Drive-in Saturdays

Major content warnings this week for abuse/gaslighting and forced institutionalisation. Dorian's been watching the FX series Feud, starring Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis and Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford, so we decided it was probably time to familiarise ourselves with two of the films that inspired the series. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? starred Davis and Crawford, but their feuding got so bad that Crawford was replaced with Olivia De Havilland for the follow-up, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Both are films about wealthy older women who experienced trauma in their youth and are kept in their big gothic mansions by their abusive relatives. For some reason, while Baby Jane is an iconic piece of cinema, Charlotte seems to have been comparatively forgotten, which is a shame because it turns out it's probably a better movie. Menu: - Gin - Strawberry ice cream - Sweet tea Interstitial Music: - Drive-In Saturday, David Bowie - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Bette Davis - Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Patt