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
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) parody of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" called "Wha' Ha' Happened to Baby JJ?"</nowiki> was made by Alaska and Alyssa Edwards. The backstage battle between Crawford and Davis during the production of the film is the basis for "Feud: Bette and Joan", the 2017 first season of the Ryan Murphy television series "Feud". It stars Jessica Lange as Crawford and Susan Sarandon as Davis. It premiered on March 5, 2017. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological thriller–horror film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette