What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) unofficially blamed on Jane, who is found three days later in a drunken stupor. In 1962, Blanche (Joan Crawford) and Jane (Bette Davis) are living together in a mansion purchased with Blanche's movie earnings. Blanche's mobility is limited by a wheelchair and the lack of an elevator or wheelchair ramp to her upstairs bedroom. Jane has become alcoholic and mentally ill, and she treats Blanche cruelly because she resents her success. When Blanche informs Jane she intends to sell the house, Jane rightly suspects Blanche will commit her to an asylum once the house is sold. She removes the telephone
Lee Remick came to prominence as a rape victim whose husband is tried for killing her attacker in Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder". In 1960, she made a second film with Kazan, "Wild River", which co-starred Montgomery Clift and Jo Van Fleet. In 1962 she starred opposite Glenn Ford in the Blake Edwards suspense-thriller "Experiment in Terror". That same year she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in "Days of Wine and Roses". Bette Davis, also nominated that year for "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", said, "Miss Remick's