Baby Jane Hudson characters, "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte", also starring Davis as a mentally unstable recluse lost in her delusions. Jane and Blanche's story is parodied in an apocryphal comic strip in "" by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. In this film, director Robert Aldrich mined the careers of his two stars, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford (who played Blanche), by using their early (circa 1930s) film clips when the story called for examples of their characters' work. The other characters react to clips of Bette Davis's early roles with dismay at her "bad acting", and when clips of Joan Crawford's old movies
Parachute Jumper the prologue of the first film version of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) as an example of the supposedly poor quality of the film work of Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) as an adult. In an interview about his film career, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. described "Parachute Jumper" as "awful". Parachute Jumper Parachute Jumper is a 1933 American pre-Code black-and-white drama film that was directed by Alfred E. Green. Based on a story by Rian James titled "Some Call It Love", the screen production stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh. United States Marine Corps Lieutenants and pilots