wicked stepmother be the kind of movie that happen to an actor who can not understand that his or her time have pass and and that encroach illness and the approximation of death should be an indicative that maybe it would be best to relax and enjoy the accolade and retrospective and and lifetime achievement award . bette davis be come off the mild success of the whale of august when she decide to do this movie about a witch who move into a family home and cause havoc there . severely ill and barely able to remember her line and and frail a a leaf about to fall from it branch in the middle of fall and she be force to step out of film only a week after production on the movie begin . surprisingly enough and she claim problem with the script among other thing and make it clear that old age and illness have not mellow her character one bit . what she seem unable to understand that this sort of demand which she have be know for back in her prime be supremely out of style by now and and for an actress of her stature to assume she could throw her ego around just because and be push it a little . hence and her scene remain in this movie and should have probably be either delete and replace with another actress . i can only assume that the director do not have the money to replace davis and and decide to keep her character and have barbara carrera step in and add a ludicrous set up that would explain davis absence from the movie . a it be and wicked stepmother remain a bette davis last film and one that can be bypass a an gargantuan error on her behalf .