Farrell and the director Robert Aldrich hoped to reunite the two stars for "Sweet Charlotte," but Crawford ultimately declined. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including best actress for Davis. He said each actress used exactly the same words about the other: "I'll wipe the floor with her." Farrell's press agent, Mitch Douglas, said Davis and Crawford had been enticed into the movie by the book and the chance to co-star. She feeds her sister a dead pet canary and a scalded rat for "din-din." Miss Davis's character becomes her sister's vengeance-seeking custodian. Crawford played her sister, a former movie star who had suffered an accident that put her in a wheelchair at the peak of her career. Davis played a woman who had been a world-famous child actress but who had lost her popularity as she grew up, until all she had left were photographs and glorious memories. In "Baby Jane," the stars were Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who had never appeared together and who were both trying to revive flagging careers. Farrell made a bad joke of the command to grow old gracefully by creating once-glamorous female characters and turning them into crazy hags acting out evil fantasies. He was also a co-writer of the screenplay for the 1964 campy cult classic "Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte," which was based on one of his short stories. The "Baby Jane" movie was based on a novel Mr. Mary Bishop, his executor, confirmed his death. This edition features exclusive extra material: three previously unpublished short stories by Henry Farrell, including the inspiration for the movie Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and an introduction that reveals how the original novel came about as well as the behind-the-scenes drama of the iconic film starring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, now recreated in the TV show Feud.Henry Farrell, whose gift for writing pulpy melodrama was most famously realized in the 1962 movie "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?," died on March 29 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. And when Baby Jane decides it’s time to revive her childhood act, she won’t let anything – or anyone – stand in her way. Crippled by the accident, Blanche is helpless under the control of her abusive sister, who is slowly descending into madness.
Now, years later, the two sisters live in a decaying mansion, isolated from the outside world. As Blanche’s film career took off, a resentful Jane watched from the shadows as her own career faded into obscurity – until a tragic accident changed everything. Once an acclaimed child star of vaudeville, Baby Jane Hudson performed for adoring crowds before a move to Hollywood thrust her sister, Blanche, into the spotlight.
The literary classic that inspired the iconic film – the story of two sisters and the hell they made their home.
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