Gothic fiction whose best-known work was the 1960 Hollywood horror novel "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?" Farrell's novels spawned a subgenre of "Grande Dame Guignol" in the cinema, represented by such films as the 1962 film based on Farrell's novel, which starred Bette Davis versus Joan Crawford; this subgenre of films was dubbed the "psycho-biddy" genre. Many modern writers of horror (or indeed other types of fiction) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities—examples include the works of Anne Rice, Stella Coulson, Susan Hill, Poppy Z. Brite and Neil Gaiman as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King Thomas M. Disch's
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) Ever Happened to Baby Toto?" Shaun Considine's book "" (1989) chronicles the actresses' rivalry, including their experience shooting this film. Comedy duo "French and Saunders" (Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French) did a BBC episode called "Whatever Happened to Baby Dawn" on 22 March 1990. In 1991, the film was remade as a television film starring real-life sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. In 2006, Christina Aguilera adopted a new alter ego called Baby Jane after Bette Davis' character in the film. In episode 4 of , the queens' acting chops are tested in parody movie sequels of RuPaul<nowiki>'s favourite movies. A