What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Warner Bros. (1962)
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Queer Themes/Interest, Thriller
In Collection
#660
7*
Seen ItYes
(3/19/2017)
IMDB   8.1
134 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   US - Approved
Bette Davis Baby Jane Hudson
Joan Crawford Blanche Hudson
Victor Buono Edwin Flagg
Wesley Addy Marty Mc Donald
Bert Freed Ben Golden
Anna Lee Mrs. Bates
Julie Allred Baby Jane Hudson
Marjorie Bennett Dehlia Flagg
Maidie Norman Elvira Stitt
Dave Willock Ray Hudson
Julie Allred Baby Jane Hudson / in 1917
Anne Barton Cora Hudson
William Aldrich Lunch Counter Assistant at Beach
Russ Conway Police Officer
Maxine Cooper Bank Teller
Robert Cornthwaite Dr. Shelby
Michael Fox TV Commercial Man
Gina Gillespie Blanche Hudson / in 1917
Barbara Merrill Liza Bates
Don Ross Police Officer
James Seay Police Officer
John Shay Police Officer
Jon Shepodd Police Officer
Peter Virgo Police Officer
Bobs Watson Clerk in Newspaper Classified Ad Department
Debbie Burton Singing Voice
Director/Choreographer
Robert Aldrich
Producer Robert Aldrich
Kenneth Hyman
Writer/Composer Lukas Heller
Henry Farrell
Cinematography Ernest Haller
Music Frank De Vol
Sidney Cutner
Ruby Raksin


Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.
Edition Details
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Purchase Date 3/5/2017
Location Personal Library
Owner Deitz
Store Amazon.com
Purchase Price $14.11
Condition New
Tags film night candidate, Halloween season candidate
Links ‡ Commentary: Queerty (Jeremy Kinser April 10, 2014)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? at Core for Movies
TheMovieDb.org
IMDB

Notes
Why a movie about two demented movie stars, one deranged, one an invalid, "endures as rite-of-passage viewing for gay people through this day" [Queerty] escapes me -- Perhaps, in the 60s when released, some queer folk identified with these women in their own self-loathing identities, but there is no reason that What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? should be raised up today as an essential "gay interest" film -- I have kept the genre identity "gay themed/interest" because it "is," not because it should be.