What About That Bette Davis-Joan Crawford Feud? In the next scene, we see the car "accident" that sets the rest of the events of the film in motion. Gold and the studio are desperate to legally get around the contractual stipulation. The studio is exasperated by Baby Jane slapping security, constantly drinking, and getting up to all sorts of unsavory activities. Her father panders to her every whim, cruelly scolding Blanche for refusing ice cream.įast-forward to 1935 and now Blanche is the hottest ticket in Tinseltown while Baby Jane is a "no talent broad," who the studio is obligated to hire because of a clause in her sister’s contract. The film opens in 1917 and Baby Jane Hudson is an idolized Vaudeville theatre star who performs to a packed house while her proud-as-punch father cheers her on, much to the chagrin of the misty-eyed Blanche After performing a rendition of "I Wrote a Letter to Daddy" and getting presented with a creepy lifelike replica of herself (a recurring motif throughout the movie), Baby Jane throws a tantrum backstage, demanding ice cream and refusing to take a nap. In the final scene, the police see Blanche lying in the sand and hurry over to help her.SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Who Exactly Is Baby Jane? As other people on the beach begin gravitating toward them, Jane thinks that she is surrounded by adoring fans and begins to dance for them. The police notice Jane and beg her to tell them where Blanche is. "You mean all this time we could have been friends?", Jane asks, then runs off to the concession stand to get a strawberry ice cream cone for Blanche. Because Jane was too drunk to realize what happened, she has since believed that she was responsible.
She managed to drag herself out of the car where the police found her, and they assumed that it was Jane who had run over Blanche. Blanche admits that it was she who tried to run over Jane but slammed into the gate instead and snapped her own spine. Meanwhile, Jane has gone to sit next to Blanche, who confesses that she is dying and that she has to tell the truth to Jane about what happened to her legs. A man reports to two policemen sitting at the concession stand that a black convertible is parked in the middle of the road, so they go to investigate. A radio reports that Blanche and Jane Hudson are missing, and it is presumed that Jane has forcibly abducted Blanche. The concession stand opens, and a newspaper can be seen announcing that the body of the Hudson maid was found in a Ventura suburb. As the sun comes up and the beach starts filling with sunbathers, no one notices the two sisters, one playing in the sand and the other laying in it. She drives to the beach and lays Blanche on a blanket in the sand.
Afraid that Edwin ( Victor Buono) is going to tell on her, Jane unties Blanche and moves her from the bed out into the car.
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