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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 90656" data-attributes="member: 57984">It is interesting how similar the two movies are, yet distinct (the same team almost entirely made both films). Olivia DeHavilland brought a breezy contrast to Bette Davis which was nice, while Joan Crawford would have seem a bit more like Bette herself.Yes, they&#039;d already done BABY JANE together, but in that one Crawford was non-ambulatory and seemed like the obvious victim (at least until the end). But in CHARLOTTE, Joan would have been able-bodied and capable of battle, and whose malevolence, or at least snobbery, would have been evident probably from the very beginning.I&#039;ve said before that I can easily imagine Crawford silently wandering the moors and halls of that bayou plantation at midnight in her mid-&#039;60s beehive and giant choker necklaces, and that it might have made an already terribly dark picture even darker in a back-of-the-dark-closet kind of way than it already was. (One can get a sense of how that would have seemed in William Castle&#039;s otherwise-shlocky I SAW WHAT YOU DID a year later, even photographed by the same DP, Joe Biroc, a master of B&amp;W mood camerawork).I like it with Olivia, and appreciate the note&nbsp; she brought it. But I have to admit I&#039;m curious about how it would have wound up had Joan completed the picture.Too much like Hallowe&#039;en? If such a thing is possible.<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/aaa_Hush_Hush_color.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RsigVSLnBQI/VwDyw1vyauI/AAAAAAAATwg/ILdVwGapdqMp9DICFbJ_Dhm-kS01lJz-A/s1600/Agnes-Moorehead-Joan-Crawford-Olivia-de-Havilland-Hush-Hush-Sweet-Charlotte-1964.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iHydL5r4RHQ/Vv-x_-rOquI/AAAAAAAATvs/iZcwmxBWZ6c_rlHP-6A9kN-J-lrSxaUMg/s1600/Olivia-de-Havilland-Hush-Hush-Sweet-Charlotte-1964.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 90656, member: 57984"] It is interesting how similar the two movies are, yet distinct (the same team almost entirely made both films). Olivia DeHavilland brought a breezy contrast to Bette Davis which was nice, while Joan Crawford would have seem a bit more like Bette herself. Yes, they'd already done BABY JANE together, but in that one Crawford was non-ambulatory and seemed like the obvious victim (at least until the end). But in CHARLOTTE, Joan would have been able-bodied and capable of battle, and whose malevolence, or at least snobbery, would have been evident probably from the very beginning. I've said before that I can easily imagine Crawford silently wandering the moors and halls of that bayou plantation at midnight in her mid-'60s beehive and giant choker necklaces, and that it might have made an already terribly dark picture even darker in a back-of-the-dark-closet kind of way than it already was. (One can get a sense of how that would have seemed in William Castle's otherwise-shlocky I SAW WHAT YOU DID a year later, even photographed by the same DP, Joe Biroc, a master of B&W mood camerawork). I like it with Olivia, and appreciate the note she brought it. But I have to admit I'm curious about how it would have wound up had Joan completed the picture. Too much like Hallowe'en? If such a thing is possible. [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/aaa_Hush_Hush_color.jpg~original[/IMG] [IMG]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RsigVSLnBQI/VwDyw1vyauI/AAAAAAAATwg/ILdVwGapdqMp9DICFbJ_Dhm-kS01lJz-A/s1600/Agnes-Moorehead-Joan-Crawford-Olivia-de-Havilland-Hush-Hush-Sweet-Charlotte-1964.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iHydL5r4RHQ/Vv-x_-rOquI/AAAAAAAATvs/iZcwmxBWZ6c_rlHP-6A9kN-J-lrSxaUMg/s1600/Olivia-de-Havilland-Hush-Hush-Sweet-Charlotte-1964.JPG[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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