What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (novel) imploring her to tell them where Blanche is. The novel ends with Jane dancing, and does not reveal if Blanche survives. "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" is a 1962 American psychological thriller-horror film film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, about an aging actress who holds her paraplegic sister captive in an old Hollywood mansion, with screenplay adapted by Lukas Heller. Upon the film's release, it was met with widespread critical and box office acclaim, and was later nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Best Costume Design, Black and White. The
The Man Who Came to Dinner (film) that the actor's homosexuality would be obvious on screen. Orson Welles played the role many years later in a television adaptation of the play. Bette Davis was unhappy with the casting of Woolley. In later years, she observed, "I felt the film was not directed in a very imaginative way. For me, it was not a happy film to make; that it was a success, of course, did make me happy. I guess I never got over my disappointment in not working with the great John Barrymore." Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" observed, "Any one who happened to