What ever happened to Baby Jane?
(DVD)

Horror film; feature.

"From the novel by Henry Farrell."

Bracketed information in credits from: AFI catalog, 1961-70.

Playing time on release was 132 min., according to: AFI catalog, 1961-1970.

Copyright: Associates & Aldrich Co., Inc.; 3Nov62; LP29392. Copyright notice on DVD sleeve: program content c1962, the Associates & Aldrich Company, Inc.; photography c1962, Warner Bros.; both renewed c1990, Warner Bros.

"MPAA approved certificate, 20355."

Assistant director, Tom Connors; script supervisor, Robert Gary; script apprentice, Adell Aldrich; property master, John Orlando; sound, Jack Solomon; dialogue supervisor, Robert Sherman; casting supervisor, Jack Murton; set decorator, George Sawley; music editor, George E. Marsh; sound editor, Harold E. McGhan; camera operator, Till A. Gabbani; choreography by Alex Romero; Glen Glenn Sound co-recording; art director, William Glasgow; assistant to the producer, Walter Blake; wardrobe designer, Norma Koch; production supervisor, Jack R. Berne; music by DeVol. [Song, "I've written a letter to Daddy," Frank DeVol; 2d asst dir, Harry Slott; wardrobe, Angela Alexander, Kathleen McCandless, Vou Lee Giokaris, Eric Seelig; makeup, Jack Obringer, Monte Westmore; hairstyles, Florence Guernsey, Peggy Shannon; sp eff, Don Steward; still photog, Don Christie; grip, Dick Borland].

Starring Bette Davis [Jane Hudson], Joan Crawford [Blanche Hudson]; introducing Victor Buono [Edwin Flagg]; with Wesley Addy [director], Julie Allred [young Jane], Ann Barton [Cora Hudson], Marjorie Bennett [Mrs. Flagg], Bert Freed [producer], Anna Lee [Mrs. Bates], Maidie Norman [Elvira Stitt], Dave Willock [Ray Hudson]; William Aldrich, Ernest Anderson, Russ Conway, Maxine Cooper, Robert Cornthwaite, Michael Fox, Gina Gillespie [young Blanche], B. [Barbara] D. Merrill [Liza Bates], Don Ross, James Seay, John Shay, Jon Shepodd, Peter Virgo [Jr.], Bobs Watson; the singing voice of Debbie Burton.

Released November 3, 1962, according to: Film daily yearbook, 1963.

"In the 1920's, 6-year-old Baby Jane Hudson becomes an enormously successful child star in vaudeville while her older sister, Blanche, is forced to remain quietly in the background. As the two reach maturity, however, Jane loses both her appeal and her talent, and Blanche develops into a beautiful and renowned film actress. Then, at the height of her career, Blanche is crippled in an automobile accident for which the alcoholic Jane is held responsible. As the years pass, the two sisters become virtual recluses in an old mansion, where the slatternly and guilt-ridden Jane cares for the helpless Blanche. When she learns Blanche is planning to sell the house and perhaps place her in a home, Jane plots a diabolical revenge. She serves her sister trays of dead rats and parakeets, tears out her phone, and keeps her a prisoner in her bedroom. She even resorts to killing their black maid, Elvira, with a hammer when the woman becomes suspicious and threatens to go to the police. Jane is also planning to make a comeback and has hired the obese pianist Edwin Flagg to accompany her. But when Edwin discovers Blanche gagged and bound to her bed, he runs hysterically from the house. Realizing he will go to the police, Jane drags Blanche into a car and drives to a nearby beach. There Blanche confesses that she had arranged the automobile accident and had intended to kill her sister to avenge herself for the years of humiliation she had spent in the shadow of Baby Jane. As the police arrive upon the scene, the now totally deranged Jane goes into her song-and-dance routine of long ago"--AFI catalog, 1961-1970.