Victor Buono "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962). The film starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and Buono played the ne'er-do-well musical accompanist Edwin Flagg, a performance for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. Shortly after "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", Buono appeared in "Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964) as Big Sam Hollis, the father of Bette Davis, who played the title role. The film was also directed by Aldrich. In the Biblical epic "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965), Buono portrayed
Ernest Haller received his fourth nomination for "Mildred Pierce", and Crawford won the award for Best Actress. With this as a start, Haller continued to photograph Crawford in several other films, including "Humoresque" (1946) and "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" Although Haller terminated his contract with the Warner Brothers in 1951, he was the best choice to photograph Bette Davis and Joan Crawford— two of the closest actresses that Haller has worked with and the ex-Warner stars. He was brought back to photograph the only film the two would appear together. In "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", Davis made the