WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) ***1/2 Psychologically crippled Bette Davis looks a lot like Courney Love in her hardcore junkie days, and picks on her physically crippled sister Joan Crawford constantly. They're both great, great, but Bette steals the show with her alternately hysterical and gruesome pinball personae. Psychologically tight, rigid, and terribly on point. It's only more wonderful to know that their relationship off screen was the same-and they both wanted it. Robert Aldrich conducts controlled terror and the sense of horror rising from the onset. It's difficult to realize that the following year he directed 4 For Texas. As Bette honks, "Who needs the doctor?"
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