The horror film director capitalized on Joan Crawford's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? success and propelled her into fright fest superstardom.
The Big Picture Heads rolled! And it was an axe-wielding Joan Crawford who got them rolling. In 1946, she was one of Hollywood's biggest stars, winning a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Mildred Pierce, the long-suffering mother who would do anything to protect her spoiled, gun-crazy daughter. Eighteen years later, she was chopping off a young Lee Majors' noggin in the cult horror classic Strait-Jacket.
More importantly, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane set Joan Crawford's career on a new path, that of horror movie grande dame. Riding on the success of Baby Jane, Aldrich quickly cast Crawford and Davis in a second horror outing, 1964's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Early into production, however, the growing animosity between the two leading ladies forced Crawford to drop out of the film, and Olivia de Havilland replaced Crawford as the movie's villainess.
William Castle and Joan Crawford Turned Up the Camp in 'Strait-Jacket' Although Joan Crawford was William Castle's second choice for the lead role of Lucy Harbin in Strait-Jacket, it's difficult to imagine any other actress playing the part. Equal parts Mildred Pierce, Female on the Beach, and Baby Jane, Strait-Jacket tells the story of a woman who is committed to a mental facility after beheading her husband and his lover in a psychotic rage.
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