What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Jane: I'll bring in some tea. You like tea?
Edwin Flagg: Oh, yes. I'm quite fond of tea. You must have guessed that I'm English.
Jane: Oh, really? How nice for you.

Jane: You mean all this time we could have been friends?

Newspaper Clerk: Who the hell was Baby Jane Hudson?

Mrs. Bates: There's too many people in this town with nothing else to do but talk.

Edwin Flagg: Oh, do you mean you're really - the - Baby Jane Hudson?
Jane: Yes, I am! And I'm going to revive my act exactly as I used to do it. Of course, some of the arrangements will have to be brought up-to-date. Music changes so much, doesn't it? And you know they're desperate for new acts: television, Las Vegas, and all the clubs. Well, there are a lot of people who remember me. Lots of them.
Edwin Flagg: I don't see how you could fail.

Dr. Shelby: I don't quite understand. Is this some kind of emotional disturbance you're talking about?
Blanche: Yes, she's emotionally disturbed. She's unbalanced.

Jane: I don't understand?
Edwin Flagg: They are trying to say I'm drunk.
Police Officer: Oh, we just say that you're a little happy. Okay?
Edwin Flagg: Whose happy? I'm not happy.

Blanche: Why are you doing this to me? WHY?

Jane: Don't you think I know everything that goes on in this house?

Jane: I didn't bring your breakfast, because you didn't eat your din-din.

Blanche: Oh, please, Jane. I'm so hungry.
Jane: I have to go now.
Blanche: Just a little - please.
Jane: No! You didn't eat your din-din, so you'll have to wait till lunchtime.

Dehlia Flagg: Oh, this sounds like just the ticket, doesn't it?

Ernie, Ice Cream Vendor at Beach: I see you found that colored woman.
Police Officer: Yeah, they found her, all right.
Ernie, Ice Cream Vendor at Beach: Sure is a rotten way to get your picture in the paper. You reckon you'll ever find that Baby Jane or whatever her name is?

Dehlia Flagg: Now, listen, I won't let on who I am. You see, I'll just tell 'em I'm Mr. Flagg's sec-e-tary.
Edwin Flagg: Secretary.
Dehlia Flagg: Sec-re-tary. Well, do you know, I do believe your old Mum would be a jolly good secretary, at that.

Jane: I don't want to talk about it! Everytime I think about something nice, you remind me of bad things. I only want to talk about the nice things.

Jane: Oh, I wish Daddy could be here right now! You can never lose your talent, he used to tell me. You can lose everything else, but, you can't lose your talent.

Blanche: Its still a pretty good picture.

Jane: I wonder if you can guess who I am?
Edwin Flagg: Can you give me a hint?
Jane: Well, its not really fair to make you guess. I'm - I'm Baby Jane Hudson.

Jane: This isn't Blanche's house. It is my house and I can do what I like.

Blanche: You weren't ugly then. I made you that way.

Continuity mistake: When Victor Buono circles the ad Jane placed in the paper, the only way to contact her listed in the ad is a phone number. However, when his mother calls acting as his secretary to schedule him an appointment for 4:00, no one gives or asks for an appointment.

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Suggested correction: Jane's address is never given in the call, but Buono shows up at the house looking at a paper to find her location. The time of 4 o'clock is established in the call. (Just watched the scene again to be sure).

The address is not given in the call or is it printed in the paper. How did Flagg know where Jane lived?

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Trivia: The teenage neighbour to the Hudson sisters is Bette Davis' real-life daughter, Barbara Merrill.

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Question: At the end of the film, Joan Crawford/Blanche lies on the beach, brutalized and starved by Bette Davis/Jane. Does Blanche then die, or will Blanche continue to live? For that matter, Jane is still alive, (although probably insane), so what will happen to Jane?

Rob Halliday

Answer: Blanche's fate is left ambiguous, so it's impossible to say if she survived or not. It is not revealed in the original novel. Jane would most likely be institutionalized, seeing as she is suffering a complete break from reality at the end of the film.

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