What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) 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 Davis and Joan Crawford, about an aging former actress who holds her paraplegic ex-movie star sister captive in an old Hollywood mansion. The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on the novel "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" by Henry Farrell. 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
Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? "Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?" is a short story by Gerald Kersh. It is regarded as a science fiction story, dealing with a tale of a man who has had immortality thrust upon him in a way that does not benefit him at all. It was first published in Kersh's own collection, "The Brighton Monster and Other Stories" (Heinemann, 1953) and later collected in the anthology "One Hundred Years of Science Fiction" (Simon & Schuster, 1968), edited by Damon Knight. In July 1945, at the conclusion of the war in Europe, a war correspondent by