Baby Jane Hudson's

[syndets2000]

...washer- I watched this movie over the weekend & caught glimpse of what looked like a very old Maytag toploader- am I correct? I was also wondering if Blanch lived or died- maybe the police got her to the hospitol in time!

 

[easyspindry]

In Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, that's a Maytag AMP clothes washer. We had one in the early 1950's that worked for 16 years. Good machines.

Jerry Gay

 

[christfr]

love those

 

[strongenough78]

I'm assuming Blanche survived. At least that's how I like to think it ended.

 

[cehalstead]

we don't know

if Blanche lived or died. The writers left it hanging....form your own conclusion. I've done a lot of internet research on her survival, and all that I find is that we were not told.

 

[stan]

Have not seen the movie in a long time

but remember assuming that she died there on the beach!

From what I've heard (from both actresses interviewed, years ago) they both insisted that the film be shot in black & White, because the story was about "tragedy"

If it was... then Blanche died on the beach.

If it's on again, I'll try to see the washing machine! Do remember the car of course! Too bad they did'nt show under the hood of that "Baby"

 

[launderess]

One Always Assumed Blanche Died

As a way to "pay" for her sins of not only trying to kill Jane all those years ago by trying to run her over with the car, but also for the mental torment she allowed Jane to live with all those years. True towards the end Jane starts to get her own back, but that was booze and mental illness setting in for good.

Still you have to hand it to Bette Davis. Few if anyone has matched her pure evil as "Jane Hudson"

"You're not going to sell this house Blanche, and you ain't gonna leave it either, *EVER*!"

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[tomturbomatic]

I saw most of the movie long ago; can't watch much of it again--too violent on too many levels. I did notice in turning through the channels the scene where Davis is dismissing the maid in the driveway. I thought I saw a dryer vent on the wall. I did not watch past that point.

 

[electronicontrl]

Yep, that's an AMP

It caught my attention years ago. Speaking of which, that movie came out in 1962 I believe........

 

[danemodsandy]

There's A Funny Story.....

....About the shooting of that final scene.

Joan Crawford had always been a glamour star, and even in "Baby Jane," she was concerned with looking as good as she could, even though her character had seen better days. Bette Davis, of course, had no such concerns.

On the day of shooting, Crawford showed up wearing her largest falsies; she maintained a collection in different sizes for different dresses and purposes. Davis rolled her eyes, and got on with shooting the scene, but after a while, she took advantage of a break to complain to director Robert Aldrich:

"I don't CARE! Blanche is supposed to be SICK, AND she's lying DOWN! Her bosoms shouldn't be sticking up like twin MATTERHORNS! I keep running INTO them like the Hollywood HILLS!"

As a look at the photo will reveal, Joan got her way.

Until, of course, the next Davis/Crawford picture, "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte."

You say, "Joan Crawford wasn't in that one?" Well, she was when they started filming, but she wasn't by the time they finished.

Bette saw to that.

 

[launderess]

Joan Crawford & "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte".

Following the unexpected box-office success of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), director Robert Aldrich wanted to reunite stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. After Crawford worked only four days, she quit the film, claiming she was ill.[3]

Alain Silver and James Ursini wrote in their book Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich?, "Reputedly, Crawford was still incensed by Davis' attitude on Baby Jane and did not want to be upstaged again, as Davis' nomination for Best Actress convinced her she had been. Because Crawford had told others that she was feigning illness to get out of the movie entirely, Aldrich was in an even worse position..." Desperate to resolve the situation, "Aldrich hired a private detective to record her [Crawford's] movements." When shooting was suspended indefinitely, the production insurance company insisted that either Crawford be replaced or the production cancelled.[3]

Davis suggested her friend Olivia de Havilland to Aldrich as a replacement for Crawford after Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Loretta Young and Barbara Stanwyck turned the role down. Leigh famously said "I can just about stand to look at Joan Crawford at six in the morning on a southern plantation, but I couldn't possibly look at Bette Davis." Although the Davis-Crawford partnership failed to be repeated, Victor Buono from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? was reunited with Davis for Hush. The cast also included Mary Astor, a friend and former co-worker of Davis' during her time at Warner Bros.[3]

Scenes outside the Hollis mansion were shot on location at The Houmas in Louisiana.[4][5] The inside scenes were shot on a soundstage in Hollywood.

From Wikipedia.org

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[stan]

Something

to consider... before too much Crawford bashing starts, is that it was Joan Crawford who found the novel written by Henry Farrell. It was Joan that that sent the novel to Aldrich, with the idea of her and Bette playing the parts, and Joan that had the guts to approach Bette with the the part!

As Davis says in her book "This and That" she "will always thank Joan for giving her the opportunity to play Baby Jane Hudsson" also, Davis says in her book that "Joan was a pro, always punctual, always knew her lines"

Davis did not win the oscar that year because of Anne Bancroft's performance the same year. Bette was very disappointed because she dreamed of being the first to win three Oscars. (ego)
They both did very well financially.
since we are talking about it... they both remain a "team" in the publics mind.

 

[tomturbomatic]

HHSC

I just looked at pictures of Houmas House and did not see the big saucer planters, not even one, nor the place where they would be featured. Maybe that scene was done on the soundstage also. It certainly was as satisfying as anything Seagal, Stallone or Schwarzenegger did to the bad guys and, maybe because it was quieter and so personal and up close, had more of the F--- you quality to it. Unless there were wires attached to the planter, I guess it had to be a one-take scene.

 

[laundromat]

It's funny that this movie was just brought up. I just watched it last friday along with "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte". It's truly amazing how both were so simalar yet different as well.Both had housekeepers who were murdered, both were rich individuals and both starred Betty Davis.I read her book during my major brain surgery ( "This and That" ) a biography Betty wrote that had the nasty letter from her daughter included at the end.

 

[twintubdexter]

I have seen "Baby Jane" dozens of times and never noticed that washer...probably was too busy taking in that fancy frock Davis is wearing in that scene.

 

[twintubdexter]

had to just sneak another comment in...

"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" was for me, slightly better than "Baby Jane" and remains one of my all-time favorite films. The scene at the dining room table where cousin Miriam gently explains to Charlotte that "there isn't anything I can do to save the house" whereby Davis twists her face into a one-person angry mob and tells her relative "WHAT do you think I invited you here for...comp-nee!!!" is just great. The line where she refers to Miriam's job in public relations as "somthin kinda dirty" is priceless too.

If you like this film and have the opportunity to see it, this campy play is great fun too. It was at the Annenberg Theatre here in Palm Springs a few years ago. I think there's a clip or two on YouTube.

 

[franksdad]

"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte"

One of my all time favorite movies also! 

 

[danemodsandy]

"Charlotte"

Let's not forget that "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" ends with some serious eye candy - the 1964 Buick Electra 225 four-door sedan that Bette makes her exit in.

 

[dynaflow]

not a Electra

Charlotte rented Olivia a 64 (225) last scene is a skylark