What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Voti degli utenti:

7.9/10   

Regista:

Robert Aldrich

Writers:

Henry Farrell (novel)
Lukas Heller (screenplay)

Data di uscita:

31 ottobre 1962 (USA)

Genere:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Slogan:

Sister, sister, oh so fair, why is there blood all over your hair?

Plot:

In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.

Plot Keywords:

Women Killing Women | Dysfunctional Family | Chiaroscuro | Macabre | Grand Guignol

Premi:

Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 10 nominations

Recensioni degli utenti:

One of the great movies about the movies

Cast

Bette Davis	...	Baby Jane Hudson
Joan Crawford	...	Blanche Hudson
Victor Buono	...	Edwin Flagg
Wesley Addy	...	Marty Mc Donald
Julie Allred	...	Baby Jane Hudson, in 1917
Anne Barton	...	Cora Hudson
Marjorie Bennett	...	Dehlia Flagg
Bert Freed	...	Ben Golden (as Robert Freed)
Anna Lee	...	Mrs. Bates
Maidie Norman	...	Elvira Stitt
Dave Willock	...	Ray Hudson
William Aldrich	...	Lunch counter assistant at beach
Russ Conway	...	Police Officer
Maxine Cooper	...	Bank teller
Robert Cornthwaite	...	Dr. Shelby
Michael Fox	...	Motorcycle cop at beach
Gina Gillespie	...	Blanche Hudson, in 1917
Barbara Merrill	...	Liza Bates (as B.D. Merrill)
Don Ross
James Seay	...	Police Officer
John Shay
Jon Shepodd
Peter Virgo
Bobs Watson	...	Clerk in Newspaper Classified Ad Department
Debbie Burton	...	Singing Voice (voice)
resto del cast in ordine alfabetico:
Ernest Anderson	...	Ernie, Ice Cream Vendor at Beach

Regia di
Robert Aldrich

Scritto da
Henry Farrell		(novel)
Lukas Heller		(screenplay)

Prodotto da
Robert Aldrich	....	producer
Kenneth Hyman	....	executive producer

Musiche originali di
Frank De Vol		(as DeVol)
Sidney Cutner		(uncredited)
Ruby Raksin		(uncredited)

Fotografia di
Ernest Haller

Montaggio di
Michael Luciano

Responsabile casting
Jack Murton

Architetto-scenografo
William Glasgow

Arredatore
George Sawley

Trucco
Jack Obringer	....	makeup artist
Robert J. Schiffer	....	makeup artist
Monty Westmore	....	makeup artist
Beau Wilson	....	key makeup artist

Direttore di produzione
Jack R. Berne	....	production supervisor

Aiuto regista
William Aldrich	....	third assistant director
Tom Connors Jr.	....	assistant director (as Tom Connors)

Art Department
John Orlando	....	props

Sonoro
Harold E. McGhan	....	sound editor
Jack Solomon	....	sound

Effetti speciali
Donald Steward	....	special effects

Controfigure
Carol Daniels	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Til Gabani	....	camera operator (as Till A. Gabbani)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Norma Koch	....	wardrobe designer

Editorial Department
Nick Archer	....	assistant film editor

Music Department
Debbie Burton	....	singing voice: Bette Davis, "I've Written a Letter to Daddy" (song title uncredited)
George F. Marni	....	music editor

Altro personale
Adell Aldrich	....	script apprentice
Robert Altman	....	dialogue supervisor
Walter Blake	....	assistant to producer
Robert Gary	....	script supervisor
Alex Romero	....	choreographer

Production Companies

• Associates & Aldrich Company, The
• Seven Arts Pictures
• Warner Bros. Pictures

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1962) (USA) (theatrical)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1967) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Warner Home Video (1991) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Warner Home Video (1997) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Vídeo (2001) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Park Circus (2004) (UK) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Bros. (1963) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)

Alias:

Che fine ha fatto Baby Jane? (Italy) [it]

Durata:

134 min | Argentina:135 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Bianco e nero

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonoro:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Divieti:

UK:18 (1988 rating) | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Portugal:M/12 | France:-12 | Ireland:12 | Spain:18 | Germany:16 (f) | South Korea:15 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:12A (re-rating) (2004) | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | USA:Unrated

Luoghi delle riprese:

172 N. McCadden Pl., Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Associates & Aldrich Company, The

Curiosità:

The wig Bette Davis wears throughout the film had, unbeknownst to both leads, been worn by Joan Crawford in an earlier MGM movie. Because it had been re-groomed, Crawford didn't recognize it.

Errori:

Continuity: In the first scene featuring nextdoor neighbor Mrs. Bates, she places the telephone on the coffee table twice.

Citazioni:

Dr. Shelby: I don't quite understand. Is this some kind of emotional disturbance you're talking about?
Blanche: Yes, she's emotionally disturbed. She's unbalanced!

Movie Connections:

Citato in Destroy All Humans! (2005) (VG)

Colonna sonora:

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

One of the great movies about the movies

One of the great movies about the movies, (and great movies about the movies aren't reverential, they bite the hand that feeds them), and the best of Aldrich's 'women's pictures'. Detractors see it as a misogynist load of horse manure about a couple of self-loathing sisters hauled up together in a decaying Hollywood mansion, a too-close-to-home study of the real life rivalry between stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford or even as a veiled study of homosexual self-depreciation with the sisters as ageing drag queens. But these are the very things that make the picture great. It is precisely because it can be read in this way that makes it such a perversely enjoyable, subversive piece of work.

As the sisters, Davis and Crawford pull all the stops out and then some. What makes Crawford's performance great is that she is never sympathetic even when Davis is feeding her dead rat or quite literally kicking her when she's down, while Davis is simply astonishing. With her face painted like a hideous Kabuki mask and dressed up like a doll that's filled with maggots it's an unashamedly naked piece of acting, as revealing as her work in "All About Eve" and almost as good. Unfortunately the film's commercial success lead both actresses into a downward spiral of not dissimilar but considerably lack-lustre material. But this bitch-fest is the real McCoy.