What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? I've Written A Letter To Daddy Bette Davis Joan Crawford English
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- I noticed that the normal clip of this wasn't up, enjoy it in English. Pretty nice for Father's Day. Baby Jane Hudson (Julie Allred) plays the vaudevillian child star at the beginning of the film.
Julie Allred was an American child actress. Her only movie role was in the 1962 film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, in which Allred played the bratty, child version of Baby Jane Hudson-the adult version was played by Bette Davis.
The most tragic thing about Blanche’s childhood was those bangs.
BYEEEE😭💀
PLEASE-
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And those eyebrows.
A visual shorthand for "the unfavorite."
lol, her father plays the piano while she sings about her dead Daddy...
Alice sweet Alice
The song was popular in Vaudeville because so many men had died in the First World War. That's what the song is about. A child sending a letter to her dead father. It was something audiences could relate to at that time.
@@boygirl2996 get her Jade!
@@boygirl2996 That's so sad. "(
@@boygirl2996 I was wondering if there was a WWI connection, because it's such a creepy, atrocious song I can't believe anyone would want to listen to it.
@@boygirl2996 That's kinda a cool story though, unfortunately I can't find any evidence of this song existing before or apart from this movie.
I knew Julie and her sister for years, went to dancing school together and did shows with her. It's great to see this old footage sure brings back memories. I can't believe she has passed on, only two years older than me.
Oh wow!!! That is amazing, Thank you so much for sharing that. I've always loved this film The opening sequence is one of my most favorite parts of this movie
This scene that gives viewers chills about:
Young Jane having a shaky singing voice, singing about her dead daddy, while her father plays the piano all coerce into the following scenes to introduce what kind of a bratty child and a young mind full of herself...Jane was. Little dis she realize this part of her life will end and Vaudeville will go out of fashion. She did not try to evolve and, in years to come will be overshadowed by her sister Blanch who will be a much bigger star in the movies...then the tragedy struck, from which they will end up living together aging.
Jane with her horrofying bitterness, Blance who wanted to escape.....then we slowly decide who is slowly descending to mental madness.
That is what's making the movie beautifully thrilling and timelessly chilling! A movie that is ahead of its time.
Also shows how favoring one child over the other damages both the Golden Child and the Scapegoat
Thanks for that long yet completely obvious analysis.
@Violetta When your parents suck that badly, sometimes your siblings are the only ones who get you. Toxic parents don’t want you to be a united front.
Blanche also had her share of petty moments like adding the clause in her contracts forcing Jane to rely on Blanche knowing the damage it would do to Jane, or not telling the police what really happened during the car accident
What 😂😂😂 so you read the back of the dvd cover...
For people asking about the doll: This film was made roughly 50 years ago. Before prop stuff was truly valuable. There literally are no dolls for sell left. We're LUCKY we got things like the Ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz still on display.
Jessie, you made your comment a year ago. The film is from 1962. Sixty one years ago.
Yep, whatever wasn't reused or sold off either languished in a prop house or was simply thrown away.
@@AnnaLuchia There are several pairs floating around. One set belonged to Debbie Reynolds back in the day, the Smithsonian owns a pair, and there's a pair on display at the Academy Museum. I don't know which is which anymore but a set was on Display at Disney in the 90's but not sure if that's the same ones or a different pair.
@@Zombie_Trooper ive seen the ones in Hollywood at the Academy Museum. I've read there were like 13 pairs or some number like that. No way of knowing which ones Judy actually wore. But i guess it does not matter.
Plus, this film was made very low budget (hence why it was in black and white) and as a B movie. They didn’t think of keeping stuff like that and were shocked when they got nominated for Oscars.
The young voice of "Baby Jane" gives me the CREEPS. So does the older voice...this movie has ALWAYS been disturbing to me. Why I watch it over and over is a mystery.
Mark Watkins I like her voice. They tried to make it sound vaudevillian since it was 1917. Singer Debbie Burton was the one who did the voiceover.
Lol.
That DOLL gives me the creeps!!
Because it’s THE BEST
Yes, they did it very well....they directed Debbie Burton to sing in a more melodramatic fashion. Which was all the rage then.
I wonder what those Baby Jane dolls would go for on eBay.
I think that as well ! Who has um!?? How many were made
I think 4 or 5 life-sized doll props were created I. The image of the young actress whom portrayed young Baby Jane
Adjusted for inflation, they would sell for around $70 today!
$8,655.00
@@LATINHANDS65 hahahahaha
This use to make my Mum cry bless her...
You know, I think her voice was creepier as a kid, rather than an adults...
LOL. JUST WHAT I WAS THINKING. SOMETHING ABOUT THAT VOICE IS VERY OFF.
2Bdiscovered Probably because she was dubbed by an adult woman
Bea Green No, she wasn't! 😂 (It was Debbie Burton!)
Hey!! What about the request by a very young George Bush “I’VE WRITTEN A LETTER TO DADDY!” Oh George🤩 (fan-girlling!) he so pasty & dweamy! 😍
It does sound off, but of course that was intentional. It may sound too low and goat-like for a little girl, but later in the movie, the older Jane sings it in the same key, and it is too high, causing her to strain to hit the notes. This makes it clear that she doesn't understand she is no longer that little girl.
Both Davis and Crawford were great in the fact that they knew they werent the prettiest actresses in Hollywood and they were not afraid to take roles that did not flatter them physically. Davis more than Crawford.
Just when you think it can’t get more bizarre, they top it off with that terrifying doll of her directly next to her.
Hmmmm......Jane as a singing, dancing brat was a gargoyle and when the fame faded she grew into an even more grotesque gargoyle. Karma, I suppose.
Kind of an interesting twist. Julie Allred played the young Jane. Her family were Orthodox Jews who quickly pulled her out of show business after this movie was made because they thought the Hollywood scene was dangerous for their daughter. When I keep reading about the exploitation of child actors up until around 1990, I cannot say that I blame them.
Up until 1990? The only reason Dan Schider faced consequences was because his shows were no longer getting big views
I hate how everyone thinks thats the actual julie allred. the lady who posed as julie allred isn't actually her. my grandma is the real julie allred, and has the baby jane doll in her closet to this day. anyways enjoy your day.
Best desition ever!
I’m so glad her parents did that for her! I worked for Micky Dolenz (of The Monkees) and he starred in a show from 1956-1958 from the ages of 10-12. While he’s never said it to me directly, I’m pretty sure his parents pulled him out of showbiz for several years at the age of 12 and height of his fame for the same reason. Predators everywhere in showbiz, even still, sadly.
@@jenniferdawson6330 interesting
Gee isn't that a beautiful doll? Thank you young man that's a gorgeous doll! Folks, have you ever seen such a lovely doll? 🤣
Oooooh,,,,honey boo boo is sickening. Whatever happened to Baby Jane is an excellent movie, I love it!!
I was really annoyed at the scene that followed this one. Jane probably spend the whole morning singing and dancing and Daddy is not gonna buy her an ice cream ? YES HE WILL AND HE WILL GET 2 MORE FOR BLANCHE AND HIS WIFE. Goddam, how cheap her father could get ?
He is not cheap. Blanche said she didn’t want any and he thought she was trying to look better than her sister
Betty and Joan were absolute CLASS ACTS. True artists individually , a dynamic duo together.
physical humour
this movie makes me laugh
They hated each other's guts!
@@arthurgearheard4701 The TV movie was ridiculous and made up stuff throughout - real trash. Davis and Crawford deep distrust went back to Bette stealing Crawford's husband Franchot Tone.
Joan Crawford was an abusive monster to her daughter.
They aren’t in this video 😂 but true
'"I've written Dear Daddy, we MEESH you". (LOL)
The really ironic thing is, if you read the book, in five years time Daddy's address really WILL be Heaven above!
Why do I never forget the "lady do you mind if you take off your hat"
Maybe I march to a different drummer, but I have always found it rude for women to wear hats indoors just as much as for men.
young Blanche looks pissed off!
LOL She was.
Davey74Boy she was upset her sister and her dad treated her like crap !
of course and understandably so! I was just pointing out the obvious.
Gina Gillespie was an awesome child actress; she plays kid Blanche here, but she also appeared in an unforgettable episode of TV's The Fugitive!
Young Blanche had a natural talent that would not manifest itself until it really counted: in adulthood. Young Jane was like most typical child stars, pretty much trained like circus dogs while reciting their lines by rote and without any real feeling. When they grew up, they realized that the extent of their talent was seriously limited.
The view looks at the beginning of the scene say it all - the elder sister's envy because of what Jane and her daddy share on the stage, while she is relegated to the sidelines, and the mother with the pinched look on her face who is aware of what is happening and how her daughter feels. She even tells Blanche later that one day her (Blanche's) time will come and that it will then also be her task to look after Jane.
I know that as the film progresses, Jane is considered to be the villain because of the vicious things she has done to Blanche - but what has Blanche done to her sister in that passive-aggressive way of hers? She has made sure that Jane will always have a role in every movie for which she is signed up, but this only highlights Jane's lack of talent as compared to Blanche's talent. Not to mention that she herself has caused the accident that landed her in a wheelchair and she makes Jane believe for the rest of her life that she was the one who did it. She framed Jane for a crime she did not commit and practically was her prison warden from that time on.
So who's the more vicious one of the two?!
Obviously the dad is the villain, but so is Blanche. She's standing there like a right old misery guts at the beginning and even tried to be all timid and make Jane look bad when Jane demanded an ice cream for both herself and Blanche. Jane, I never thought her a villain at all, just an overworked and abused child who grew up to be a mistreated and abused older lady. Her only crime was that her mind finally snapped and she reverted back to childhood. Up until she killed Alvira, her actions were more childish pranks and lacking thought and consequences, compared to Blanches more sinister actions which led her to believe she'd crippled her sister and felt she was obligated to be her full time carer. Even at the end when Blanche tells her the truth as a means to clear her own conscious as she's knows she's dying, the lovely and sweet Jane's only reaction is not one of anger or rage or bitterness, it is simply the thought that all those years they could have been friends. There's nothing bad in Jane, as I said, she's just a lady who was abused her whole life and whose mind finally snapped. Jane is the victim. In my opinion 😊
@@EducatingStupids Yes, actually Blanche is the passive-aggressive one and therefore perhaps the more dangerous, and Joan Crawford would have deserved an Oscar for this role, perhaps even more than for Mildred Pierce. But this movie was marketed from the beginning as a "psychobiddy" movie and it heavily banked in on the feud between itw two leads and that perhaps damaged its reputation - unjustly. Significantly, it did not go as well when someone did a remake a few years later and cast two real life sisters (Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave) as Jane and Blanche. It just didn't work because the two leads did not hate each other in real life.
Now you're saying that Jane's the real victim, that got me thinking that she might have been a victim in more ways than already said...Her precious Daddy may not only have pushed her to be a star - who knows what really happened between them behind closed doors. Girls who are victimized in this way are often treated as "Daddy's little princess" on the outside - it would be another reason for her to become mad.
She was a very similar in her work to Jonbennet ramsey ¿ Don't You Think?
That is the movie's essence
@@christianealshut1123 quite a psychoanalysis
I'm over 70 year's old and watched this film a long time ago . Even in those days we Brit's and Irish were aware of Paedophile Hollywood as well as the American sexualisation of child pageants .
The father was creepy as hell. I feel like the little blonde was his biological child while Blanche was his step daughter. That’s how he acted.
Scariest part of the movie
Lmao! Right?? :)
For me, the scariest part is when the elderly, decrepit, ghastly Jane sings this song, believing she is as sweet as she once was. At least here she's somewhat cute.
@Toia Townes She was spoiled and entitled from the beginning.
Ikr
no i think the creepiest part was when she sang it with the doll
Poor Blanche...I know how she feels... My dad is just so proud of my computer-engineer brothers. 'My sons are engineers! One works at GOOGLE! He does software! The other works at a top secret weapons lab!'...sigh
TXRider oh Blanche snap out of it and get a job
@@devinpeirce7152 well said, Jane.
"TXRider" those are exotic jobs. Most people become dishwashers .
Don’t focus so much on what your father is saying out loud. People think more thoughts in their own minds then they do words. Your father has the same amount of love and thoughts for you, it’s just your brothers jobs are good conversation pieces. Sometimes it’s better to be under the radar, so to speak. You get more choices without reprisals from your parents.
Focus on your own goals and your own life, and your father will be proud of any success you have, because that means you value yourself to not fail. That makes them proud of their children.
But you're a bona-fide writer!
Baby Jane's father looks and talks just like John Cryer!
+Laurie Burgess that's what I thought lol
+Laurie Burgess .. I SAID THE SAME EXACT THING. JOHN COULD PLAY HIM.
Omg I was just thinking that
Thanks I was trying to figure out who he reminds me of !!!!!!!!
He does doesn’t he 😂
Those letters to daddy can tear your heart out!
" i won't forget " Blanche's best line in the movie .
The way the little boy in the audience yells out, "Deaaaddyy" is everything.
Yeah. Gotta love the fake Trans Altlantic Accent of the old films.
That little boy looked very unhealthy.
HE's the shill,right ?
@@aleshyadarling5274 the dads accent is mid Atlantic but the boys isn't really.
@@aleshyadarling5274it kind of was but wasn't. The Boston brahmins still sound like that. That's only one example.
awww she sang in her genre..nothing creepy about it..she learned the voice as a child in that day.
Her father was in a dual role. He wasn't her father during the performance. He was her manager and pianist.
Yep
Pianist looks and acts like Alan from 2 and a half men, Charlie’s brother.
I got the chills when she opened her mouth and sang
Someone else was actually singing.
Me too!😂😂😂😂
😰 me too
I got a headache
What a brat!
just one of the greatest most haunting voices ever
The actress Gina Gillespie who plays young Blanche. Look for her in the Boris Karloff "Thriller" series. The episode is entitled, "Mr. George". She is all though the episode. It was filmed a year before she did "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?". Gina is still alive, and 72 years young. I wish TCM would do an interview with her.
that boy who says "I've written a letter to Daddie!" at about 1:30 was in To Kill a Mockingbird!!! One of Jem's friends!! That voice for Jane is so eerie and campy at the same time--eerie and funny--Must be Debbie Burton--perfect for this demented film.
What is amazing is that people actually used to pay to see stuff like this.
Indeed. Vaudeville used to be all the rage way back then.
My dad died last August towards the end our relationship was not good I find myself listening to the song I definitely can relate to the sibling rivalry and one parent favoring the other parent child this movie is iconic it speaks to everyone. I was little Bobby from 10th and Oregon
The little girl that played Blance was Gina Gillespie. She was on a very good episode of Thriller, she is also the younger sister of Darlene Gillespie.
+Sheri451 I also saw her in a HITCHCOCK episode and a few other TV shows made around the time of BABY JANE.
She was a very good child actress.
Oh yeah, as well as in "The Witch", a great episode of The Fugitive.
Darlene Gillespie was a Mousekateer in the Micky Mouse Club.
How anyone can find this anything but absolutely hilarious is beyond me.
She's basically a funhouse mirror version of Shirley Temple, which I'm sure was on purpose. But good God, so creepy. 😬
Whatever Happened To Honey Boo Boo?
Oh God, at least these two girls had some talent to speak of. That fat butterball is only good for acting brainless and sleazy.
@William Brynn She is now almost 15. These days, when do people stop being children?
She got fatter and fatter and went SPLATTER!
@@sallyozuna3883 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😁
@@nassauguy48 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😁
This young lady was extremely talented and danced very well. Whether she really sang this song or not doesn't really matter because it's very catchy and intoxicating!
She managed to get a little of Bette Davis into her intonations.
What everybody says about Britney❤
So is red, red wine. Get a job.
Interesting trivia i just found out today Sept 20, 2023. The actress who played baby Jane Hudson (Julie Allred) won the role in a contest. She never acted again due to religious belief and died when she was 57 from diabetes complications. Gina Gillespie, who played the young Joan Crawford did go on to act in a few things including The Fugitive, and became a lawyer. She is still alive and guess what? Today is her birthday. September 20. Totally random accidental find just now.
@@poetcomic1 I was thinking the same thing.
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford you hate them or love them but Better and Joan opens doors for today's Hollywood and to me Joan and Bette are still the better then today's actors and actresses in Hollywood!
Ed Camp I think anyone is better then wire hanger Joan
"Better" lmfao, i def think joan was better then bette but both were talented ladies.
@@AbbaLeStrange Two of the greatest actresses of all time Period!!!!!
@@SweetNancy2704 agreed!
Amen to that
'Dear Dad, Love Jane'. Jane Frees 🍾🥂🧊 💎
I love this movie, just watched it recently!
A very fine film.
The whole film is fantastic, but an underrated performance by Dave Willock as Blanche and Jane's father. The big cheesy grin and smarmimess is just pitch-perfect.
Ready to sell monorails, speak out against the game of pool or sing me ol' bam boo.
Have you ever seen such a beeyootifull doll?
And the woman who says in the next scene “I always said it’s the parents fault in cases like this” I really think that should remain a testament to modern times and to parents nowadays too especially to parents on toddlers and tiaras and all those beauty pageant shows.
I love this movie! So many parts to laugh at
In all the stuff I've read about this movie, it's never said that this is a good song all on its own, so I'm saying it.
“A doll for each and everyone one of you”? That would be a lot of dolls! Daddy must have a warehouse doll factory in his back pocket.
And this scene and the scene that comes after with the argument between Blanche and her father with Jane being kind of manipulative is exactly what comes of giving in to your daughter’s every demand and spoiling her so badly to become a little spoilt brat well done Ray Hudson best father of the year.
I love absolutely everyone who has found themselves here 🧡💛💚💙💜🖤♥️
In so many cases, old movies are so much better than new movies (with exceptions).
Creepiness overload. Legendary.
I saw this movie on TV as a kid of maybe 10 years old. I thought it was sad not really creepy.
"I've written dear Daddy we MEESH you". 😛
So all this time, Baby Jane was Gollum?
Wild movie And so well acted.
I don't know what was creepier, that kid's voice of that dad.
There should be a prequel to Baby Jane about how she killed her parents.
Am I the only one who likes this version?????
Vicky the bunny I love this too
I like it!
so she was a shirley temple prodigy kind of thing.. how interesting
I went to see this movie when it first came out. This was before movie ratings and I was only 5 years old. It scared the crap out of me!
Before movie ratings????
@@ScribblebytesWorldwide
The movie rating system wasn't introduced until 1967 or 1968, although I think this movie had a 12+ certificate when it came out. I don't know- I wasn't there. :)
The actress who plays young Blanche is Mousketeer's Darlene Gillespie's younger sister! She now practices Law in LA!
Blanch: I...HATE...her.
That's Walter Cunningham from To Kill A Mockingbird requesting the song.😂😂😂
am I the only one who kinda likes her voice?
Yeah, I like it too but reading the comments I think we are the only ones...lol
dinh nope I like her voice
I like her voice
I like it to
I loveeee it lol
This movie scared the fire out of me when I first watched it in the theater!
確かに誰にでも出来るダンスやないね
@@おりん-s2j はい！仲間がいて良かった
Vaporwave dude
Daddy doesn't always know
You're daddy doesn't always know
Great scene from an iconic movie. Joan n Bette's characters both shined so bright in this film. 'WHTBJ' will forever be a classic
3:46 that icy stare that Blanche is giving Jane.
@MrJayBBluejay You are 1OO% correct, the young actor who hands her the doll on stage was indeed the same the same boy that played Viv's son in those early episodes of THE LUCY SHOW. And yes, vocalist Debbie Burton did the singing here for Julie Allred. There was even a record out called "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" featuring her voice with Bette Davis.
La versión es español dice:
He escrito una carta a mi padre
Ahora es mi ángel guardián.
Te extraño papito querido
deseo que estés junto a mi.
Llené la postal con mis besos
recíbelos con mucho amor.
He escrito una carta a mi padre
dice, Te Amo.
The song she is singing is about her dead father in Heaven. But her father is not dead. Very strange...
+Cat Peach It was just a requested song. Definitely not written by her and not personal to her life at all :)
+Layla Simmer Oh okay. Lol. Thanks for telling me, I love this film, but was confused.
Arguably, the father had a strong influence on Baby Jane to the point that he could have been imprinting himself on her long term. Note there were other songs in her playbook that featured "daddy". She was undoubtedly his "favorite" and could indicate an inappropriate relationship. This could explain why she stopped psychologically developing.
There set in First World Wars, many childrens' daddy dead in wars.
Hollywood just doesn't make good movies like this anymore 😔😔
Lana del Rey pls re-do the song
Ugh no, Lana would destroy it.
Lana del Rey? lol. That awful character she has been pimping out for years? One ‘woe is me’ song after another while swinging back and forth. 🤢
Ella I’m here for it, love her!
If you don't like Lana's songs and voice, just don't listen to these lmao
I spent my last birthday (a month ago) in Fire Island, NYC. At one of the bars I came across an old and drunken lady who looked exactly like the old Baby Jane. Ha,ha. I wish I had taken a picture of her. She was drunk as a skunk, wearing a flashy yellow bikini and I could swear Baby Jane had traveled in time to 2021 and she was there next to me. The creeps! Ha,ha
How odd that she magically had that envelope in her hand, when they were taking song requests. What happened if they called out "Old McDonald had a Farm?"
I would think the dad was such a sheister that he would ask the audience to shout out requests, but in the end would play the song of his own choice no matter what.
@@AndrewMacLaine You're right!
Blanche looks really pissed off !
I love the adult version when she wails off key. 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah. I like it better, too.
This is extra creepy when I sing it for my friends when I’m off my lithium.
Went over during my last 72 hour lockdown really well though.
My husband won’t watch this movie because of my proclivity to sing it when I’m falling off the deep end.
💀💀
What a beautiful doll!! Love this song & the film!! A Classic forever & I love you dad xxxxxx
The best song for Father's Day!!!
Yeah, but Dad has to be dead first! :D
@@nassauguy48 her dad is cute by the way
Dope track. 🖤🕊️🕊️
Great film
Blanche in this scene looks jus like Jennifer Coloney !
She did a fabulous job with the accent, though. It seemed so natural that it never occurred to me how much work it must have been. Now you've got me wanting to watch it again. Her wardrobe was fantastic and she looked like an angel when they dressed her up for the party.
"People stop and stare; they don't bother me. For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be! Let the time go by, I won't care if I
can be here on the street where you live!"
The girl who plays baby Jane's sister looks identical to the teenager daughter from Di'rent Strokes. ( actress Dana Plato) 😲😲😲
Bette davis plays the crazy sister Baby jane's character, but, in real life Joan Crawford who played Blanch was crazy in real life
God I love this movie. Unlike a lot of people in the comments, I actually really like Baby Jane's singing voice. It's very sweet and I think the song is nice too. It's such a shame that she fell apart in the way that she did though.
Desiree Mejia one of my favorite bette movies. Along with all about Eve!
Young Blanche is a cute little girl too.
Even as a child she was creepy...
You can tell black people weren't allowed in that theater LOL
+DreamboyNYC lol
+DreamboyNYC Why, because everyone was civil and there wasn't trash thrown around? LOL
Hey, you are right..............On the other hand, maybe black people weren't keen on such kind of music.......After all, they had their own music and churches, which no white people visited...........
DreamboyNYC if you're from New York, neither were Jews or Puerto Ricans!!!
Maybe it's because we were making history in Harlem and that allowed the white people to sneak in and copy or music and dancing. You child!
If they did a new kind of melancholy version of this song I’d want to hear Fiona Apple sing it.
It would be a good song to honor fallen veterans.
The vocal for this song is done by Lesbiana Clamittia
One of my favorite songs but I like Bette Davis version the best.
This movie is in the top Five of my all time favorites. I have great respect for Ms. Davis' incredible performance, unmatched by any actress EVER.
That voice! I love this song!
How can a child singing sound like a crazy old lady ?
Foreshadowing XD
That’s not the little girl singing she is lip syncing.
One of my favourite films!
$3.25 in 1917 is worth $61.15 in 2016.
For a doll like that the price is too high in both years. LOL
Oh cool thanks