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What ever happened to baby jane quotes10/9/2023 ![]() ![]() But you can’t feel sorry for her – she’s far too wicked to solicit empathy.īaby Jane learns that Blanche intends to sell their home and is worried that her sister will have her committed. When Baby Jane performs one of her old songs in front of a mirror, singing “ I’ve written a letter to daddy”, her voice lilted in a screech of desperation, it’s sad and pathetic. Davis as Jane is Norma Desmond stretched into grotesquery: unable to accept her lack of fame, she is a bitter and twisted alcoholic and the carer from hell for the kind and vulnerable Blanche. ![]() Photograph: Cinetext/Warner Bros/AllstarĪnother jump forward moves the drama into a large shadowy house, where the two sisters, now middle-aged, live. ‘What follows blends family (melo)drama, Misery-esque domestic thriller and suburban horror’ … Crawford and Davis. It is unclear exactly what happened, triggering a question that hangs over the entire film – did Jane hurt her sister on purpose? – which is only directly answered at the very end. But that too changes (all this transpires very early in the running time) when Blanche is paralysed in a car accident. Baby Jane’s performance style has fallen out of vogue and Blanche (Joan Crawford) is now “the biggest thing in movies today”, as one bigwig on the studio lot puts it. The story jumps ahead to 1935 and mother’s prophecy has come to pass. And when that happens, I want you to try to be kinder to Jane and your father than they are to you now.” As they watch on from the wings, her mother tells Baby Jane’s older sister Blanche that “some day it’s going to be you that’s getting all the attention. Inside, Baby Jane (a child prodigy) sings and dances in front of an adoring audience. Director Robert Aldrich’s 1962 classic, which was based on a novel by Henry Farrell published two years earlier, begins in 1917, with the name of Davis’ titular character – Baby Jane Hudson – emblazoned on a theatre marquee. ![]()
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