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    What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)

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    Director Robert Aldrich gave Bette Davis and Joan Crawford a bizarre new lease on life in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? – an extraordinary extension of the sadomasochistic elements that ran through their film careers – in which they played two elderly sisters trapped in the past.

    Jane Hudson (Davis) was the child star of the babyjane20title until Blanche (Crawford) became a leading lady and elbowed her out of the spotlight.

    Now the studio lights have been switched off for both of them, and they occupy a shuttered and decaying Bel Air mansion, Blanche in a wheelchair after being crippled in a car accident and drink-sodden Jane gleefully serving her rats for dinner.

    There is heavyweight support from 300-pound newcomer Victor Buono and Aldrich worked all the organ stops on this bit of sub-Gothic horror which some critics called “slowly developed” and “too long”.

    Baby Jane Hudson
    Bette Davis
    Blanche Hudson
    Joan Crawford
    Edwin Flagg
    Victor Buono
    Marty McDonald
    Wesley Addy
    Cora Hudson
    Anne Barton
    Dehlia Flagg
    Marjorie Bennett
    Ben Golden
    Bert Freed
    Mrs Bates
    Anna Lee
    Elvira Stitt
    Maidie Norman
    Ray Hudson
    Dave Willock

    Director
    Robert Aldrich

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