![]() ![]() But just as Davis and Crawford’s off-screen loathing added resonance to their on-screen chemistry, who wouldn’t want to see the intense Jolie and an off-the-rails Aniston - think of her sexist predator in “Horrible Bosses”- mix it up on the same soundstage? This could be their chance at a de-glam moment, to show they can ACT in capital letters. Besides, she still has to fulfill the dramatic promise of “The Rose.”Īngelina Jolie (Blanche) and Jennifer Aniston (Baby Jane) And mischievous Midler’s take on demented? Priceless. Weaver has battled aliens with a believably straight face, so a demon sister should be no problem. But it was Crawford, perhaps, who got the last laugh, accepting the award on Oscar night - even if it was on behalf of absentee winner Anne Bancroft for “The Miracle Worker.” Besides their own success from the project, “Baby Jane” ushered in an era of older-actress horror flicks, including Davis’ “Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte,” also helmed by “Baby’s” Robert Aldrich. ![]() The only thing more in danger than Blanche and her pet bird (don’t ask) in their mausoleum of a Hollywood mansion was the quickly consumed scenery.Īll creepy blond ringlets and gargoyle makeup, Davis walked away with a 10th (and final) lead actress nomination for her vanity-free performance. Joan Crawford was invalid sister Blanche, a onetime star in her own right, crippled years earlier in a mysterious car wreck. After all, the 1962 original, a delicious hot mess of black comedy/chiller thriller, earned late-career cred for two of golden Hollywood’s declining and long feuding queen bees.īette Davis camped it up as “Baby Jane” Hudson, a former child star-turned-abusive, frowzy caretaker. And actresses of a certain age everywhere must be quivering in their orthopedics at news of a remake. “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” Looks like we’re about to find out again. ![]()
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