

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Sister, sister, oh so fair, why is there blood all over your hair?
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
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7.9/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $980K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- beach
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- insanity
- wheelchair
- sister
- aging
- alcoholism
- murder
- hollywood
- mental illness
- invalid
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical31 Oct 1962
- TheatricalNew York6 Nov 1962
- TheatricalLos Angeles7 Nov 1962
- PhysicalDVD (exact date unknown)1 Jan 1997
- Physicaltwo-disc special edition DVD (exact date unknown)1 Jan 2006
- PhysicalDVD / Blu-ray (15th anniversary)9 Oct 2012
- PhysicalBlu-ray30 Jul 2019
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical186 Nov 1962
- TheatricalLondon2 May 1963
- Physical18VHS release (exact date unknown)1 Jan 1988
- Theatrical (limited)12A8 Oct 2004
- Theatrical (limited)12A14 Dec 2014
BrazilBR
- TheatricalL11 Jun 1964
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival11 May 1963
- Theatrical1217 May 1963
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT128 Oct 2004
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1431 Oct 1962
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? was released on 31 October 1962.
Audience reviews
2- C
Cat Ellington
3/1/2017
For this particular review, I have chosen to render my critique - in description of this timeless masterpiece - with a word from each letter of its title: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? An opus of epic proportions, the tour de force performances in this cinematic icon relay what is: Warped. Hellish. Atrocious. Tumultuous. Evil. Vile. Envious. Ruthless. Hostile. Abhorrent. Perverse. Paranoid. Enraged. …
- C8/10
CinemaSerf
9/3/2022
Now then, settle down - turn off the phone, grab some Malbec and be prepared for one of the finest examples of character-driven cinema you are ever likely to encounter. Bette Davis is the former, rather petulant, child star "Baby Jane" who rather grudgingly looks after her sister - the more critically acclaimed actress "Blanche" (Joan Crawford) as their dotage approaches in their Hollywood home. "Blanche" is largely …
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