What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Warner Bros released What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? to theaters on October 31, 1962. Robert Aldrich directed the film which starred Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Victor Buono.

‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’ Movie Summary

In 1917, “Baby Jane” Hudson is a vaudevillian child star. Her sister, Blanche, watches her successful sister’s career from the sidelines with a bit of jealousy. However, by 1935, the roles have reversed. Blanche is a successful movie star while Jane’s floundering career forces her to watch her now more successful sister’s career from the sidelines…with even more jealousy.

One night, after a drunken party, Blanch’s car crashes into her home’s gates, and she is paralyzed from the waist down. Jane takes the blame for it when she’s found three days later at a motel.

Fast forward nearly 30 years to 1962, and both starlet’s careers have faded. The two sister live together with Jane taking care of her wheelchair-bound sister. Jane is both an alcoholic and mentally ill, and although she takes care of her sister, she’s extremely cruel to Blanche for taking the spotlight away from her.

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