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* ShrineToSelf: Jane keeps numerous old photos of herself in her room.
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* FollowTheLeader: After the success of the film, several other movies were made featuring mentally unstable older women. The genre was referred as "psycho-biddy".
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* FollowTheLeader: After the success of the film, several other movies were made featuring mentally unstable older women. The genre was commonly referred to as "psycho-biddy".
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Elvira.
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* [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: [[spoiler:Jane murders Elvira, after she finds out that Jane is keeping Blanche as a captive]].
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* [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: [[spoiler:Jane murders Elvira, [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Elvira]], after she finds out that Jane is keeping Blanche as a captive]].
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Blanche, as it turns out.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Blanche]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Blanche]][[spoiler:Blanche.]]
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* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler:Blanche's ''supposed'' death, and Jane's final descent into madness,]] take place at a crowded beach on a sunny day.
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* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler:Blanche's ''supposed'' presumed death, and Jane's final descent into madness,]] take place at a crowded beach on a sunny day.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: One of the most extreme examples.
* TheResenter: Both sisters.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: One of the most extreme examples.
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* TheResenter: Both sisters.
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Aging sisters Blanche (Crawford) and "Baby" Jane Hudson (Davis) live together in a decaying mansion in Hollywood. Jane was a child star of {{vaudeville}} in the 1910s, but her fame disappeared a long time ago. Blanche was a successful film actress, but she was crippled in a mysterious car accident, involving Jane.
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Aging sisters Blanche (Crawford) and "Baby" Jane Hudson (Davis) live together in a decaying mansion in Hollywood. Jane was a child star of {{vaudeville}} in the 1910s, but her fame disappeared a long time ago. Blanche was a successful film actress, but she was crippled in a mysterious car accident, accident involving Jane.
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At the late 1930s, Bette Davis was on a top of her game.
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* SelfDeprecation: When the filmmakers were looking for bad films of Bette Davis to use for Jane's bad films, she said any of her late 1930s ones would do.
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* SelfDeprecation: When the filmmakers were looking for bad films of Bette Davis to use for Jane's bad films, she said any of her late early 1930s ones would do.
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* [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: Elvira.
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* [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: Elvira.[[spoiler:Jane murders Elvira, after she finds out that Jane is keeping Blanche as a captive]].
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* [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: Elvira.
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* GildedCage" Blanche's room is quite nice, but unfortunately her sister wouldn't let her leave.
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* GildedCage" GildedCage: Blanche's room is quite nice, but unfortunately her sister wouldn't let her leave.
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* AxCrazy: Jane
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* AxCrazy: Jane devolves into this.
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* BigFancyHouse: Jane and Blanche's mansion.
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* GildedCage" Blanche's room is quite nice, but unfortunately her sister wouldn't let her leave.
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No point in having the whole thing spoilered out, since someone has to highlight to find out what\'s being spoiled.
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* [[spoiler: BecomingTheMask: Jane is a horror only because she thinks she is, thanks to Blanche's lie.]]
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''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'' is a classic 1962 thriller starring Creator/BetteDavis and JoanCrawford. It was adapted from a novel by Henry Farrell.
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''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'' is a classic 1962 thriller starring Creator/BetteDavis and JoanCrawford.Creator/JoanCrawford. It was adapted from a novel by Henry Farrell.
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''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'' is a classic 1962 thriller starring BetteDavis and JoanCrawford. It was adapted from a novel by Henry Farrell.
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''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'' is a classic 1962 thriller starring BetteDavis Creator/BetteDavis and JoanCrawford. It was adapted from a novel by Henry Farrell.
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I think it fits; she didn\'t actually have a heart of gold, of course, but she had the image of a sweet, innocent blonde.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: This was the image Jane projected to the public as a star but in reality she was very much BlondesAreEvil.
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* CainAndAbel: Jane and Blanche Hudson, respectively.
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Hair Of Gold has been renamed to Hair Of Gold Heart Of Gold as per this thread
due to being miused for any character with blonde hair regardless if they fit the personality traits required (innocent, pure of heart, good, beautiful, young) . Zero Context Examples, shoehorns, and examples with insufficient context will be removed
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* HairOfGold: This was the image Jane projected to the public as a star but in reality she was very much BlondesAreEvil.
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changing to more specific sub trope
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The fact that Jane is blonde and wears white, while Blanche has black hair and wears dark clothes, should be the first clue that all is not as it seems. It's especially noticeable because Blanche's name ''means'' "white."
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* GoodColorsEvilColors: The fact that Jane is blonde and wears white, while Blanche has black hair and wears dark clothes, should be the first clue that all is not as it seems. It's especially noticeable because Blanche's name ''means'' "white."
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** It's quite possible the roles are reversed when the sisters go to live with their aunt, who openly favors Blanche the same way their father favored Jane.
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* CreepyChild: Little Blanche, who seems to spend all of Jane's shows fixing her with a DeathGlare.
* CreepyDoll: The Baby Jane Hudson doll- creepy and menacing before anything even happens.
* CreepyDoll: The Baby Jane Hudson doll- creepy and menacing before anything even happens.
* MommasBoy: Edwin.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: One of the most extreme examples.
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* TheResenter: Both sisters.
* TheResenter: Both sisters.
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* BitchAlert: The moment Jane steps off the stage in her first scene you know she's going to be trouble.
* CurseCutShort: Jane calling Blanche a bitch is drowned out by the sound of the buzzer.
* DefrostingIceQueen: A really dark example. Jane starts off the film as a grumpy and bitter old woman but as she gets herself further into trouble she unravels and behaves more like a frightened child.
* HairOfGold: This was the image Jane projected to the public as a star but in reality she was very much BlondesAreEvil.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Jane was an angelic little girl and a reasonably attractive young woman but has now grown old and is a complete mess. Averted with Blanche who has aged well enough.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Jane was an angelic little girl and a reasonably attractive young woman but has now grown old and is a complete mess. Averted with Blanche who has aged well enough.
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* MadnessMakeover: Jane went from being a very pretty but troubled young woman, to a crazy old biddy who never washes her face, styles her hair in ringlets and looks more disheveled as her grip on sanity loosens.
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* RageAgainstTheReflection: Jane when she gets a good look at herself in the dance mirror.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: We never find out what Jane wrote about Blanche on her fan letters with Elvira only saying "I can't remember the last time I saw words like that written down".
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it is unknown if she had died
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* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler:Blanche's death, and Jane's final descent into madness,]] take place at a crowded beach on a sunny day.
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* GenreLaunch: Though rather defunct now, the film started the psycho-biddy genre.
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* GenreLaunch: GenrePopularizer: Though rather defunct now, the film started the psycho-biddy genre.
