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
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