134 mins |
Rated
M (Medium level violence.)
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Starring Victor Buono, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Maidie Norman, Anna Lee
Playing alongside HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964) in a camp-tastic special event at Academy Cinemas August 31st!
You will be hosted through this double feature starring iconic cinema queens Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Olivia De Havilland and Agnes Moorhead by our very own queens, Murella and Drew Blood! These two rising drag stars will provide light entertainment before and between the features!
Expect lots of Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford-related revelry and hijinks!
Starts 5pm x
'Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), also a former child actress. Stuck living together in a mansion in old Hollywood, Blanche plots to get even with Jane for the car crash that left her crippled years earlier. But Jane is desperate to keep Blanche imprisoned as she plans a new rise to fame, and tries to hide Blanche's existence from doctors, visitors and neighbors while she devises a way to get rid of her sister.'
"Baby Jane had the chutzpah to cast Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, two has-been movie stars who famously despised each other, as has-been movie star sisters locked in a poisonous, co-dependent cycle of neediness and contempt. In a famous bit of Hollywood lore, Davis ordered a Coca-Cola vending machine for the cast and crew solely to antagonize her bitter onscreen and offscreen rival, whose husband was a Pepsi executive." [Nathan Rabin / AV Club]
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Playing alongside HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964) in a camp-tastic special event at Academy Cinemas August 31st!
You will be hosted through this double feature starring iconic cinema queens Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Olivia De Havilland and Agnes Moorhead by our very own queens, Murella and Drew Blood! These two rising drag stars will provide light entertainment before and between the features!
Expect lots of Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford-related revelry and hijinks!
Starts 5pm x
'Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), also a former child actress. Stuck living together in a mansion in old Hollywood, Blanche plots to get even with Jane for the car crash that left her crippled years earlier. But Jane is desperate to keep Blanche imprisoned as she plans a new rise to fame, and tries to hide Blanche's existence from doctors, visitors and neighbors while she devises a way to get rid of her sister.'
"Baby Jane had the chutzpah to cast Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, two has-been movie stars who famously despised each other, as has-been movie star sisters locked in a poisonous, co-dependent cycle of neediness and contempt. In a famous bit of Hollywood lore, Davis ordered a Coca-Cola vending machine for the cast and crew solely to antagonize her bitter onscreen and offscreen rival, whose husband was a Pepsi executive." [Nathan Rabin / AV Club]