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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 63577" data-attributes="member: 57984">HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE may have my favorite music score ever -- not just the title song, but the background music. And it&#039;s certainly one of my favorite films, Top 4 or 5 easily, and I view it as the pinnacle of the &quot;hag horror/grande dame guignol&quot; genre of the &#039;60s which BABY JANE started.I like BABY JANE, and have owned a couple of copies of it over the years, but I&#039;ve just never felt about it the way I do CHARLOTTE. I guess it&#039;s just something I can&#039;t be rational about.For me, CHARLOTTE is the more forlorn picture, the relationships more layered than the entertaining crazy house that BABY JANE represents. Beyond that, CHARLOTTE always feels to me like the last vestiges of something -- the early twentieth century being swept away just as Charlotte is swept away at the end of the movie.It&#039;s all teetering on the edge of that chasm which separates both halves of the 1960s.But, as I said above, I would indeed be curious to see CHARLOTTE with Joan Crawford in her mid-&#039;60s beehive and giant choker necklaces wandering around the house at night in silence, much more overtly nefarious than she was in BABY JANE. Had Joan not foolishly allowed herself to be run off by Bette during production of the movie, I wonder if CHARLOTTE, the creepier and darker of the two films and one which hit all the gothic horror cliches more directly than most films ever have, might have emerged the better remembered picture -- with the two great divas going head-to-head while able-bodied and in more grandiose circumstances.As it is, I&#039;m almost glad that didn&#039;t happen. Yes, Crawford&#039;s I SAW WHAT YOU DID appearance and persona a year later hints at what her CHARLOTTE role might have been like (and both were photographed by B&amp;W maestro Joseph Biroc) but by her pulling out of CHARLOTTE and being replaced by the breezier DeHavilland, it allows CHARLOTTE to take &quot;second place&quot; in public perception -- which is not entirely a bad thing: the superior movie dismissed by many as &quot;a watered-down redo of...&quot;, comparatively shrouded and lost in time. Which seems to be what HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE is about to begin with.<img src="http://www.rockshockpop.com/screencaps/HushHushSweetCharlotte/02-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5rks1jAyBRI/UYH0uYXkA7I/AAAAAAABvXw/bAFp2-ZoNMQ/s1600/Hush+Hush+Sweet+Charlotte+073.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 63577, member: 57984"] HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE may have my favorite music score ever -- not just the title song, but the background music. And it's certainly one of my favorite films, Top 4 or 5 easily, and I view it as the pinnacle of the "hag horror/grande dame guignol" genre of the '60s which BABY JANE started. I like BABY JANE, and have owned a couple of copies of it over the years, but I've just never felt about it the way I do CHARLOTTE. I guess it's just something I can't be rational about. For me, CHARLOTTE is the more forlorn picture, the relationships more layered than the entertaining crazy house that BABY JANE represents. Beyond that, CHARLOTTE always feels to me like the last vestiges of something -- the early twentieth century being swept away just as Charlotte is swept away at the end of the movie. It's all teetering on the edge of that chasm which separates both halves of the 1960s. But, as I said above, I would indeed be curious to see CHARLOTTE with Joan Crawford in her mid-'60s beehive and giant choker necklaces wandering around the house at night in silence, much more overtly nefarious than she was in BABY JANE. Had Joan not foolishly allowed herself to be run off by Bette during production of the movie, I wonder if CHARLOTTE, the creepier and darker of the two films and one which hit all the gothic horror cliches more directly than most films ever have, might have emerged the better remembered picture -- with the two great divas going head-to-head while able-bodied and in more grandiose circumstances. As it is, I'm almost glad that didn't happen. Yes, Crawford's I SAW WHAT YOU DID appearance and persona a year later hints at what her CHARLOTTE role might have been like (and both were photographed by B&W maestro Joseph Biroc) but by her pulling out of CHARLOTTE and being replaced by the breezier DeHavilland, it allows CHARLOTTE to take "second place" in public perception -- which is not entirely a bad thing: the superior movie dismissed by many as "a watered-down redo of...", comparatively shrouded and lost in time. Which seems to be what HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE is about to begin with. [IMG]http://www.rockshockpop.com/screencaps/HushHushSweetCharlotte/02-1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5rks1jAyBRI/UYH0uYXkA7I/AAAAAAABvXw/bAFp2-ZoNMQ/s1600/Hush+Hush+Sweet+Charlotte+073.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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