'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' ending explained: All you need to know

Horror, thriller, drama film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is produced and directed by Robert Aldrich and starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. plot depicts story of an elderly former actress who, in an old Hollywood mansion, holds her paraplegic ex-movie star sister captive. Lukas Heller's screenplay is based on 1960 vel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? By Farrell Henry. movie was critically and box office acclaim after film's release and was eventually minated for five Acemy Awards.

Critics continued to praise film for its psychologically influenced black comedy, camp, and development of psycho-biddy subgenre in years after its release. film starred Bette Davis as Jane Hudson, Joan Crawford as Blanche Hudson, Victor Buo as Edwin Flagg, Marjorie Bennett as Dehlia Flagg, Maidie rman as Elvira Stitt, Anna Lee as Mrs Bates and more. For viewers who failed to understand how movie concluded, here is a look at What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ending explained

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ending explained

"Baby Jane" Hudson is a spoiled and capricious child actress who performs with her far, who serves as her manr and accompanies her on st as a pianist, in music hall atres across country in 1917. Her popularity is such that in her photo re is a line of porcelain dolls. Meanwhile, in her show, her timid older sister Blanche lives and is regarded by haughty Jane with disdain. ir circumstances experience a turnaround as sisters pass olescence; Jane's performing style falls out of fashion, and her career declines as she descends into alcoholism, while Blanche becomes an mired Hollywood actor.

Blanche's career is cut short one evening in 1935 when she is paralysed from waist down in a mysterious car crash that is ufficially blamed on Jane, who is found in a drunken stupor three days later. Blanche and Jane lived toger in a mansion in 1962 that was bought with Blanche's movie earnings. Blanche's mobility is confined to her upstairs bedroom by a wheelchair and lack of an elevator. When Blanche tells Jane that she plans to sell property, Jane rightly assumes that once house is sold, Blanche will commit her to a mental institution. She takes phone out of Blanche's apartment, cutting it off from outside world.

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A few days later, Jane was called by police to inform her that Elvira's cousin h declared her missing. Taking Blanche with her, Jane panics and prepares to leave. An intoxicated Edwin casually enters house before y can leave and finds Blanche tied to her bed. Edwin flees authorities and tifies m. Later, because she was m at Jane for insulting her at a party earlier that night, Blanche attempted to run Jane over.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ending?

Jane blamed herself for all se years. realisation, however, comes too late. Jane starts to dance before rising crowd when police arrive. Her delusion has taken over and she insists that, just as she did as a child, throng involved is an audience and she is performing. fate of Blanche isn't revealed. If she survived, it is up to audience to decide.

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