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HUSH . . . HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE. Four durable movie queens (Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor) turn a lushly photographed thriller into frightful fun, though the horrors provided by Producer-Director Robert Aldrich (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) are mostly formula...
...creaky ante bellum mansion where Charlotte has lived in unkempt seclusion for decades has to be torn down to make way for a bridge. "Dollin' Cousin" Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) arrives to help Dr. Drew (Joseph Gotten) handle the crisis and learns firsthand that the good old days are far from over. That night, in Miriam's closet, a dress is slashed to ribbons. Soon a head rolls out of a box, a hand starts picking out tunes in the music room, and heaven only knows where a body will turn...
...hand and a Lowestoft jar in the other. "Don't worry," she reassures herself. "This can't last more than a few minutes." But it does. It lasts all day, a day of wrath that changes a cultured woman into a caged beast and adds Olivia de Havilland, now 47, to the list of cinemactresses (Bette Davis, Joan Crawford) who would apparently rather be freaks than be forgotten...
Unable to open the elevator door, the woman (Olivia) presses the panic button. In the service street behind the house an alarm begins to jangle. A drunken derelict hears it, wanders up to the kitchen door, peeks in, sees a bottle of wine vinegar, deliriously smashes a window pane, enters the house and goes staggering through it in search of liquid plunder...
Lady, in short, is just a routine withdrawal from Hollywood's bottomless blood bank, but it does give Olivia a grand chance to go ape. She gibbers, growls, simpers, screeches; rolls her eyes, tears her hair, rattles the bars, climbs the walls, bawls a snatch of Alouette, jabs a villain's eyes out with some jagged metal strips; and at the climax, screaming like mad, crawls through the nearest gutter in a $400 negligee. Attagirl, Ollie...