What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Robert Aldrich

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4.60

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Synopsis

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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Cast

Bette DavisBaby Jane Hudson
Joan CrawfordBlanche Hudson
Victor BuonoEdwin Flagg
Wesley AddyMarty McDonald
Julie AllredBaby Jane Hudson in 1917
Anne BartonCora Hudson
Marjorie BennettDehlia Flagg
Bert FreedBen Golden
Anna LeeMrs. Bates
Maidie NormanElvira Stitt

Recommandations

100
The Telegraph
The ultimate camp-Gothic bitchfight. Vastly entertaining.
100
TV Guide Magazine
As in the best Hitchcock movies, suspense, rather than actual mayhem, drives the film.
80
Chicago Reader
Aldrich's direction and dynamite performances from the two old troupers make this film an experience.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Whatever else it may turn out to be, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is certainly one of the most fascinating and unusual cinema items of the year, and one that will capture a huge amount of publicity and comment.
80
Empire
Sour as month-old milk and with a tang of off-screen animosity in its mouth, Robert Aldrich's melodrama is still hysterical in every sense of the word.
75
Slant Magazine
That undeniable off-screen friction only helps grease the wheels of the film’s compulsive forward momentum, supplying a crackling energy to scenes wherein, among other gothic horrors, pet birds are served up for supper with relish.
70
Variety
Once the inept, draggy start is passed, the film’s pace builds with ever-growing force.
70
The Observer (UK)
This frightening, darkly comic picture is much influenced by Sunset Boulevard.