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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991) (TV)
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17 February 1991 (USA)
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An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion. | add synopsis
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I generally don't care for remakes, but THIS.....
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Blanche Hudson | |
| Lynn Redgrave | ... | Jane Hudson | |
| Bruce A. Young | ... | Dominick | |
| Amy Steel | ... | Connie | |
| John Scott Clough | ... | Frank | |
| John Glover | ... | Billy | |
| Samantha Jordan | ... | Baby Jane | |
| Erinn Canavan | |||
| J. Michael Flynn | ... | Mr. Hudson (as Michael Flynn) | |
| Alexandra Johnson | |||
| Bradley Mott | |||
| Vinny Argiro | |||
| Pat Skipper | |||
| Barry Dennen | |||
| Beans Morocco |
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What Ever Happened to...? (USA) (alternative title)
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USA:120 min (including commercials)
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Referenced in "The Nanny: The Yummy Mummy (#6.13)" (1999)
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Tomorrow Is Not Far Away
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Hey now, I'm not really one for remakes, especially when it comes to classics. The original "Whatever Happened...?" is far creepier and sinister than this, and it remains one of my favorite movies, but I really liked this new version too. Perhaps it works because Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave really ARE sisters? And not two has-been glamor-girls trying to out-hag each other (although Joan Crawford still looked pretty good in the original, Bette Davis was enough to scare the hell out of you). So Lynn as Baby Jane Hudson seems somewhere between a 60's flower child and Edith-Anne, the role Lily Tomlin played on Laugh In many years ago. She dresses and fixes her hair like a little girl ALL the time, whereas Davis was WAY more grotesque and flopped around in a housecoat. Her make-up kind of reminds me of a raccoon, though, a raccoon with a booze problem. Vanessa does a great long-suffering Blanche. Definitely their interaction is a lot less understated than it was in the original, Baby Jane is unhinged, to be sure, but she doesn't exude the cruelty that Davis did. Now, we throw in John Glover in sort of the role that Victor Buono played, and by sort of I mean that a more "modern" twist has been thrown in. His character Billy seems a tad light in the loafers, but that's not all that obvious until his big scene with Jane on stage (in her mind, the start of her big "comeback")at a nightclub in good old Hollyweird. Oh my. This is probably one of the sequences that would send me running back to the original, but it's fairly minor and doesn't really detract from the movie. I found this to be surprisingly good, and if you like the original it's well worth checking this one out. Highly recommended.