Why she is put in charge of the 'care' of her sister is hard to understand, despite some mumbling about a studio 'coverup.' What results is the situation for the rest of the film, with Blanche trapped in a wheelchair in an upstairs bedroom, and Jane calling the shots. Their lives change forever when, in a mysterious incident, their car crushes Blanche against a gate, paralyzing her from the waist down. But in their 20s it is Blanche who becomes the Hollywood queen, and Jane whose appeal fades and whose movies flop. Offstage, she was a spoiled monster, screaming for ice cream, ridiculing her plain sister Blanche. The movie begins in the days of vaudeville, when Baby Jane Hudson was a child star famous for her saccharine performance of 'I've Written a Letter to Daddy' - a letter she seals with a kiss and mails to heaven. Crawford plays the quieter, kinder, more reasonable sister - and, it must be said, the less interesting. Davis was nothing if not courageous, as she abandoned all shreds of vanity and overacted her heart out. In the event, it was Davis who emerged on top, winning an Oscar nomination as the former child star who was now a shrill gargoyle with makeup pancaked all over her face. What wasn't an urban legend was that the two were fiercely competitive it's possible that each agreed to do the picture only because she was jealous of the other's starring role. This is surely an urban legend, since the actual contact takes place below frame and Crawford would not have been present for the shot. It is claimed on that in the scene where Jane kicks the helpless Blanche, Davis kicked Crawford so hard a cut required stitches. Indeed, a book was written about their mutual disdain, Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud (1989). Rivals since the 1930s, competitive, vain and touchy, they by all accounts hated each other in real life. The casting is one of the crucial successes of the film, although it is hard to imagine how Aldrich convinced the two divas to appear together. The story involves sisters who were once movie stars, played by Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

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