Henry Farrell


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What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Put Her On Ex-child star Jane (Bette Davis), in one take, shrewdly thwarting her sister's plan to cut off supplies from the liquor store, then staring down Elvira (Maidie Norman), in Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, 1962.
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Clean The Cage Un-balanced former child star Jane (Bette Davis) receives neighbor Mrs. Bates (Anna Lee), then upstairs with sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), whose movie career she ended in a deliberate accident, in Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, 1962.
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Miss Big Fat Movie Star! Jane (Bette Davis), downstairs secretly contemplating a comeback, as ex-film-star sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), whom she made an invalid, goes bonkers on the buzzer upstairs, in Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, 1962.
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) -- (Movie Clip) It Shouldn't Frighten You Director Robert Aldrich’s twisted opening, Julie Allred as young Jane (who will become Bette Davis), Gina Gillespie young Blanche (later Joan Crawford), Dave Willock and Anne Barton their witless vaudeville parents, in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane, 1962, from Henry Farrell’s novel.
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) -- (Movie Clip) I Really Loved You At One Time From director Robert Aldrich’s prologue, in 1927 Louisiana Victor Buono is plantation owner Big Sam, who has instructed philanderer Mayhew (Bruce Dern) to tell his daughter (Bette Davis, playing her much-younger self in wide shots) they won’t be eloping, in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964.
Such A Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Criminal Women Director Francois Truffaut with a narrative framing device, his producer Marcel Berbert the librarian, then introducing his leads, Andre Dussollier the sociologist, Bernadette LaFont his subject, "Camille Bliss," opening Such A Gorgeous Kid Like Me, 1972.
What's The Matter With Helen? -- (Movie Clip) Moppets With Ambitious Mothers Moved from Iowa, partners and mothers of convicted murderers, now in Hollywood making a go of their new talent school, nervous Helen (Shelley Winters) revealing some history to Adelle (Debbie Reynolds), when a new character (Michael MacLiammoir) appears, in What's The Matter With Helen, 1971.

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