IA and it shows how much of a range she had. On the other hand I can’t see Joan doing “Baby Jane”

@@NS-vw8pm No, Joan Crawford was quite one dimensional

Love it!

I like yr profile picture. The cats blue eyes !

@@jessiejames7492 Awwww thanks jessie 😀

I disagree. Blanche was a total b**** who played the victim and gaslit her own sister for decades and let others mistreat Jane and talk badly about her and never once tried to stop it. Blanche got wha5 she deserved in the end.

She was hell wasn't she in real life? Abused her adopted kids (well, they say that).

She usually played sympathetic characters. Check out her films.

Yeaahhhh just like her film with Garbo in grand hotel

When asked by a reporter, if Betty Davis was truly a b🐩tch in real life Betty Davis simply answered “no I’m a lady in real life. I just get hired to play the b🐕tch’s. Joan, on the other hand always gets cast to play the ladies. What does that tell you?“

Yeah! She’s like the joker!

@@andrewtodaro2874 You are so right! She’s totally 💯% Bette! 😊

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That's one of the most disturbing things l've ever seen. And I didn't have a problem w clowns til then.

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Nah, just Bette IMO. Joan is old-school playacting, Bette is frighteningly real.

@@marccardiff You are obviously an amateur... devoid of the knowledge of the finer points and subtlety of a good acting performance.. very delusional..

Fully agree.

Crawford didn't go unpunished.

No she wasn't. Anne Bancroft deserved it. Watch her performance in "The Miracle Worker." You will change your mind.

@@australorp6367 No, I won't. Ms. Bancroft had somebody to base her character on. Ms. Davis created the look and attitude of Baby Jane. The only reason she didn't get the Oscar was because of the very jealous, very childish Ms. Joan Crawford.

@@bostonbean Bancroft did give a lovely performance

@@bostonbean total BS, only in Davis' own warped mind.

What other films do you recommend? I agree it’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen

It's great fun and I like the film but let's not go overboard with top 10 all time.

It’s actually very slow-moving

@@rebex7907 The Bad Seed 1956...

@@jm7804It’s definitely one of the best of that decade.

And she was right. Also, it's creepier in BW

That was a true statement Bette made, as was also why 'Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte' was not filmed in color, as it in her words "would have looked like Gone With The Wind"...

Black and white is better.

These two performances were incredibly good, and the complexity in which Joan Crawford portrays Blanche evokes sympathy every time I watch it despite the truth behind her character. That's real acting.

this film was shot on a color negative .. meant for back white

Same as the phone call to the liquor store.

Same as when she pretended to be Blanche on the phone to the liquor store, Joan had to dub her real voice in as (she said) “nobody can ever imitate me”, which made her extremely happy lol.

I agree. And when u read the terrific book this is based on, u get insight into what is going on inside what was left her mind. Really perfectly acted!!

This makes me want to watch it in color

Good question! Olivia DeHavilland sure showed her acting chops as Cousin Miriam! What a contrast between this character and Melanie Wilkes!

@@E.K.2003 and even "Woman in a cage '

I love Olivia de Havilland but I think that HHSC would have been MUCH better with Joan Crawford in the role.

@@firenze5555 when sweet Olivia de Havilland turned on Bette and hauled off and slapped the crap out of her and got nasty, got the guy rolled up in a rug and got him in the trunk of the 64 Buick Electra, really got me, loved her in that part

@@califdad4 Yes, it was a great film. I just like the chemistry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.

Bette Davis was no angel in real life either.

True that. Two talented beastly beauties.

@@jessebacon817 Bette D didn't take any 💩from anyone but she was nowhere near as wicked as Ms Crawford

​@@joethelion6016 I think u believe Joan daughter book and that's shallow from u go do ur research and you'll find her daughter made that book up for money and exposure look it up and that movie mommy dearest was so extra even the writter of books of lies didn't like it and said it's over the top

@@Blumoon_vii Don't tell me to do my research twit, you don't even know me 😆 Crawford had mental health issues, Bette Davis didn't

Alison. Off screen she was a really horrible person. Even her daughter said this in an interview. BD and JC never got on because they fell for the same man in real life so BD was jealous of that and the feud never stopped. PC. 06. 08. 2022.

@@1952mrpdc we arent talking about offscreen, most hollywood actors are stuck up b****s anyways, as an actress she was awesome though.

She was a bully she had a younger sister who was mentally challenged she'd drag her by the arm and say I'm making the money so you do as I say

​​@@1952mrpdcI realized later that the Feud series was built up to show a real feud between the two women. Bette in interviews always said Joan was a professional and knew her lines. Bette was the same. In 1935 Bette made a movie with an actor Joan was seeing. They had sex. Joan found out and married him anyway. Bette fell for him. That was said to be what started the feud. Anyway there is truth and fiction about their famous feud. And Bette was robbed of the oscar. And I wouldn't believe a word that her so called christian daughter said about anything.

That was Joan, they used her voice to overdub and Bette mouthed it

@@rcperry2000 I was wondering as well and i thought it's just too good to mimick that

I thought the same thing!

Watch Doctor Zhivago & Lawrence of Arabia.

...and to think, she went on to work for at least 25 more years after she played Baby Jane Hudson! One of Hollywood's true legends.

Gabriel Sanz, I thought Joan had blue eyes. They are not blue on my computer in this movie.

I hardly consider being in your fifties Advanced age!

@@freddie3206 Yes, Joan had turquoise blue eyes and "Baby Janes" wig was a "yellow blonde"..

@@kjgammon1658 Her grave stone gives her year of birth as 1908 which would make 53/54 at the time of this film , she looks older.

@@kjgammon1658 Joan was born in 1905 and this film is from the year 62' so Joan would be 57 or 58 years old. Almost 60 years was a dinosaur age for cinema at that time. And considering that 60 years is not an old woman but an advanced and very mature age.

You're exactly right.. much better in black and white.. most horror movies are better in black and white for the mood, lighting, and shadows. Coloring does this Injustice.

@@kjgammon1658 Yes absolutely. Things are far more sinister in black and white

I completely agree with you!

@@joethelion6016 YES!

I disagree the color contrsdting with her white face and extreme red lips ane blush is more terrifying and noticable

The white face wad definitely for black and white to make her look more old

@@Power_Crystals Actually, Davis said she came up with the whiteface makeup after deciding that Jane wouldn't bother to wash her face -- she'd just lather on another layer of pancake..

This looks amazing, I'd love to see the entire film in color

The dress was red that Joan Crawford wore in the film as per some colour shots that had been taken for the film

It looks like crap with color added

Stephen. The colour ruins the film. It was supposed to be in black and white. By the way, it was never made in colour even though people think it was. PC. 06. 08. 2022.

@@1952mrpdc It doesn't ruin the movie. It just drastically changes it. It's less a thriller than a horror film. It looks like the set and Davis are rotting away.

@@1952mrpdc what the fuck

@@ashleyshoop Dear Ashley. You want to look up what the word F... Actually means because you don't know. I do PC. 16. 09. 2022.

Actually it's more like putting sugar water over a roast.

The rumor is they really hated each other.

They were two giants of Hollywood ! They gave an outstanding performance together!

This is my list too ... but you forgot PSYCHO !

@@leeann5442 PSYCHO came a little later but I did catch the end when I was 7 or 8 and seeing Anthony Hopkins talking about a fly in his rubber room made it even worse!

@@lonwolf8245 "Perkins" lol

Exactly 😂

You didn't know about that? Yea, she came up with it herself too. She did her own make up.

It was filmed in black and white for the same reason some like it hot was filmed in black and white , to make very heavy make up ( on bette davis ,Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon) look more realistic.

It was depicted in the show feud as well

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But Joan did get the Oscar, at least temporarily!!

Joan Crawford was a very good actress, far better than she ever realised. But she was a very needy person and she needed to be loved in a controlling, insecure way. So she tried to bully Bette Davis into liking her, by buying her gifts etc. But Bette would have none of Joan's guileful ways and the more Joan tried the more Bette rebelled against what she rightly perceived as Joan's attempts to gain control. Though this is probably apocryphal, Bette apparently said of Joan "If you hang around her long enough, you'll pick up all kinds of shit".

Eh. A woman locked upstairs for what, decades, taken care of by her mentally disturbed sister, would not have looked or acted as angelic as Joan probably insisted that she would be. She looked as beautiful as could possibly be - conditioned hair, rosy lips - while her character was slowly dying on the beach. That kind of choice was good for her image but it did not make for a compelling climax.

NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!

Joen. JC was not paralysed. When BD picked her of the bed they had to weigh her down with a special belt to make it more awkward for BD to lift her off the bed. Watch the dinners being given to JC by BD. She was trying to kill / starve her to death. In the film BD was to say the least JEALOUS of her sister. Watch BD ordering the Gin. Making out she was her sister. JC was unable to go downstairs. JC played the paraplegic. They both went to a party one night. BD was so drunk she could not drive. In the film you see JC turn round as she is opening the gates to the drive. Not thinking BD would put her foot on the accelerator and drive into JC . This is all explained either during the film or at the end. The beach scene shows BD has lost it completely. This is why I have said watch it several times to understand what really happened. You cannot take it all in one go. PC. 02. 08. 2022.

This short sample is enough of what might have been. I find black & white draws me in and keeps me there in a way color doesn't. People that refuse to see a film for this reason are brain-dead pieces of s---- that deserve the constant over stimulation saturation of the latest Marvel comic film or whatever the latest they-all-look-alike film is. Don't even bother with people like that William. They're not fit to lick your feet, OR maybe that's all they're fit for. Uggghk.

On the contrary - there are many who think it is heresy to see a B&W film "colorized" (or as I call it, "bastardized"). It was shot in B&W and meant to be seen in B&W. Color destroys it.

The scene where Blanche was watching the television... You can actually see the 'wood glow' in the furniture! Well Done!

Your comment is very funny 🤣.

Ive seen it like 5 times in the last 3 weeks now... dont ask me "did u like it😬" .... "YEAH... i liked it" (kicks door closed behind me as i leave"

A colorized version of Mildred Pierce already exists. It was colorized by Turner entertainment