What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
Jane Hudson is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche, also a former child actress. Then Jane starts to torment her sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
15 January 1896, York, Australia
27 February 1921, Yonkers, New York, USA
2 January 1913, Ightham, Kent, England, UK
October 9, 1916 in Rockford, Illinois, USA
9 September 1914, Pasadena, California, USA
3 February 1938, San Diego, California, USA
2 January 1887, Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
13 August 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 May 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 July 1896, Pendleton, Indiana, USA
20 September 1951, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 March 1906, San Antonio, Texas, USA
April 03, 2017
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane offers commentary on aging, sisterhood, and show business, all remaining worthy of discussion today.
August 02, 2014
Gorgeously atmospheric in both the visuals and the soundtrack, and it's a marathon of high-impact Grand Dame acting.
September 24, 2007
The chain of circumstances grows, violence creating violence. Once the inept, draggy start is passed, the film's pace builds with ever-growing force.
December 14, 2012
The on-screen fireworks were reportedly fuelled by off-screen hatred, but the chemistry between the stars is unquestionably hair-raising and upped the Gothic stakes to camp shock levels.
May 20, 2003
There is nothing particularly moving or significant about these two.
September 24, 2007
Aldrich's direction and dynamite performances from the two old troupers make this film an experience.
April 18, 2017
Bette Davis is unforgettable in classic horror movie.
January 26, 2006
The Grand Guignol elements themselves are relatively forced and unconvincing.
March 03, 2017
What so often gets lost about 'Baby Jane' is that it's a real thriller, dark, suspenseful, and intense.
December 13, 2012
There are plenty of thrills and no shortage of suspense in this darkly comic horror film.
March 05, 2017
A lurid melodrama of hate, revenge and murder, a high-class horror film, in the Hitchcock vein, with virtuoso performances from Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and moments both searing and poignant.
December 16, 2012
[A] frightening, darkly comic picture ...
