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1962 film by Robert Aldrich

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

Production
visitor

Seven Arts Productions
Distributed past Warner Bros. Pictures

Release engagement
  • Oct 31, 1962 (1962-ten-31)

Running fourth dimension

 134 minutes[1]
State United States
Language English
Budget $980,000[2]
Box office $nine.v 1000000[iii]

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

What Always Happened to Baby Jane? was theatrically released in the United states on October 31, 1962, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was met with critical acclamation and was a box part success. It was nominated for five Academy Awards and won ane for Best Costume Design, Blackness-and-White, with Davis receiving her tenth and final nomination for Best Actress.

The intensely bitter Hollywood rivalry between the flick'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 2 stars. In the years after release, critics continued to acclaim the moving picture for its psychologically driven black comedy, campsite, and cosmos of the psycho-biddy subgenre.[seven] [8] The film'south novel and controversial plot meant that information technology originally received an X rating in the U.K.[1] Considering of the appeal of the film'southward stars, Dave Itzkoff in The New York Times has identified it every bit beingness a "cult classic".[9] In 2003, the graphic symbol of Baby Jane Hudson was ranked No. 44 on the American Flick Institute'due south list of the 50 Best Villains of American Cinema.[10]

In 2021, the picture was selected for preservation in the Usa National Film Registry past the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[11]

Plot [edit]

In 1917, "Baby Jane" Hudson is a spoiled and capricious child actress who performs in vaudeville theatres across the state with her male parent, who acts as her manager and accompanies her on stage on the piano. Her success is such that a line of porcelain dolls is fabricated in her image. Meanwhile, her shy older sis Blanche lives in her shadow and is treated with contempt by the haughty Jane. As the sisters pass adolescence, their situations undergo a reversal; Jane's fashion of performing falls out of fashion, and her career declines as she descends into alcoholism, while Blanche becomes an acclaimed Hollywood actress. Mindful of a promise fabricated to their female parent, Blanche attempts to maintain a semblance of a career for Jane, going as far equally to impose on producers to guarantee a number of acting roles for her. One evening in 1935, Blanche's career is cut brusque when she is paralyzed from the waist down in a mysterious automobile accident that is unofficially blamed on Jane, who is found three days later on in a drunken stupor.

By 1962, Blanche and Jane are living together in a mansion purchased with Blanche'southward moving-picture show 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'south success, regularly mistreats Blanche and prepares to revive her erstwhile 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 once the house is sold. She removes the telephone from Blanche's bedroom, cutting her off from the outside world. During Jane's absence, Blanche badly drags herself downwards the stairs and calls her doctor for assist. Jane returns to find Blanche on the phone and beats her unconscious before mimicking Blanche'south vox to dismiss the medico. 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 abroad, the suspicious Elvira sneaks into the house and attempts to admission Blanche's room. Concerned by the lack of a response, Elvira tries to break open up the door with a hammer. Jane returns home and reluctantly gives Elvira the key. 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's cousin has reported her missing. Jane panics and prepares to leave, taking Blanche with her. Before they can leave, an inebriated Edwin is escorted to the house by police and discovers Blanche bound to her bed. Edwin flees and notifies the authorities. Jane, in a fit of infantile regression, takes Blanche to a beach where she sang as a child, attracting the attention of nearby beachgoers. Blanche — lying starved, dehydrated, and nearly death on a coating — tells the real story of the car accident to relieve Jane of guilt, maxim she is paraplegic through her own error: 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 night. Blanche'south spine broke when her car struck the iron gates exterior their mansion, and she dragged herself in front of the automobile's hood to phase the accident and frame Jane. Blanche took advantage of Jane's shock and subsequent bender, removing the existent dynamics of the accident from her heed, and subjected Jane to a life of guilt, loneliness, and servitude. Now enlightened of the truth, Jane sadly states that the sisters could take been friends. After Jane gets ice cream for herself and Blanche from a nearby kiosk, she is recognized past two police force officers, who ask her to lead them to Blanche. Jane dodges the officers' enquiry and dances before a crowd of bemused onlookers, while the officers find Blanche and rush to confirm her condition.

Bandage [edit]

  • Bette Davis as Jane Hudson
    • Julie Allred as nine-year-erstwhile Jane
    • Debbie Burton as young Jane's singing voice
  • Joan Crawford equally Blanche Hudson
    • Gina Gillespie as 13-year-one-time Blanche
  • Victor Buono as Edwin Flagg
  • Marjorie Bennett every bit 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 every bit Cora Hudson (credited equally Ann Barton)
  • Wesley Addy as Marty McDonald
  • Robert Cornthwaite as Doctor Shelby
  • Maxine Cooper every bit Bank Teller
  • Bert Freed as Ben Gold
  • Ernest Anderson as Ernie the water ice-cream vendor[12]
  • William Aldrich as Lunch Counter Assistant at Beach
  • Russ Conway as Police Officer
  • Michael Fox as Television set Commercial Man
  • Don Ross every bit Police Officer
  • James Seay as Police Officeholder
  • John Shay equally Police Officer
  • Jon Shepodd as Police Officer
  • Peter Virgo equally Police Officer

Production [edit]

Bette Davis (left) as Babe Jane Hudson and Joan Crawford every bit 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 show cottages on DeLongpre Avenue near Harvard Avenue in Hollywood without their current gated courtyards. The scene on the beach was filmed nearly Aldrich'south beach house in Malibu, the same site where Aldrich filmed the final scene of Kiss Me Deadly (1955). The embankment house's exterior is briefly visible during the movie's final scenes.

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

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

In a 1972 phone conversation, Crawford told author Shaun Considine that subsequently seeing the film she urged Davis to go and take a look. 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 lot were so right, Joan. The movie is good. And I was terrific." Crawford said, "That was it. She never said annihilation about my performance. Not a word."[13]

During the filming of Hush...Hush, Sweetness Charlotte (1964), Crawford acknowledged to visiting reporter and author Lawrence J. Quirk the difficulty she was having with Davis because of the Oscar incident,[ clarification needed ] but added, "She acted like Baby Jane was a 1-woman show after they nominated her. What was I supposed to do? Let her hog all the glory, human activity like I hadn't fifty-fifty been in the picture show? She got the nomination. I didn't begrudge her that, but it would take been nice if she'd been a little gracious in interviews and given me a trivial credit. I would've done so for her."[fourteen]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Contemporary reviews were mixed. In a generally negative review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther observed, "[Davis and Crawford] do go off some amusing and eventually claret-chilling displays of screaming sororal hatred and full general monstrousness ... The feeble attempts that Mr. Aldrich has fabricated to suggest the irony of two once idolized and wealthy females living in such depravity, and the desolation of their deep-seated green-eyed having brought them to this, wash out very apace under the flood of sheer grotesquerie. There is nothing moving or especially significant most these two."[fifteen] Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times also panned the motion picture, writing that Crawford and Davis had been turned into "grotesque caricatures of themselves" and that the picture show "mocks not only its characters just as well the sensibilities of its audience."[16] The Chicago Tribune wrote, "This isn't a film, information technology'due south a caricature. Bette Davis' make-up could very well take been washed by Charles Addams, Joan Crawford's perils make those of Pauline wait like practiced, clean fun and the plot piles 1 fantastic twist upon another until it all becomes nonsensical."[17] Brendan Gill of The New Yorker was somewhat negative too, calling the film "far from being a Hitchcock—information technology 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 Final Year at Marienbad. Still, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford exercise go a chance to comport on similar mad things, which at to the lowest degree 1 of them is supposed to be."[18]

Among the positive reviews, Multifariousness stated that after a slow and overlong introduction the film became "an emotional toboggan ride," adding, "Although the results heavily favor Davis (and she earns the credit), information technology 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 bedridden Blanche, held in emotionally by the nature and temperament of the function."[19] Richard Fifty. Coe of The Washington Post as well liked the motion picture, writing that "Miss Davis has the showiest part and bites into it with all her admired force, looking a fearfulness from head to foot. I incertitude 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 office, that is non without rewards. Suffering is one of her particular gifts."[20] The Monthly Movie Bulletin wrote that numerous directorial techniques, including all the plunging shots down the staircase, made the film await "rather like an anthology of the oldest and most hackneyed devices in thrillerdom. And yet, in its curious Gothic way, the picture show works marvelously, though mainly as a field-day for its actors."[21]

In Sight & Sound, Peter John Dyer stated that the film had "a frequent air of incompetence," writing of Aldrich's management that "Like some textbook educatee of Hitchcock who never got across Blackmail, he dispenses suspense with ham-fisted conventionality." Dyer did praise the performances of the leads, however, finding that they seemed to have constitute "a new maturity, a field of study encouraged perhaps past the bars sets and Crawford'due south wheelchair, or past the interaction of their professional rivalry upon a belated common respect."[22]

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

In a retrospective review, TV Guide awarded the picture iv 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 endeavour to look away ... As in the best Hitchcock movies, suspense, rather than actual mayhem, drives the motion picture."[25]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Box office [edit]

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

In the Great britain, the film was given an X document past the BBFC in 1962, with a few small-scale cuts. These cuts were waived for a video submission, which was given an xviii certificate in 1988, meaning no 1 under 18 years of historic period could buy a copy of the pic.[one] However, in 2004, the moving-picture show was re-submitted for a theatrical re-release, and it was given a 12A document, at present meaning persons under 12 years of age could view it if accompanied past 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, later on dubbed the psycho-biddy subgenre, amidst them Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, and director Curtis Harrington'south Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? and What'south the Matter with Helen?. It was parodied past the Italian comedy film What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? [35]

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

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

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

In 2006, Christina Aguilera adopted a new alter ego called Baby Jane afterwards Bette Davis' character in the pic.[40]

In Season two, Episode four of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, the elevate queens' acting chops are tested in parody film sequels of RuPaul'south favourite films. A parody of ''What Ever Happened to Baby 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 motion picture is the basis for the 2017 miniseries Feud, which stars Jessica Lange as Crawford and Susan Sarandon equally Davis and created by Ryan Murphy.[42] [43]

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