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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 54506" data-attributes="member: 57984">BABY JANE and CHARLOTTE are sisters: they know each other very well.Same director, writer, composer, acting troupe. So both movies have a ton in common, even structurally. Yes, BABY JANE was first. A lot of Crawford fans dismiss CHARLOTTE as &quot;cheap rip-off&quot; but I find CHARLOTTE to be the grander, more poignant film.After Olivia DeHavilland replaced Joan, she brought a breezy contrast to Bette Davis, and it worked. Still, one wonders how much darker CHARLOTTE might have been had we seen La Crawford silently wandering the halls and moors of that Louisiana plantation at midnight in her huge choker necklaces and her period beehive Medusa hairdo. It might have been almost too dark in its back-of-a-dark-closet kind of way.<img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5d/45/50/5d4550c290a28735d3a099b44c6eb0c1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/87/9d/e2/879de257f303d9f3a9fe532d4f8f1761.jpg" 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="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 54506, member: 57984"] BABY JANE and CHARLOTTE are sisters: they know each other very well. Same director, writer, composer, acting troupe. So both movies have a ton in common, even structurally. Yes, BABY JANE was first. A lot of Crawford fans dismiss CHARLOTTE as "cheap rip-off" but I find CHARLOTTE to be the grander, more poignant film. After Olivia DeHavilland replaced Joan, she brought a breezy contrast to Bette Davis, and it worked. Still, one wonders how much darker CHARLOTTE might have been had we seen La Crawford silently wandering the halls and moors of that Louisiana plantation at midnight in her huge choker necklaces and her period beehive Medusa hairdo. It might have been almost [I]too[/I] dark in its back-of-a-dark-closet kind of way. [IMG]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5d/45/50/5d4550c290a28735d3a099b44c6eb0c1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/87/9d/e2/879de257f303d9f3a9fe532d4f8f1761.jpg[/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] [/QUOTE]

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