What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (novel) by Brian Taggert, based on the novel "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" by Henry Farrell and the 1962 theatrical film of the same name. It stars real-life sisters Lynn Redgrave as Baby Jane Hudson and Vanessa Redgrave as Blanche Hudson, in the roles previously played by Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in the 1962 adaptation. The film was adapted to contemporary times, with Blanche's film success taking place in the 1960s instead of the 1930s. Her films were being rediscovered on home video instead of television reruns. Jane had been a child film star (replacing the original's vaudeville success),
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