Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte although some are complimentary and sympathetic toward her. Willis hands her an envelope from the now-dead Jewel Mayhew, who had a stroke after hearing of the incident the previous night. The envelope contains Jewel's confession to the murder of her husband. As the authorities drive Charlotte away, she looks back at her beloved plantation. Following the unexpected box-office success of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962), director Robert Aldrich wanted to make a film on similar themes that reunited stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Writer Henry Farrell, on whose novel the film had been based, had written an
Parachute Jumper the prologue of the first film version of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) as an example of the supposedly poor quality of the film work of Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) as an adult. In an interview about his film career, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. described "Parachute Jumper" as "awful". Parachute Jumper Parachute Jumper is a 1933 American pre-Code black-and-white drama film that was directed by Alfred E. Green. Based on a story by Rian James titled "Some Call It Love", the screen production stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh. United States Marine Corps Lieutenants and pilots