Hard to believe this is the same lady who played Marcia Townsend in “No More Ladies”; Mary Clay in “Forsaking All Others”; Mildred Pierce in the film of the same name....I am a huge Joan Crawford fan and really enjoyed this film but it shows you how Hollywood viewed aging women in those days when this was the only stuff offered up to legends of Crawford’s status and beauty. Just for the “sin” of aging
Well it's pretty much the same today with woman (men too) it is what it is as they say. I dunno I was a little kid in the 60s but I remember their names being huge then. When I say _they_ I meant Davis too. Like I say I was just a little kid but can remember those two names, amongst all the newbies of the time, being legendary even royalty! I think the younger generation then loved them immensely and flocked to movies like SJ, WHTBJ, Berserk, Charlotte, Ringer and more. And hey I also remember Crawford really held her own in 59s Best of Everything. I remember reading an interview Diane Baker gave years ago re that movie. She said she happened upon Crawford one day crying. It was quite a moment apparently. She felt insecure and out of place plus she'd just lost Steele whom she did really love. It was a touching article as I recall as Baker evidently knelt down by her side and said how they all felt grateful to _get_ to act alongside her and learn and how she's instrumental to the movie and so on. I dunno, I always remembered that article for some reason. I think Ms Baker really cared for her and actually I think they struck up a great friendship after. Well didn't mean to babble so and now I shall go watch SJ! Believe it or not I've never seen it. 😊
@@bruce92106Baker liked her but she was also said to be oppressive on the set and that rattled Baker. There was an anecdote she shared (on RUclips actually) about how Crawford ordered Baker to the former’s dressing room and Baker refused as she had guests present….was very controlling about hair and makeup style on set….and also forbid Baker to bring a date to a party Crawford threw (to honor Mary Martin) as he was a makeup artist and Joan felt it would be tacky and read wrong to the press since she herself was also bringing her own makeup man as a date….Baker said she felt that Crawford was “sad and lonely” and saw a lot of that come through in her desperation for public adoration.
It doesn’t happen to men, Bruce. Big male stars continue to get big films. Male Hollywood stars reach their earning peak in their 50s - it’s much earlier for women.
Saw this as a teenager back in the 1960's. Am willing to put it up against any modern Blair Witch Project, Saw, or The Ring for ability to terrify. A "for instance"...the comparatively recent "Sleepy Hollow" depicts numerous death scenes...but no comparison to this flick. Not even close.
@California Dreamin Agreed. I remember watching it with my mom. She actually gave me a 5 to 10 second warning when a victim was about to lose their head...which I didn't mind at all.
@California Dreamin Nah. The avatar is 10-11 years old. Darth Fedora I called it...turns out I wasn't the 1st to think that up by a long shot. I took the Darth Vader helmet I got in 1980 to wear for Halloween & the fedora my ex got me for Christmas 2000 & put 'em together for an avatar for my Xanga blog. Fun fact...adter the 1st Star Wars in 1977, Darth Vader was insanely popular. That 1st Halloween, the costume, consisting of only the helmet & a cape, rented for $70...some serious bread in those days. A good friend made a cape for me out of several yards of black cotton broadcloth from Minnesota Fabric's.
My brother played a joke on me by popping the heads off of my sister's full size dolls and then putting them under the blanket and on top of my pillow.
Joan Crawford played that role VERY WELL. In reality she did have a volatile temper and somehow the director noticed her capability in being a psychopath and therefore he gives her the part. I hope Christina Crawford shares this to the public.
When she decapitated that guy did you notice that brief slushing noise as the head falls off? I think that sound was dubbed in on the final edit of the film by some foley artist.
Her secretary, Betty Baker said never happened that way...Joan asked gardener for. weeks to take them out and he didn't...I would have done it myself, too...she was pissed paying someone who didn't do his job
@@lynntownsend4457I don't buy that. Why? You're exacting (and I know a lot of rich women are), you KNOW what goes on at your house. Nothing sits there a WEEK. That's ridiculous.
Two years earlier, so did her "Baby Jane" costar Bette Davis play a great crazy "old" woman (age 53). Circa 1948 Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit well played a crazy younger woman, as in 1949 did Vivien Leigh in Streetcar. Too Eleanor Parker.
One of William Castle's better films. I personally think Homicidal is his very best. Others say The Tingler, which had one of the very best gimmicks in cinema history, or House on Haunted Hill.
YES it was a truly an awful movie and Miss Crawford would be the first to say it. Now they have taken every copy off You Tube because they want you to actually PAY for it.
This promo was recreated in the FX series FEUD: Bette and Joan
Oh to visit the alternate universe where William Castle directed Psycho and Alfred Hitchcock directed Strait-Jacket.
Hard to believe this is the same lady who played Marcia Townsend in “No More Ladies”; Mary Clay in “Forsaking All Others”; Mildred Pierce in the film of the same name....I am a huge Joan Crawford fan and really enjoyed this film but it shows you how Hollywood viewed aging women in those days when this was the only stuff offered up to legends of Crawford’s status and beauty. Just for the “sin” of aging
Mildred Pierce was a great movie.
Hagsploitation in the 60s.
Well it's pretty much the same today with woman (men too) it is what it is as they say. I dunno I was a little kid in the 60s but I remember their names being huge then. When I say _they_ I meant Davis too. Like I say I was just a little kid but can remember those two names, amongst all the newbies of the time, being legendary even royalty! I think the younger generation then loved them immensely and flocked to movies like SJ, WHTBJ, Berserk, Charlotte, Ringer and more. And hey I also remember Crawford really held her own in 59s Best of Everything. I remember reading an interview Diane Baker gave years ago re that movie. She said she happened upon Crawford one day crying. It was quite a moment apparently. She felt insecure and out of place plus she'd just lost Steele whom she did really love. It was a touching article as I recall as Baker evidently knelt down by her side and said how they all felt grateful to _get_ to act alongside her and learn and how she's instrumental to the movie and so on. I dunno, I always remembered that article for some reason. I think Ms Baker really cared for her and actually I think they struck up a great friendship after. Well didn't mean to babble so and now I shall go watch SJ! Believe it or not I've never seen it. 😊
@@bruce92106Baker liked her but she was also said to be oppressive on the set and that rattled Baker. There was an anecdote she shared (on RUclips actually) about how Crawford ordered Baker to the former’s dressing room and Baker refused as she had guests present….was very controlling about hair and makeup style on set….and also forbid Baker to bring a date to a party Crawford threw (to honor Mary Martin) as he was a makeup artist and Joan felt it would be tacky and read wrong to the press since she herself was also bringing her own makeup man as a date….Baker said she felt that Crawford was “sad and lonely” and saw a lot of that come through in her desperation for public adoration.
It doesn’t happen to men, Bruce.
Big male stars continue to get big films. Male Hollywood stars reach their earning peak in their 50s - it’s much earlier for women.
"CO-STAR of 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane'?"
*hides breakables*
😂😂😂
The acting was really good, by all.
Miss Crawford deserves the Oscar
“TINA….BRING ME THE AXE!” 🪓
Listen to me! 1:08
Leave me alone! 1:05
Nobody's gonna stop it! 1:20
She was phenomenal, such rage in those lines, wonder if she channelled her rage from how her life was going at that point into her acting
Should be a ring tone.
It's called acting. She had a very modulated voice and one that wouldn't lend itself easily to screaming.
Fucking my God this woman was amazing.
But, can see top Crazy Arlene the Lysol lady in Sisters? Awful movie. But Arlene was PHENOMENAL.
Christina must have been scared out of her wits when her mother shouted "Get me the ax!!!" as seen in the movie Mommie Dearest.
That's a movie, written by a greedy man and attention seeking Christina. Not a documentary.
Pure fiction.
@@dhritidutta6231 doubt that. The minute they show alcohol use in most movies, it's way more serious than they mention. That alone causes insanity.
Amazing movie and amazing Joan Crawford 👍
Ah, the very last scene of the movie....after it says, "The End." You see the Columbia Torch Lady...headless...
Diane Baker ❤️🎥👑
She was absolutely AMAZING!
Saw this as a teenager back in the 1960's. Am willing to put it up against any modern Blair Witch Project, Saw, or The Ring for ability to terrify.
A "for instance"...the comparatively recent "Sleepy Hollow" depicts numerous death scenes...but no comparison to this flick. Not even close.
@California Dreamin
Agreed.
I remember watching it with my mom. She actually gave me a 5 to 10 second warning when a victim was about to lose their head...which I didn't mind at all.
@California Dreamin
Nah. The avatar is 10-11 years old. Darth Fedora I called it...turns out I wasn't the 1st to think that up by a long shot.
I took the Darth Vader helmet I got in 1980 to wear for Halloween & the fedora my ex got me for Christmas 2000 & put 'em together for an avatar for my Xanga blog.
Fun fact...adter the 1st Star Wars in 1977, Darth Vader was insanely popular. That 1st Halloween, the costume, consisting of only the helmet & a cape, rented for $70...some serious bread in those days. A good friend made a cape for me out of several yards of black cotton broadcloth from Minnesota Fabric's.
Scariest movie I ever watched, based on the fact that it scared me more than any other movie I ever saw. I was 10 years old.
My brother played a joke on me by popping the heads off of my sister's full size dolls and then putting them under the blanket and on top of my pillow.
Quit lying boomer
Joan Crawford played that role VERY WELL. In reality she did have a volatile temper and somehow the director noticed her capability in being a psychopath and therefore he gives her the part.
I hope Christina Crawford shares this to the public.
Now I know what Christina felt when her mother went psycho over the wire hangers.
@@jackanthony976 lol!
lol she didn't play....she was a nut in real life 2
I believe Joan Crawford over stupid attention seeking Christina. Y'all are dumb to say nonsense things.
All alkies are nuts.
No actress today like Joan.
0:23 Actual footage of Joan Crawford on the night of this movie’s premier, when she realized she made yet another B movie.
This was actually quite successful when it was released
Joan Crawford, crazy in the movie and crazy in life!
did you know her?
@@jorgemendoza7943 I hear about her abusing her adopted children.
Those bracelets! Tres chic
Looks like Joan Crawford is the Anthony Perkins parody.
Looking forward to watching and critiquing the movie
It's the ax for me.
@1.22 Tina bought her the axe lol
When she decapitated that guy did you notice that brief slushing noise as the head falls off? I think that sound was dubbed in on the final edit of the film by some foley artist.
So the mom and daughter were both killers?
I'm here for feud ;)
It's a good movie
By this time Joan had a lot of experience swinging an axe.
Her secretary, Betty Baker said never happened that way...Joan asked gardener for. weeks to take them out and he didn't...I would have done it myself, too...she was pissed paying someone who didn't do his job
@@lynntownsend4457I don't buy that. Why? You're exacting (and I know a lot of rich women are), you KNOW what goes on at your house. Nothing sits there a WEEK. That's ridiculous.
I just came here looking for Lee Majors.
Farrah's ghost brought you here.
Was the axe clean haha
joan crawford is the only one that can play a crazy old woman
Two years earlier, so did her "Baby Jane" costar Bette Davis play a great crazy "old" woman (age 53). Circa 1948 Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit well played a crazy younger woman, as in 1949 did Vivien Leigh in Streetcar. Too Eleanor Parker.
And that's a bad thing?
I'll put crazy Arlene the Lysol lady in Sisters against any of these nutty broads.
Poor Joan
One of William Castle's better films. I personally think Homicidal is his very best. Others say The Tingler, which had one of the very best gimmicks in cinema history, or House on Haunted Hill.
This was a funny movie
Where can i whatch this movie?
Library?
I saw on TikTok someone said it’s on tubi
Right here on RUclips. As of 2024.
I thought that guy was John Boy Walton or Luke Skywalker but he is one of David Carradines brothers
"Tina! Bring me the ax!" "Yes Mommy Dearest."
says the woman who was in trog
Lee majors played her husband who got his head chopped off. Uncredited.
good ol bloch
She wanted to be able to do it like Davis
You could tow a car with those eyebrows.
0:18 giggty
So the mom and daughter were both killers?
Mommie Dearest shows her true colors in this movie she was evil in real life.
I don't think she was evil, I think she was an alcoholic and none of them can handle stress or think about other people.
You both need to do some research and stop
taking everything in that foolish movie to be fact.
This was a truly awful movie.
Actually is a very good one
YES it was a truly an awful movie and Miss Crawford would be the first to say it. Now they have taken every copy off You Tube because they want you to actually PAY for it.
I think it’s actually reasonably good. Overwrought, of course, but better than you’d think.
@@mikehudson8884 Back in the 1960's you could see the film for free on regular network television as soon as it had its run at the movie theatres.
@@mikehudson8884 Try the library.
I'm 100% sure 'Pearl' took some major inspiration from this film 🪓
I had to check this out after the girl on tiktok couldn't find this movie through Google.