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Was What Ever Happened to Baby Jane a commercial success? ›

Long regarded as a classic, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? was a box-office hit and a critical success, netting five Oscar nominations and a win for costume design.

The Hudson sisters' house is at 172 South McCadden Place in Los Angeles. Their next door neighbor's house is at 166 South McCadden Place. It was also used in Bringing Down The House (2003). I've been to the house several times over the years and I'm glad it's retained it's appearance.

The film was a box office hit, grossing $9 million in theatrical rentals in North America, giving both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford their biggest hit in over a decade. In the United Kingdom, the film was given an X certificate by the BBFC in 1962, with a few minor cuts.

Aldrich's 1962 Hollywood adaptation of Henry Farrell's gothic novel would star Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, both then in their mid 50s, as quarrelling sisters, confined to the living tomb of a Los Angeles mansion that's filled with skeletons and a noxious resentment that lingers in the air.

I came to Ferncliff Cemetery with one mission and one mission only: to find Joan Crawford. The iconic star from Hollywood's Golden Era rests peacefully in the halls of Ferncliff Mausoleum alongside her last husband, Alfred Steele, who was the former CEO of PepsiCo.

What Was Joan Crawford's Net Worth? Joan Crawford was an American actress and theatrical performer who had a net worth of $2 million at the time of her death in 1977. After adjusting for inflation, that's the same as around $10 million in today's dollars.

As an infant, B. D. appeared briefly in her mother's film Payment on Demand (1951). Subsequently adopted by actor Gary Merrill, Davis's fourth husband, she was credited as B. D. Merrill for a minor role in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), as the neighbor's daughter.

Throughout her film career, Crawford starred in a total of 81 films and was nominated for two Academy Awards. In 1945, Crawford won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Mildred Pierce.

The beach, where secrets are revealed and poor Blanche (Joan Crawford) finally croaks, is Westward Beach, on Malibu's west shore, just off the Pacific Coast Highway north of Los Angeles.

Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), also a former child actress. Stuck living together in a mansion in old Hollywood, Blanche plots to get even with Jane for the car crash that left her crippled years earlier.

What was Joan Crawford's last movie? ›

Crawford's final appearance on the silver screen was in the flop Trog (1970). Turning to vodka more and more, she was hardly seen afterward. On May 10, 1977, Joan died of a heart attack in New York City. She was 71 years old.

Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), also a former child actress. Stuck living together in a mansion in old Hollywood, Blanche plots to get even with Jane for the car crash that left her crippled years earlier. But Jane is desperate to keep Blanche imprisoned as she plans a new rise to fame, and tries to hide Blanche's existence from doctors, visitors and neighbors while she devises a way to get rid of her sister.

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? / Film synopsis

Alice Coopers makeup look was inspired by the character. Apparently, Bette Davis insisted on doing her own makeup, because she wanted to show how Baby Jane was dealing with stress: she'd never shower or wash her face, she'd just cake another layer of makeup on every morning. Because she was a TRUE thespian !!

Crawford won the Best Actress Academy Award for Mildred Pierce in 1945. She made many more movies, but retired in 1970. She died in New York City of a heart attack.

We are sadden to announce that Margot Merrill, daughter of Bette Davis and Gary Merrill, passed away peacefully in Boston on Thursday. She was an incredible and special woman, with an engaging sense of humor and contagious laugh.

"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" is one of the greatest American movies ever, with top-notch performances of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The disturbing story of sibling jealousy, rivalry, malevolence and insanity has a surprising plot point in the end that really surprises.

Miss Bette Davis famously did her own makeup in "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane." Of course Max Factor supplied that makeup!

Aldrich died in 1983, not too far from broke, having been forced to sell off his own studio. He never complained. No matter that he never got an Oscar nomination (he did get two DGA Award nominations, for The Dirty Dozen and Baby Jane).