Robert Aldrich up to "Baby Jane", "Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964), made for the Associates and Aldrich at 20th Century Fox. Bette Davis starred as a Southern woman who lives in a mansion and thinks she is going insane. Davis was to be reunited with Joan Crawford, but Crawford left the film and was replaced by Olivia de Havilland. The movie was popular, though not as successful as "Baby Jane". Aldrich stayed at Fox for his next film, the all-male action story "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965), with James Stewart, Richard Attenborough and Peter Finch. The film was a commercial disappointment
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) of "The Washington Post" also liked the film, writing that "Miss Davis has the showiest role and bites into it with all her admired force, looking a fright from head to foot. I doubt if she would regret some of the laughs she gets. She plays for them and psychologically, they are needed. If Miss Crawford has the passive role, that is not without rewards. Suffering is one of her particular gifts." "The Monthly Film Bulletin" wrote that numerous directorial techniques, including all the plunging shots down the staircase, made the film look "rather like an anthology of the oldest