Is there any moment in movie history more terrifyingly campy than Bette Davis, playing an aged “Baby Jane” Hudson, dressed in an adult-sized little girl’s dress, hair in curls and large bow ...

On Oct. 31, 1962, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford headlined What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, ... Her sister, Joan Crawford, was a failure as a child but a great success as an adult movie star.

The story begins in 1917, where Baby Jane Hudson is the darling child star of the vaudeville circuit doted on by her starry-eyed stage dad, while her stern sister Blanche is constantly ignored by him.

Walter Hill wrote and will direct the update on the 1962 film that starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. By Tatiana Siegel Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Poster - P 2012 Hill partnered up with ...

“YOU WOULDN’T be able to do these awful things to me if I weren’t still in this chair.” “But’cha are, Blanche. Ya are in that chair.” Well, even the most casual movie fan could not ...

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Jane is the onetime childhood star who couldn’t cut it as an adult and now lives in a booze-soaked twilight, pining for the past. Blanche is the onetime wallflower who became a movie star, until ...

The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford film led to a sub-genre of "Hagsploitation" horror featuring seasoned female stars as villains – but did this benefit or demean them, asks Thomas Hobbs.

“Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” (Robert Aldrich, 1962) at 9:15 p.m. on AMC. “Baby Jane” is the gruesome, hilarious and finally heart-breaking story of the two Hudson sisters, ex-’30s ...