What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Robert Aldrich, Susan F. Walker
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Actor: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Julie Allred, Victor Buono, Wesley AddyDirector: Robert Aldrich, Susan F. Walker
Brand: DAVIS,BETTE
Producer: Ellen Krass
Producer: Kenneth Hyman
Producer: Louise Gallop-Roholt
Writer: David Ansen
Writer: Henry Farrell
Writer: Lukas Heller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Easy to Watch Again
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie to add to your DVD collection because chances are you'll watch it more than a few times. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford at their best. Davis ('Baby Jane') was famous as a child vaudeville star; Crawford ('Blanche Hudson') as a movie star now in a wheelchair. Bette is an unbalanced drinker whom Joan Crawford wants to put in a sanitarium. Bette tries to avoid that at all costs. She thinks she is going to revive her 'Baby Jane' act and be famous again. Davis is superb in makeup and adult-sized little girls' dress. A total classic. Watch for the teenaged girl next door. It's Bette Davis's real daughter, B.D. (who wrote the Mommy Dearest-like book on Bette, 'My Mother's Keeper').
Summary of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Two-Disc Special Edition)
A cultish horror favorite, 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? will make you think twice before hungrily unveiling a covered plate of food. Bette Davis stars as Jane Hudson, a onetime child actress and singer. As an elderly woman, she wishes to revive her vaudevillian career, but she has become a grotesque caricature of her former self. Over the years as her star faded, the star of her older sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) rose, outshining the career of the has-been Baby Jane. Jane was relegated to minor roles, which she only won when Blanche demanded that she be awarded them. The film opens years after a calamitous car accident leaves Blanche in a wheelchair, with no one to care for her except the increasingly insane and sadistic Jane and their servant, Norman. Trying to punish Blanche for her years of success, Jane tortures the housebound woman, slowly trying to starve her to death, all the while attempting to recapture the fame of her youth. This dark drama also stars Victor Buono as the hefty pianist who answers Jane's ad for an accompanist, hoping to milk some money off the demented old woman. Both Buono and Davis were nominated for Oscars for their roles in this suspenseful and somewhat sick thriller that exploited well the real-life antagonism between Davis and Crawford, while at the same time rejuvenated both their careers. --Jenny BrownClassics DVD Video
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