Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Bette Davis and Joan Crawford come back big as a couple of hilarious old horrors in the year's most gorgeously gory bit of grand guignol...
Thank you, TIME, for a long-anticipated cover story about Joan Baez and folk singing...
...vaudeville kiddie who at the age of six is almost as famous as Mary Pickford. Spoiled rotten, she treats her parents like dirt and her little sister like a worm. But fame fades and the worm turns. When Jane (Bette) grows up, she becomes a drunk. When sister (Joan) grows up, she becomes a Hollywood star. One night in a fury Joan tries to run Bette down, but the car strikes a stone gate instead, and Joan loses the use of her legs for life. Too drunk to remember what happened, Bette thinks that she herself had been driving...
...occasion she serves a salad of unplucked parakeet-will be amply rewarded by the horror of her company. In what may well be the year's scariest, funniest and most sophisticated chiller, she gives a performance that cannot be called great acting but is certainly grand guignol. And Joan effectively plays the bitch to Bette's witch...
...Aldrich knows just when to shock for shock's sake, just when to play his gargoyles for giggles. Under his skillful management, two aging screen queens-both of them are going on 55-give a vigorous and talented answer to a question often asked: What Ever Happened to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis...