Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Age rating
- 12A
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
- beach
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- insanity
- wheelchair
- sister
- aging
- alcoholism
- murder
- hollywood
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Bette Davis
Baby Jane Hudson
Joan Crawford
Blanche Hudson
Victor Buono
Edwin Flagg
Wesley Addy
Marty McDonald
- Julie Allred — Young Baby Jane Hudson
- Anne Barton — Cora Hudson
- Marjorie Bennett — Dehlia Flagg
- Bert Freed — Ben Golden
- Anna Lee — Mrs. Bates
- Maidie Norman — Elvira Stitt
- Dave Willock — Ray Hudson
- William Aldrich — Lunch Counter Assistant at Beach
- Ernest Anderson — Ernie
- Russ Conway — Police Officer
- Maxine Cooper — Bank Teller
- Directed
- Robert Aldrich
- Written
- Lukas Heller
Production
- Studio
- The Associates & Aldrich Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
