Jamie Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?has got to be the most heart-wrenching movie that I have ever seen. Those performances are phenomenal...no! They're wonderful...NO! They're...oh, I don't know. But, Heavens to Betsy, I felt so bad for Blanche. Could someone please explain to me what happens to them at the very end? Does Blanche end up dying? Thanks, all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shainablue1 Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 I also love Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? !***SPOILER**** I believe they save her just in time, because she is still alive the last we see her and as Jane dances you see people rush over to Blanche and I always assumed she was rescued. But my sympathy always shifts between the two characters. Now that I know Blanche milked her sister and tortured her with the thought she made Blanche crippled, when in fact it was her own jealousy and rage that caused her condition.Then again how unfair it was to Blanche as a child with Jane getting all the attention. Also how mean Jane was to Blanche during the movie before we know she didn't cripple her. Very good movie. I always find the part where Jane uses Blanche's voice to order liquor so creepy. Love the movie- I think I'll pop it in the VCR today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slappy3500 Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 "You wouldn't do these terrible things to me if I weren't in this wheelchair!" But you ARE Blanch, ya ARE in the wheelchair!!!" Seinfeld did a GREAT parody of this scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted April 4, 2005 Author Share Posted April 4, 2005 ReeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllY???????? What did he do? ~Jamie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted April 4, 2005 Author Share Posted April 4, 2005 Yay! I think you and I are twins!!! j/k Anyway, yeah, I commiserate with you as well on the shifting of "Now I feel bad for Blanche." and "Now I feel bad for Jane." The phone thing is creepy. And the *1* time she gets food, she doesn't open that tray!!!! ~~Jamie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slappy3500 Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 Jpo; George Costanza was in the airport lobby buying a magazine because there might be a "blurb" about him in it. On the cover was a photo of a deranged-looking man with the heading:"LA Strangler Captured". George bought the last copy as a marshall brings in the handcuffed lunatic. George gloats over his purchase as the guy tries to coax George into letting HIM buy it. The guy says : "You wouldn't dare do this if I weren't in handcuffs! Butcha ARE!! Ya ARE in the handcuffs!!!". Later as George passes the lavatory on the plane the guy drags him IN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealfuster Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 always makes me think about the relationship between June Havoc, and Gypsy Rose Lee. Personally, I think that this is one of Joan's best performances, being that it is very restrained. Bette as usual is rivetting in her grotesqueness! I love this film! I like the parts with Victor Buono, and the dead bird on the covered platter bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted April 4, 2005 Author Share Posted April 4, 2005 that is hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwtwbooklover Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Man I can't remember in which book I saw it in Christine's or a book on Crawford or Davis but Christine came to visit Joan and Davis' Daughter came to visit her mother on the set atleast there was a picture to the visit. I was totally creeped out by this movie and couldn't wait for it to be over and don't want to see it again any time soon. The question is .. were the girls present during which wretching scene?....the beginning maybe.. I can see it look honey it's a prop dead bird... creepy...let's all sit down for lunch even if I'm giving your mother hell-it's just pretend...creepy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhryun Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Oh, really did she like it? "Oh, really did she like it?" SHE liked it!! Enjoin yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vecchiolarry Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Hi GWTW, Bette Davis' daughter, B.D., would have been on the set because she was in the movie. She played the girl next door, who thought the old broads were creepy. Anna Lee played her mother. Whether Christina was on the set I don't know but it would have been interesting for them to get together and compare notes, as they had a lot in common. Although Christina was older and I don't know if they could have been friends, since their mothers were rivals. It would be interesting to see that picture of them on the set. I loved this movie. I thought it was very well written, produced and acted and it deserves its place in movie history. Everybody in it was exemplory. I remember this movie for another very embarrassing and shameful reason: When it first came out, I was in (quarantined) St. John's Hospital in L.A. suffering from viral mononucleosis (highly contagious). One afternoon, my friend Dottie snuck me out to a matinee of "WHTBJ" since I was so anxious to see it. We went on the bus 8 blocks and into the theatre. Fortunately, there weren't many people on the bus or in the theatre as I could have been a walking "Typhoid Mary". That's the making of another horror movie, don't you think?? When I got back to the hospital, the doctor gave me a right real lecture and threatened to report me to the Public Health authorities. But since I had a temperature of 102, my grandmother's lawyer pleaded delusion on my part and I escaped with the staff's derision. I was and still am ashamed of that stupid act of my life and even now that I'm older and much more conservative, I probably would shoot such an idiot. Only problem is: the idiot is me. Whenever I hear the expression, "Young and stupid", I think of that incident and whenever I think of "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?" I think of it too. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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