Was geschah wirklich mit Baby Jane?
Ein ehemaliger Kinderstar quält ihre querschnittsgelähmte Schwester in ihrer verfallenen Hollywood-Villa.Ein ehemaliger Kinderstar quält ihre querschnittsgelähmte Schwester in ihrer verfallenen Hollywood-Villa.Ein ehemaliger Kinderstar quält ihre querschnittsgelähmte Schwester in ihrer verfallenen Hollywood-Villa.
- 1 Oscar gewonnen
- 5 Gewinne & 11 Nominierungen insgesamt
- Cora Hudson
- (as Ann Barton)
- Liza Bates
- (as B.D. Merrill)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesAccording to Bette Davis in her book "This N' That," the film was originally going to be shot in color. Davis opposed this, saying that it would just make a sad story look pretty.
- PatzerIn the 1935 time line (11 minutes into the film), Ben Golden (Bert Freed) and Marty McDonald (Wesley Addy) are walking past a row of buildings in the studio discussing Baby Jane's acting. There are window air conditioners in almost every upper floor window of the 2-story building behind them. But the first window air conditioner wasn't marketed until 1938, and it wasn't until 1947 that they were mass-produced.
- Zitate
Blanche: Jane, do you remember when I first came back after the accident?
Jane: You promised you wouldn't ever talk about that again.
Blanche: I know I did. But I'm still in this chair. After all those years, I'm still in this chair. Doesn't that give you some kind of responsibility? Jane, I'm just trying to explain to you how things really are. You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this chair.
Jane: But you *are*, Blanche! You *are* in that chair!
- Alternative VersionenThe original British release was cut in two places: in Reel Four, where Jane kicks Blanche only once instead of multiple times, and Reel Six, which eliminated some shots of Blanche tied up to the bed and writhing. Both cuts were mandated by the BBFC in order to receive an "X" certificate. Subsequent reissues restored the footage.
- VerbindungenEdited into The Time That Remains (2012)
- SoundtracksI've Written a Letter to Daddy
Music by Frank De Vol
Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Performed by Bette Davis
Also performed by Julie Allred (dubbed by Debbie Burton)
But the main credit of the picture is casting together to real big names in Hollywood's history, not at their peak then but always reliable and attractive to see. Bette Davis (Jane) takes the most interesting character as the former child star that couldn't make it as an adult in show business so she has gone insane and keeps behaving as the spoiled child he was. She looks grotesque and ridiculous in her child outfits, hairdo and heavy make up. Davis is outstanding in her role and looks really mean when she tortures both mentally and physically her sister Blanche, delicate and reasonable. Joan Crawford plays Blanche and very well too, a former big star whose career ended after a strange car accident that put her on a wheel chair for life.
In the end things are not completely as they seem but the final twist is not what makes this film an extremely good one; it's the strange relationship between the sisters, that requires of that final twist to understand Blanche's tolerant conduct towards her sister.
The movie is perhaps a little too long and it would probably have been even better with a 10 minutes cut. But no doubt this is a top product in its genre and a great movie indeed.
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Box Office
- Budget
- 980.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 4.154 $
- Laufzeit2 Stunden 14 Minuten
- Farbe
- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.85 : 1