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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

★ 7.9 · 1,152 ratings on TMDB

Sister, sister, oh so fair, why is there blood all over your hair?

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? poster★ 7.9

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

DirectorRobert Aldrich
CastAnna Lee, Anne Barton, Bert Freed, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Julie Allred
GenresDrama, Horror, Thriller
The emergence reading

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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