Double Feature! Hepburn in Suddenly Last Summer & Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Leonard Nimoy Thalia |
 |
Double Feature!
Hepburn in Suddenly Last Summer
Sun at 2 pm & 7pm, Tue at 9:30 pm
Suddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil!
“Hepburn is dominant, a genteel hammer.” –Variety
1959. USA. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 114 min. B&W. Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker.
In order to maintain the delusional memory of her deceased son, a wealthy heiress extorts a doctor into giving her niece a lobotomy in Gore Vidal’s screenplay of Tennessee Williams’ play.
Three Academy Award nominations.
Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Sun at 4 pm & 9 pm, Tue at 7 pm
“Sister, sister oh so fair, why is there blood all over your hair?”
“Together, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford constitute a dictionary definition of the elusive term ‘bitch-goddess.’” –Donna Bowman
1962. USA. Robert Aldrich. 134 min. B&W. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford.
Offstage, the two stars hated each other, but in this psychological thriller, the two divas played their hearts out—Crawford as an invalid and Davis as her demented ex-child star sister.
