Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Bette Davis, “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?,” and Crawford’s last years
Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Bette Davis, “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?,” and Crawford’s last years
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Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? has done more to define later generation’s ideas about who Crawford was than perhaps any other movie that she was actually in. Unfortunately, most of those ideas center around Crawford’s supposed feud with co-star Bette Davis, which began as a marketing ploy and turned into something quasi-real - or, at least as real as certain celebrity “feuds” of today.