Baby Jane Hudson
Fictional Character
Charles Pierce (female impersonator)Charles Pierce as Baby Jane Hudson from 1987 greeting card series Charles Pierce (July 14 1926 - May 31 1999) was one of the 20th century's foremost female impersonators, particularly noted for his impersonation of Bette Davis. Born in... In this article: Charles Pierce, Joan Collins, Bette Davis, Bea Arthur, California, Baby Jane Hudson, WWNY, Queen Elizabeth II, Joan Crawford, and Joan Rivers |
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Bette Davis
The following year, her mother died. Davis received her final Academy Award nomination for her role as Baby Jane Hudson in ''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? '' (1962), opposite Joan Crawford. In 1961, Davis opened in the Broadway...
In this article: Bette Davis, Academy Award, Jack Warner, Hollywood, June Bride, Warner Bros., Peg Entwistle, Joan Crawford, and Gary Merrill
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Baby Jane Hudson
...beach, Blanche reveals that it was she who was driving the night of the accident. When her plan to kill Jane went awry, she blamed the accident on Jane, who had been too drunk to remember. This revelation sends Jane over the edge. "You mean,...
In this article: Bette Davis, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Ice cream, Robert Aldrich, Hollywood, Oscar, and Delusion
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Wikipedia | October 30, 2009
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
...too drunk and Blanche would not let her drive home. She was also angered by the impersonation Jane had given of her at the party and believed Jane had made a laughing stock out of her to their friends and acquaintances. When arriving home,...
In this article: Blanche Hudson, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Academy Award, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Robert Aldrich, and House of Wax
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Wikipedia | October 20, 2009
Tracy Flick
...1999." The Washington Post , 1999-04-30 , p. N04. The Stranger wrote, "Like Humbert Humbert , the Reverend Harry Powell , and Baby Jane Hudson before her, Tracy Flick is a real and lasting contribution to the cinematic understanding of...
In this article: Tracy Flick, Reese Witherspoon, Hillary Clinton, Election, The Stranger, Election, and Kirsten Gillibrand
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Wikipedia | October 06, 2009
Psycho-biddy
''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? bolstered the flagging careers of its stars , Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson and Joan Crawford as Blanche Hudson. Baby Jane set many trends and more-or-less defined the genre: the theatrical performance,...
In this article: Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Charlotte, Blanche Hudson, and Shelley Winters
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Wikipedia | July 30, 2009
Debbie Burton
Debbie Burton was an American singer. She is best known for dubbing the singing voice of the young Baby Jane Hudson (played by child actress Julie Allred) in the 1962 film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, singing the song "I've Written a...
In this article: Debbie Burton, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Perry Botkin, Jr., Lukas Heller, Bette Davis, Harry Nilsson, and Julie Allred
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Wikipedia | May 24, 2009
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991 film)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Lynn Redgrave as Baby Jane Hudson and Vanessa Redgrave as Blanche Hudson. It was directed by David Greene and adapted for the small screen by Brian Taggert, based on the...
In this article: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Blanche Hudson, Vanessa Redgrave, and Lynn Redgrave
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Reason Magazine - Topics > Government Spending | May 15, 2009
Let The Dead Bury The Dead—But They Can Pay For It With a Stimulus Check!
...of dollars. In honor of zombie stimulus checks, I present for your edification and education, Miss Bette Davis performing as Miss Baby Jane Hudson performing "I've Written a Letter to Daddy," which somehow seems strangely on point re:...
In this article: Italy, RSS Feed, Social Security Administration, Bette Davis, and U.S.
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NY Post: Post Opinion | September 28, 2008
WHY CLINTON CAN'T HELP IT - New York Post
...Clinton doesn't seem to know how to share, much less exit, the stage gracefully. Worse still, like Baby Jane, he seems to have little sense of how he's horrifying his audience. How else to explain his behavior related to this year's...
In this article: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, New York Post, Baby Huey, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Hillary Clinton, Bette Davis, and Illinois
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Baby Jane Hudson is a fictional character, the villain of Henry Farrell's 1960 novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? She was portrayed by Bette Davis in the 1962 film adaptation and by Lynn Redgrave in the 1991 made for TV remake. The 1962 production is the best-known of the three, with Bette Davis earning an Oscar nomination for her performance.
At the chronological beginning of the story, "Baby" Jane Hudson is a child star in vaudeville. In the film version, a prologue set in 1917 shows her performing with her father, while her mother and sister Blanche watch from backstage. She is evidently favored and spoiled by her father, while her mother attempts to soften Blanche's anger and envy.
By the mid-1930s, Blanche and Jane are in Hollywood. Blanche is a successful actress; Jane gets film work only because her sister's contract demands it. The novel reveals that the sisters move to Hollywood to live with an aunt who favors Blanche the way their father had preferred Jane; the film leaps from the 1917 prologue to an exposition of the sisters' careers revealed through dialogue between their agent and a film producer. (Only then do the film credits roll. A woman in party clothes gets out of a car and approaches a gate. The driver's high-heeled foot steps on the clutch of her car, shifts, and accelerates.)
Blanche is paralyzed in the accident, thus ending both her career and Jane's. Jane spends the next three decades tending to her sister. With no money or career of her own, she sinks into alcoholism and mental illness. A TV retrospective honoring Blanche's old films sends Jane into a panic; she cultivates the false hope that she can revive her child act, even though she is now approaching old age.
- Name:
- Baby Jane Hudson
- Gender:
- Female
- First appearance:
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Created By:
- Henry Farrell
- Played By:
- Bette Davis
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