Best Actress 1962, Part 5: Bette Davis and "What Ever happened to Baby Jane?"

This is a review of Bette Davis's Oscar-nominated performance in "What Ever happened to Baby Jane?".

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
02:53 The state of Bette Davis's career prior to "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
13:20 The state of Joan Crawford's career prior to "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
17:47 Bette Davis and Joan Crawford decide to work together
22:21 Why "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"?
27:46 The Making of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
48:27 Critical reactions to "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
52:09 My Review
58:56 Final Thoughts

You can find the reviews of the other Best Actress nominees of 1962 here:    • Review 1962  

"The Feud of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford" by Be Kind Rewind:    • The Feud of Bette Davis and Joan Craw...  

Ressources:
"Bette Davis" by Grace Carter
"Not the Girl Next Door. Joan Crawford: A Personal Biography" by Charlotte Chandler
"Bette & Joan. The Divine Feud" by Shaun Considine
"My Way of Life" by Joan Crawford
"The Lonely Life. An Autobiography" by Bette Davis
"Tennessee Williams and Company. His Essential Screen Actors" byJohn DiLeo
"Cinema '62. The Greatest Year at the Movies" by Stephen Farber, Michael McClellan
"This'n That. Bette Davis" by Michael Herskowitz
"Tennessee Williams. Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" by John Lahr
"Robert Aldrich Interviews" by Eugene L. Miller, Jr, Edwin T. Arnold
"Joan Crawford. The Essential Biography" by Lawrence J. Quirk, William Schoell
"Grande Dame Guignol Cinema. A History of Hag Horror from Baby Jane to Mother" by Peter Shelley
"Dark Victory. The Life of Bette Davis" by Ed Sikov
"Joan Crawford. A Biography" by Bob Thomas
"Bette Davis. Great Stars" by David Thomson
"Tennessee Williams. Memoirs" by Tennessee Williams
"Crazy Old Ladies. The Story of Hag Horror" by Carolyn Young

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