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
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