Ryan Murphy (writer) in 2017. The first season focused on the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on the set of their 1962 film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?". With newcomer Steven Canals, a research assistant for Dustin Lance Black before his Master of Fine Arts at UCLA, Murphy and Falchuk launched a new series set in the Ball community in mid-1980s New York City. Murphy had wanted to adapt "Paris is Burning" as a series and Canals had been writing a script while at graduate school centered on a young African American teen made homeless for being gay, who moved
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