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Wick's Review
Summary - OK 2.5 click to collapse contents
There’s no business like show business, and none more cruel in the wake of early success. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? stands as a cautionary tale. A classic movie that pairs big stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age, it stands now as a borderline laughable antique. Like its stars, it hasn’t aged well.
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford famously didn’t like each other, yet got late career boosts playing criminally dysfunctional sisters: Davis as the Baby Jane of the title, a onetime child star whose soul was corrupted by her prepubescent fame; Crawford as her older sister, who became a movie star after Jane’s career ended.
Locked in a passive-aggressive relationship that descends into active aggression, the two spinsters take turns engaging in batty behavior.
Not recommended except for fans of psychological thrillers and classic Hollywood, or of fallen stars.
Speaking of fallen stars, a remake starring Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox would have potential…