What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Movie Review (1. 96. The staircase should be billed along with the stars in Robert Aldrich's "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1. On a claustrophobic set, it dominates many shots, separating the upstairs captivity of the paraplegic Blanche from the downstairs lair of her deranged sister Jane. Although the two sisters live in a "mansion" that allegedly once belonged to Valentino, it is jammed between nosy neighbors and seems to consist only of a living room, a kitchen, a hallway and a bedroom for each sister. In this hothouse a lifelong rivalry turns vicious, in one of Hollywood's best gothic grotesqueries.

Advertisement. The story involves sisters who were once movie stars, played by Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The casting is one of the crucial successes of the film, although it is hard to imagine how Aldrich convinced the two divas to appear together. Rivals since the 1. Indeed, a book was written about their mutual disdain, Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (1. It is claimed on IMDb.

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Jane kicks the helpless Blanche, Davis kicked Crawford so hard a cut required stitches. This is surely an urban legend, since the actual contact takes place below frame and Crawford would not have been present for the shot. What wasn't an urban legend was that the two were fiercely competitive; it's possible that each agreed to do the picture only because she was jealous of the other's starring role.

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In the event, it was Davis who emerged on top, winning an Oscar nomination as the former child star who was now a shrill gargoyle with makeup pancaked all over her face. Davis was nothing if not courageous, as she abandoned all shreds of vanity and overacted her heart out. Crawford plays the quieter, kinder, more reasonable sister - - and, it must be said, the less interesting. The movie begins in the days of vaudeville, when Baby Jane Hudson was a child star famous for her saccharine performance of "I've Written a Letter to Daddy" - - a letter she seals with a kiss and mails to heaven. Offstage, she was a spoiled monster, screaming for ice cream, ridiculing her plain sister Blanche. But in their 2. 0s it is Blanche who becomes the Hollywood queen, and Jane whose appeal fades and whose movies flop.

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Their lives change forever when, in a mysterious incident, their car crushes Blanche against a gate, paralyzing her from the waist down. Advertisement. Why she is put in charge of the "care" of her sister is hard to understand, despite some mumbling about a studio "coverup." What results is the situation for the rest of the film, with Blanche trapped in a wheelchair in an upstairs bedroom, and Jane calling the shots. Blanche has two contacts with the world: her telephone and their kind maid, Elvira (Maidie Norman). But as Jane's hatred grows more venomous, she rips out the phone, sends Elvira away and beats the maid when she bravely tries to return. At some point during this descent into madness, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" stops becoming a "camp classic," which is how it's often described, and starts becoming the real thing, a psychological horror story. Davis tilts her performance toward Jane's pathological ego, which is displayed in a macabre adult performance of "I've Written a Letter to Daddy." It also emerges in her behavior toward a peculiar gentleman caller, Edwin Flagg (Victor Buono), who she proposes to hire as a pianist to accompany her during a comeback.

She flatters herself that Edwin is attracted to her, failing to see that he is not the marrying kind. The real Buono famously said, "I've heard about actors being asked 'Why have you never married?' They answer with the immortal excuse 'I just haven't found the right girl.' No one's asked me yet. If they do, that's the answer I'll give. After all, it was good enough for Monty Clift or Sal Mineo.") Edwin towers over his elderly mother, the tiny Marjorie Bennett, in a relationship as closed- off as the sisters'. Upstairs, Blanche grows more desperate. She tries to toss a note to their next- door neighbor, but Jane finds it in the driveway.

She hopes for help from Elvira, but Jane drives her away. She wheels her chair to the top of the staircase, which looms vertiginously below her. Her horrors are only beginning. I will not reveal what her sister serves her at one meal, but the next day, when she complains of hunger, Jane tells her, "You're not gettin' your breakfast because you didn't eat your din- din." When the next meal finally arrives, we stare with as much horror as Blanche does at the silver dome concealing whatever is on her plate. Advertisement. The impact of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" was considerable in 1. Watch Some Guy Who Kills People Streaming.

Today's audiences, perhaps not familiar with the stars, don't fully realize how thoroughly Crawford, and especially Davis, trashed their screen images with the coaching of Aldrich. Imagine two contemporary great beauties - - Julia Roberts and Cate Blanchett, say - - as aged crones. The personal dislike between Crawford and Davis no doubt deepened the power of their onscreen relationship; the critic Richard Scheib observes: "The irony that only came out in later years is that the roles were uncommonly close to the truth upon the parts of both actresses - - Crawford and Davis were both utterly vain, particularly when it came to their own celebrity, both abused their own family members and both had daughters who wrote books about the cruelty of their parents."The film functions among other things as a demonstration of the need both women had to appear before the camera. In a career that began in 1. Crawford (1. 90. 5- 1.

Trog" (1. 97. 0), where she was given top billing as an anthropologist on the trail of a surviving troglodyte. I cannot forget Crawford on hands and knees in a tailored pantsuit, crawling into a cave crying out, "Trog!

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Its director, Lindsay Anderson, told me that one day he said, "Miss Gish, you have just given me a perfect close- up." Davis observed, "She should. The bitch invented 'em."Robert Aldrich (1. Hollywood genres, whose credits include "Vera Cruz" (1. Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster; "Kiss Me Deadly" (1. Mickey Spillane classic; "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" (1. Davis and Crawford before Crawford fell ill (one story) or was fired because she fought with Davis (possibly apocryphal); "The Dirty Dozen" (1. The Longest Yard" (1.

Hustle" (1. 97. 5). None of them were art pictures, but most of them were popular, profitable, well- crafted and splendid examples of their genres. He was one of the first mainstream directors to insist on autonomy in selecting stories, actors and editors. Advertisement. Making "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" he possibly thought of Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" (1. Gloria Swanson as an aging movie queen, living on in her mansion. He began with a novel by Henry Farrell, which moved its aging queens further down on the artistic and financial scale, and emphasized the violence over the pathos.

He knew he was asking for trouble by pairing Davis and Crawford, but he guessed, correctly, that trouble would translate into a better film. And at the end of the day it was Davis who won the ancient battle, by upstaging Crawford, winning the nomination and making the pseudo- sequel "Charlotte." She may not have been a pretty sight mincing her way through an old- age version of "I've Written a Letter to Daddy," but she was a trouper, and no one who has seen the film will ever forget her. An elaborate two- disc special edition DVD was released in 2. Davis written by David Anson and narrated by Jodie Foster; a 3. British talk show with Crawford; a documentary about their feud; footage of Aldrich directing, and Davis performing a Chubby Checker twist version of the title song on a 1.

Andy Williams Show. There is a commentary track by Davis impersonator Charles Busch and John Epperson ("Lypsinka").

Michelle and Hillary can shove it. Posted September 2. PM by Jen Kuznicki. Andrew Harnik AP Images I didn't like liberal women when I was a child, when I was a teen, or when I was a young woman, and now, as a middle- aged woman with adult children, I have grown to detest them more than anything. I'll tell you why. Liberal women are a dime a dozen, so it doesn't matter that the specific liberal women who set me off today are among the nation's first ladies. I have zero respect for either of them or anything they represent.

In the past few days, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama have decided to tell me, as a grown woman, that I disrespect myself and have voted against my "voice" because I didn't vote for President Canker Sore's wife and voted for Trump instead. Hillary said that women who continued to support Trump after his sexist comments "publicly disrespected themselves." "When I see women doing that, I think why are they publicly disrespecting themselves? Why are they opening the door to have someone say that about them in their workplace? In a community setting?

Do they not see the connection there?" Clinton said in an interview on AM Joy. Obviously, from a woman who set the standard for publicly disrespecting herself by defending her possible rapist and certainly repeated adulterer husband, the comment is laughable on its face. But let's cut the crap. I'm not on this planet to look out for every woman.

It's not my job to stand in solidarity with other women, no matter what. It's my job to protect my family and my country, and Hillary has proven she can't do either. I protected my family from her corruption and mental disease by voting for Trump.

Michelle Obama complained that women who voted against Hillary "voted against their own voice." She said that women have been socialized to be silent while men speak, even when they say outrageous things. I don't know where Michelle grew up, but it's been my experience that men shut up and listen when I speak, because I have interesting and important things to say. Good men respect independent women, so when people like Michelle complain that women just don't know how to speak up, it's especially galling because it's simply not true. It's a cop- out and an insult. It has also been my experience that liberal men are more likely to be rude or condescending, so perhaps the type of men Michelle chooses to be around are the reason she has a distorted view. Many women did speak up against the type of speech Trump used, but we realize men aren't women, no matter how hard liberal women try to make men be liberal women.

We also know there are some women out there who definitely would allow a man to grab them by their privates if the men were rich and powerful. Watch Eavesdrop Online Free HD. That's what Trump said, and it's true. Some men would go for that, and some wouldn't. Independent women took into account what Trump said, and what Hillary is, and voted for Trump.

That's a reflection on just how terrible Hillary is, with all she represents. Women with brains weighed their options and made their choice.

And who is so stupid as to believe that I'm supposed to vote for a woman because I'm a woman? I'm supposed to become some silly- minded groupie because a woman is seeking office?

I'll vote for the right- minded, independent woman, because that represents me. Not some phony gender- obsessed aggrieved witch who barks at men just because they're men and believes she is superior because she believes liberal lies. Liberal women seek glorification, not because they are intelligent but because they seek approval from other liberal women.

Their neediness to fit in the mold that other screechy women have made for them is complete — and completely degrading. Their false sense of superiority is a defense mechanism for their lack of intellect. Their militant belief that all women ought to be in solidarity is due to the fact that they haven't the strength to stand on their own. Their rejection of their own biology is the result of their own feebleness and instability.

Their hunt for equality is a ploy for unearned privilege. Their emphasis on "reproductive rights" is submission to, and proliferation of, irresponsible and gutless men. Thousands of liberal women with pussy hats on, and not one of them asked another the question, "Could these hats symbolize our intellectual restrictions and focus the male mind on what we come equipped with for their pleasure, reinforcing the troglodyte stereotype that women are ditzy whores?" Not one. Some ridiculous liberal wimp on Twitter tweeted the day of the election, "May the election of Trump bring forth the fiercest, smartest, toughest generation of ass- kicking women this country could possibly imagine." My response? We're right here; be careful what you wish for."Women who know themselves won't get in line and yield to the desecration of what being a woman truly is by the weak, gullible, and ignorant liberal women of this world. The independent, free women of America will not be submissive to liberal lies.

Sign up now for the daily dose of sunlight you need to disinfect the media's lies. It's free! Jen Kuznicki is a contributor to Conservative Review, a blue- collar wife and mom, a political writer, humorist, and conservative activist, a seamstress by trade, and compelled to write. Follow her on Twitter @Jen.