Joan Crawford been left near-penniless following Alfred Steele's death, accepted a small role in "The Best of Everything" (1959). Although she was not the star of the film, she received positive reviews. Crawford would later name the role as being one of her personal favorites. By 1961 Joan Crawford was once again her own publicity machine with a new script, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", sent by Robert Aldrich. Crawford starred as Blanche Hudson, an elderly, disabled former A-list movie star who lives in fear of her psychotic sister Jane, in the highly successful psychological thriller "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
Lee Remick came to prominence as a rape victim whose husband is tried for killing her attacker in Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder". In 1960, she made a second film with Kazan, "Wild River", which co-starred Montgomery Clift and Jo Van Fleet. In 1962 she starred opposite Glenn Ford in the Blake Edwards suspense-thriller "Experiment in Terror". That same year she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in "Days of Wine and Roses". Bette Davis, also nominated that year for "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", said, "Miss Remick's