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31 October 1962 (USA) moreTagline:
Sister, sister, oh so fair, why is there blood all over your hair? morePlot:
In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 10 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Spillane's Secretary In Kiss Me Deadly Dead At 84 (From WENN. 15 April 2009, 3:00 PM, PDT)
Bette To Star On Broadway
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 25 March 1998)
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One of the great movies about the movies moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bette Davis | ... | Baby Jane Hudson | |
| Joan Crawford | ... | Blanche Hudson | |
| Victor Buono | ... | Edwin Flagg | |
| Wesley Addy | ... | Marty Mc Donald | |
| Julie Allred | ... | Baby Jane Hudson, in 1917 | |
| Anne Barton | ... | Cora Hudson (as Ann Barton) | |
| Marjorie Bennett | ... | Dehlia Flagg | |
| Bert Freed | ... | Ben Golden (as Robert Freed) | |
| Anna Lee | ... | Mrs. Bates | |
| Maidie Norman | ... | Elvira Stitt | |
| Dave Willock | ... | Ray Hudson | |
| William Aldrich | ... | Lunch counter assistant at beach | |
| Russ Conway | ... | Police Officer | |
| Maxine Cooper | ... | Bank teller | |
| Robert Cornthwaite | ... | Dr. Shelby |
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134 min | Argentina:135 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)Certification:
UK:18 (1988 rating) | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Portugal:M/12 | France:-12 | Ireland:12 | Spain:18 | Germany:16 (f) | South Korea:15 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:12A (re-rating) (2004) | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | USA:UnratedFun Stuff
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While touring the talk show circuit to promote the movie, Bette Davis told one interviewer that when she and Joan Crawford were first suggested for the leads in this film, Warner Bros. studio head Jack L. Warner replied: "I wouldn't give a plugged nickel for either one of those two old broads." Recalling the story, Davis laughed at her own expense. The following day, she reportedly received a telegram from Crawford: "In future, please do not refer to me as an old broad!" moreGoofs:
Continuity: In the first scene featuring nextdoor neighbor Mrs. Bates, she places the telephone on the coffee table twice. moreSoundtrack:
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One of the great movies about the movies, (and great movies about the movies aren't reverential, they bite the hand that feeds them), and the best of Aldrich's 'women's pictures'. Detractors see it as a misogynist load of horse manure about a couple of self-loathing sisters hauled up together in a decaying Hollywood mansion, a too-close-to-home study of the real life rivalry between stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford or even as a veiled study of homosexual self-depreciation with the sisters as ageing drag queens. But these are the very things that make the picture great. It is precisely because it can be read in this way that makes it such a perversely enjoyable, subversive piece of work.
As the sisters, Davis and Crawford pull all the stops out and then some. What makes Crawford's performance great is that she is never sympathetic even when Davis is feeding her dead rat or quite literally kicking her when she's down, while Davis is simply astonishing. With her face painted like a hideous Kabuki mask and dressed up like a doll that's filled with maggots it's an unashamedly naked piece of acting, as revealing as her work in "All About Eve" and almost as good. Unfortunately the film's commercial success lead both actresses into a downward spiral of not dissimilar but considerably lack-lustre material. But this bitch-fest is the real McCoy.