What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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Summary: Bette Davis at her wretched, haggard, best!
Review: Hunker down for a night of B&W suspense/psychodrama with outstanding acting like they can't do today. A twist at the end that you won't expect. How anyone can come away calling this a "black comedy" is beside me. In my book it rates up there with the great ones of the genre, including "Psycho" (the original, of course).

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Summary: We're sisters
Review: This movie is a keeper and I am so glad the rest of the world enjoys it as much as I did. It was a credit to the stars that they kept their personal feelings aside long enough to make the movie. But no one will ever tell me Bette did not enjoy torturing Joan, on some level! I love the movie and there's really not another like it.

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Summary: Davis vs Crawford-Round 12...
Review: With all the anecdotes surrounding the making of this movie,both stars reputedly refused to talk to each other apart from their scripted lines.Their personal animosity had long been documented and probably helped in their scene stealing scenes together.Both seem to have produced a gem of a picture.Davis herself carrying of the acting laurels.They were never to work together again.Alas both legends are no longer with us.

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Summary: WHO IN THE HELL WAS BABY JANE HUDSON?
Review: In their only appearance together on film - they didn't have any scenes together in the 1944 wartime morale - boosting film HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN - Davis and Crawford each sparked their quickly fading careers by doing this excursion into the macabre. The picture isn't exactly Hitchcock, and it goes on and on in a light dimmer than necessary, and the climax - when it belatedly arrives - is rather something of a cop-out. However, this low - budget film which was directed by Robert Aldrich has achieved cult status, because the acting impresses those who relish it. Bette Davis is absolutely amazing in her characterization of a misfit who can't forget that she was once a child star in vaudeville. Bette had just been through what she termed her "ten black years" when this movie thrust forward her screen stock and again made her a bankable star. Joan Crawford plays the role of Blanche, a wheelchair bound cripple and former movie star who lives in constant torment due to her sister's shenanigans. Crawford, (who is considerably better groomed than Davis) wisely underplays Bette and director Aldrich drew to nicely contrasted performances from two actresses the likes of which we'll never see again. Davis is astonishingly grotesque in her playing of Jane and the public ate it up in 1962; it was the runaway sleeper hit of the year. If these two legendary stars did indeed have a feud, there certainly aren't many juicy stories connected with it in books: it is probable that they respected each other enough to succumb to such drudgery. It is well - known that Joan enjoyed Pepsi spiked with vodka, insisted that the set be kept at fifty degrees and would say "bless you" for "thank-you". Bette was her unaffected opposite and walked around the set in slippers and an old robe with make-up on the collar. Victor Bouno plays obese mama's boy Edwin Flagg and his acting is at once grotesque and brilliant. That's Bette's fourteen year old daughter B.D. playing Anna Lee's daughter; she would marry in real life two years later and the marriage is still going strong; in 1985, she would pen her infamous "expose" MY MOTHER'S KEEPER. Davis received her tenth (!) Academy Award nomination for this macabre classic and footage from two of her vintage films PARACHUTE JUMPER & EX-LADY (both 1933) were used to show what a lousy actress Baby Jane was as a young woman - the old movie in which Blanche watches herself with genuine fondness at is a 1934 MGM flick entitled SADIE MCKEE.

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Summary: IT ARNT EVVA GOOUUNA LEAVE MY HEAD !!
Review: lovin it and lovin it bette outshines everyone in this film you can just feel the psychotic energy radiating from the television really you can !

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Summary: The great Bette Davis in her most powerful role!
Review: This is a lower budget film which is redeemed by what is perhaps Bette Davis's most powerful performance. You see Bette at her finest. She should have received the oscar for this role (and she said so!). I have seen Baby Jane 50 times or more and it remains a psycho-thrilling masterpiece with chilling and memorable performances by the incomparable Bette Davis. Crawfords performance doesn't hold a candle to Davis' but gives it her best. Not to be missed.

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Summary: Bette Davis: The Greatest Actress Strikes Again!
Review: Bette Davis delivers another over-the-top performance in "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?". She brings horror and humor together perfectly and keeps the viewer on the edge of his seat from beginning to end. Although Joan was a great actress, she could never compare to Bette's great talent and this movie shows the reality of their infamous feud. "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane" is well worth watching. With Bette Davis and an interesting, suspenseful plot you can't go wrong.

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Summary: Strange, scary, and darkly comic.
Review: I have seen this film twice and I dare say that this is one of the best psychological horror thrillers ever made. Bette Davis' over-the-top performance made one of the most infamous female villains ever, and makes Norman Bates seem like, well, sane! The real life rivalry between the two stars only makes it more fun to watch. It is quite long however and wears on the nerves after a while. But all that aside, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" is a true american classic, the kind that is not to be missed.

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Summary: Classic thriller
Review: Bette is better when she's badder! I bet she loved torturing Crawford! Then Bette gets a nomination, and Joan gets squat! This is a classic but its really very frightening - to think that someone disabled could be exploited like that. The movie is disturbing, if you're not in the mood to laugh. Bette's make-up alone is worth a look - seems like she just puts another layer on every day, and never washes. They sure don't make them like this anymore - and if they do, it doesn't come out right!

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Summary: Creepy horror film that's become a camp classic
Review: I have seen this film once. I viewed as what it was probably intended to be: a very creepy psycho-horror film. And yet, I can see why people call it a "camp classic" now. The most obvious reason is Bette Davis's performance, which is both creepy and incredibly over-the-top. She goes overboard in wrenching every last bit of scenery away from her old rival, Joan Crawford, who as her poor crippled sister is reduced to being puddin'-pie sweet and cringing when she gets a dead animal for din-din. Davis is very creepy in the last couple of scenes when she start acting like a little kid and you know she's gone round the bend... and then some. Sunset Boulevard was better, though: this is overlong and gets to be a bit much after a while, but on the whole isn't too bad. View it however you want to; you'll either be creeped out or camped out.