What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) caricature. Bette Davis' make-up could very well have been done by Charles Addams, Joan Crawford's perils make those of Pauline look like good, clean fun and the plot piles one fantastic twist upon another until it all becomes nonsensical." Brendan Gill of "The New Yorker" was somewhat negative as well, calling the film "far from being a Hitchcock—it goes on and on, in a light much dimmer than necessary, and the climax, when it belatedly arrives, is a bungled, languid mingling of pursuers and pursued which put me in mind of 'Last Year at Marienbad.' Still, Bette Davis and Joan
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) Ever Happened to Baby Toto?" Shaun Considine's book "" (1989) chronicles the actresses' rivalry, including their experience shooting this film. Comedy duo "French and Saunders" (Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French) did a BBC episode called "Whatever Happened to Baby Dawn" on 22 March 1990. In 1991, the film was remade as a television film starring real-life sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. In 2006, Christina Aguilera adopted a new alter ego called Baby Jane after Bette Davis' character in the film. In episode 4 of , the queens' acting chops are tested in parody movie sequels of RuPaul<nowiki>'s favourite movies. A