What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)

	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

Director

Robert Aldrich

Producer

Robert Aldrich

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, who's 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 IMDB TheMovieDb.org

References
Lists	‡ 175 Essential Films for GLBT Viewers from Advocate (6/23/2014)

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.