Bette Davis Black and White by Julia A. Stern

Author:Julia A. Stern [Stern, Julia A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PER000000 Performing Arts / General, PER004030 Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism, BIO005000 Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts, HIS036060 History / United States / 20th Century, PER001000 Performing Arts / Acting & Auditioning
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 33 Elvira (Maidie Norman) and Jane’s (Bette Davis’s) staircase confrontation, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962, screen grab, 00:23:47

Figure 34 Elvira (Maidie Norman) warns Blanche (Joan Crawford) about Jane in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962, screen grab, 00:24:43

Jane’s track record for nurture is hardly propitious if we consider her own self-culture, untidy and slouchy, to cite Mrs. Bates’s daughter’s phrasing. Carrying her sister’s birdcage, Jane immediately triggers the housekeeper’s suspicion that something malicious must be afoot. In contrast, Elvira appears polished and refined in her stylish tan linen suit with white piping and black patent-leather high heels; visually, at the level of costuming and choreography, Aldrich would seem to have reversed the servant-mistress relationship.

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