes! love it!
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Summary: A masterpiece full of subtle terror.
Review: Yes, the actresses are great -- perhaps this is Bette's most intriguing work, due to her hatred of Joan Crawford -- but don't forget how absolutely fascinating the story is! My goodness, who came up with this? It ranges from hilarious to fantastically morbid. In fact it's so insane that, had not boasted mainstream actresses, I think it could have become a cult-classic Art House film. My favorite line (definitely my favorite Bette-ism), is in response to one character's statement about being English: "Oh, how nice for you." I wish I could be her. An absorbing and truly thrilling piece of film.
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Summary: Here's what happened:she never grew up; just old and bitter!
Review: Once upon a time in the days of silent movies there were two adorable, talented sisters who both had careers as child stars. Baby Jane Hudson, the "bigger" of the two stars soon was consumed by her stardom and couldn't handle rejection once cast-off as a has-been at the brink of puberty. Her sister's career, up to that point always in Baby Jane's shadow, seemed to blossom in early adulthood. Here's the twist: An accident involving both sisters following a wild party left Baby Jane's sister paralyzed. Through some scheming she is able to convince Baby Jane (who was drunk and unaccountable) that it was her drunk driving that rendered the sister a paralytic for life. Guilt ridden Baby Jane sees it her duty to care for her disabled sister. -- 40 years pass. The bitterness and mean spirited goings on are a daily thing. The wheelchair bound woman eventually fears for her life, as the sinister Baby Jane goes off into a fantasy of being a child star once again. A housekeeper in whom the sister confides wants to help, but is quickly done-away with, as she could have "blabbed". Baby Jane pulls out all the stops, and even as the sister, with her dying breath reveals the dark secret she had kept for so many years, Baby Jane is in a trance, giving a swan song performance for her "fans" who have gathered around to see her taken away as a lunatic. -- This is a Classic! Both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford give performances of a lifetime. The music score is also a nice touch, giving you the "teen scene" of the early 60s rather than "grandma's favorites". There is a 45rpm single vinyl recorrd version of Bette Davis and another performer singing "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?", extremely hard to find, but a definite winner! Fans of the stars will devour this Hollywood candy of a movie!
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Summary: Whatever Happend to Baby Janes Bow?
Review: Was anyone as freaked out at the size of her hair bow? My dog got scared. The only thing freakier was that Baby Jane doll. "I'm sending a letter to daddy, telling him to buy me a smaller bow."
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Summary: "DON'T ****** WITH THIS MOVIE"
Review: There's a grand story in circulation involving a piece of equipment, mysteriously hurled from the darkened flies, just missing Joan Crawford on a Warner Brother's sound-stage : some anonymous Joe belted : "Better Luck next time Miss Davis!" AND more tales about Joan sending Bette shoes. Shoes? Go figure that one - and then the "falsies" Joan wore that always changed size! Davis loved that - ALSO the moment at the Oscars - when Davis was nominated and Joan wasn't, but Joan did turn up to receive Anne Bancroft's statue in absentia. HENRY FARRELL's novel, brilliantly realized by Robert Aldrich is Hollywood at it's best, the mitts are off, it's teeth, claws, and the rough stuff, QUITE VIOLENT that period, but, oh such fun! Not quite a horror movie , closer to a Brothers Grimm fairy-tale - Crawford [especially] and Davis are very moving. PITY that the sorely missed Crawford was not granted more opportunity after this movie, at least Davis "post-Jane" was not just limited to Grand Guignol. More gems from the Boulevard? There's also Victor Buono and his sinister mother, and the Davis daughter ["My Mother's Keeper" the all about Davis bio.] in a cameo. BUT really, this is a great companion piece to "Sunset Boulevard" also Farrell's other "What's the Matter with Helen?" and "How Awful about Alan". NOW remember - this one started it all ["Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte", "Straitjacket", etc.... DO PAY the ORIGINAL "Sister's Hudson" a visit - if you haven't before, you're in for quite a close-up about life without the lens!
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