Bette Davis film, "Lady for a Day"), based on a story by Damon Runyon. She accepted her next role, in the Grand Guignol horror film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962), after reading the script and believing it could appeal to the same audience that had recently made Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960) a success. She negotiated a deal that would pay her 10% of the worldwide gross profits in addition to her salary. The film became one of the year's biggest successes. Davis and Joan Crawford played two aging sisters, former actresses forced by circumstance to share a decaying Hollywood mansion.
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