Making of "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (AMC Backstory)
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2001 Documentary on the making of "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" with the original cast of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis
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I miss AMC when it was all classic movies. I remember them showing this one and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane". And that's where I saw them both the first time, on AMC.
I use to watch this channel all the time with my mom as a kid. First time seeing some of these older movies was because of AMC. The channel is totally different now.
I think Davis was close to her real personality in Baby Jane 😊
When AMC used to be about classics and movies.
I've always thought this was one of the best films ever made...underrated immensely, even when it remains a cult favorite. But that's why it's a cult favorite. Many people see it how I do. I see past the horror. To me it isn't a horror film. It's anything but that. It's an examination of human character. The end scene makes me cry like a baby every time.
Nobody could play a nutty old bat like Bette Davis.
Olivia was a masterful actress making the role of Mariam her own. Moorhead should have won the best supporting actress without question. What a rare find and great insight into the movie. It is one of my favorites.
It was a great story with a surprise ending twist, just as Baby Jane.
I live in a small town in Illinois . We have a small.Pepsi cola factory here. The owner of the factory lives in a mansion next door of the factory. When Joan Crawford married that Pepsi guy. She came to visit our town. This was a big deal back then in this tiny town. This was in the late 1950s.
I saw this on TV when I was about 10 years old. I had such nightmares. Bette Davis has always been my favorite actress.
Seeing DeHavilland play the conniving villain was a true surprise to me when I first saw this as a teen. It was one of the things that made this movie so memorable.
That's exactly the point where i pauzed the movie and went to internet to check out what people say about this movie, i really did not expect that, and that is what i like about movies, if it was joan i had suspected it because i saw the movie baby jane also, so i think Olivia de havilland was a very good choice to play that part👍
she was probably trying to kill the ghost of sickeningly-sweet Melanie Hamilton.
@@haintedhouse3052 the part of Scarlet, was such a total self important brat, almost narcissistic, the Melanie part had to be played that way
*BETTE DAVIS* a real 💎
They don't make any others like from Bettes era..
I have always adored her....
Agnes Moorehead was always fabulous!
I wish Joan could have finished this movie it, would have been another masterpiece
Just to correct one misstatement; Joan wasn't married to Al Steele at that time, he had died four years earlier. She was his widow and cultural ambassador for Pepsi.
My Grandfather owned a big old spooky house in Greenwood lake NJ, and it had a screened in sun porch, my aunt Lee who was a film buff let us stay up late, on a warm summer night, had to be 1969, or 70, anyway all the cousins watched this with our aunt, there was probably 7 of us, we all slept in the same room that night
that sounds like a great memory
Agnes Moorhead almost stole this movie from Davis and DeHavilland. She was phenomenal!
Bette and Olivia and Joe Cotten were excellent.
They all were fantastic actresses and yes Agnes Moorhead was great!
Agnes was great but to say she stole a thing from the others simply is a stretch.
I agree that Agnes stole the movie ! I wish she had more time in this film ...
Was that Charles Durn who had his hand chopped off? Lol
The actress that was BRILLIANT in this movie was Agnes Moorehead who nailed the part. Mary Astor also had subtle acting chops even in her small role.
Moorehead is one of my favorite actresses, though she didn't always get very big parts. One of my favorite roles of hers was for that original Twilight Zone episode where she's the only real character in the episode, on screen the entire time, doesn't utter a SINGLE word, and is totally GREAT in it. She was also good in the Bogart/Bacall vehicle "Dark Passage." Her first movie appearance was as the title character's mother in Citizen Kane.
She was un unsung star of many MANY movies & T.V..
@@Syncopator Yes! AM was a great actress!
@@forreal245 Same year, 1964, that she made her debut in the role of Endora on "Bewitched". Could she have looked more different?!
@@Syncopator And in 1944 Miss Moorehead beautifully played the bitchy caretaker aunt of young Jane Eyre, played by Joan Fontaine, Olivia deHavilland's sister.
This movie is so entertaining and enjoyable. Classic actors never let their fans down.
I am and always have been team Bette. Love this movie
Mary Astor’s character is the real villain. She sits on the truth.
Watched this from the backseat of my parents car at the drive-in. Old days...
Good drive in movie.
I think Moorehead stole the movie... She's just so GOOD in it!
She is my favorite character in the movie.
She should of won the Oscar instead of Lila Kedrova.She was great in all her scenes.
Agreed. Out of the entire cast in this movie, Agnes Moorehead was the only one to phone in an Oscar caliber performance.
SmittenKitten YES !!!!!
@@cance7984 I love her too but to say she stole the movie?? Bette was awesome as well as Olivia. Great actresses here and Joseph Cotton was very well cast in this role. He added a lot. I would not say the movie belonged to Agnes Moorehead
What for a pity that Joan Crawford didn't play in the movie Hush Hush sweet Charlotte
I watched this movie so many times. What a classic.
I adore these old classics. Back then when movies boasted an abundance of creativity because there was no relying on CGI. And it shows. I'm very elated that they've been preserved enduringly for generations to come.
ACTORS HAD TO WORK IN BETTE'S DAY LOL....
I just watched this movie for the first time today. I liked it more than "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane." Not taking anything from that classic, but this one seemed to flow better. Ms. De'haviland was amazing, but I couldn't stop looking and comparing her to Joan. It would have been a powerful piece if Joan had finished, but no one was strong enough to hold that duo together for a second time.
Hats off to Ms. Mooreheard in this film.
Completely entertaining deHavilland, Astor, and last but not least Bette Davis what a joy to watch.
Agnes Moorehead! No doubt about it! One of my favorite films of aa times! Great talent everywhere! Bette, shit! Don't get no better. Agnes should've won a Best Supporting Actress oscar! Great film.
I think Bruce Dern deserves a hand.
Ah, I see what you did there...
For me, the stand-out performance was by Mary Astor as Jewel Mayhew. She only had one major scene and she was just so commanding. Wonderful actress.
I'd love to see that lost footage.
Me too..
Me 4
Yes!!!!!
As a little girl in the 60’s I would hear the song Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte and I was fascinated because my name is “ Charlotte “ . I have always liked Bette Davis and Joan Crawford movies , the real movie stars . Not like today’s actors .
They were all great in this movie, but Agnes Moorehead was Amazing. I just loved the character she played. !!!
She reinvented herself in BATMAN as Black Widow during 1960's, as did Victor Bruno did as King Tutt [Bruno was in Whatever Happened.....]. I found out Agnes was a pal of Sir Cedric Hardwicke when I did my bio of Sir Cedric in 2006.....
@@IanP1963, that wasn't Agnes in Batman. Tallulah Bankhead played the Black Widow.
Marsha Queen of Diamonds I mean !!!
@@IanP1963 afraid you're wrong again. Marsha Queen of Diamonds was Carolyn Jones. Mortitia from Addam's Family.
@@IanP1963 Agnes Moorehead was Endora, Samantha's witch mother on Bewitched.
i also was scared to death when my mom took me to see this pic when i was 13...i will never forget being so scared I couldn't stop dreaming about it...
I saw this movie at the drive in with my parents at age 10. I was terrified. It’s still one of my favorites.
This is a great Movie..Better Davis is my all time favourite actress
Mine too. She could play any part
Me, too. I think Bette Davis was the greatest of all the famous actresses from her era.
Always..the best actress
@@annalisette5897 I think she was the best male or female in any era. Especially today and we have some excellent male actors. Just dont do enough films.
@@johnanders6234 Yeah. Bette Davis is timeless and I think you are right. She was the best.
I would go to great lengths to get to see the unused Joan Crawford footage that had to be shot again with Olivia DeHavilland.
Love how not an ounce of blood came out of the freshly chopped hand!
I wish they'd bring back AMC Backstory.
This is one of my very favorites!
One of my all time fave movies! After Baby Jane, this movie is an example of Robert Aldrich’s genious. 👍❤️
Did Bette ever think that Joan didn't will that much power for her to lose that Oscar . Maybe they weren't going to vote for her anyway. I mean Joan just accepted an award she didn't win one. Lol
OMG this movie scared the crap out of me when I was little! I can't wait to watch it again! And Baby Jane movie just great! Better than the crap out today!
I think this was de Havilland's best role. Who knew she could be so rotten?
DCFunBud their mother favored Olivia over Joan. So they were raised to not like each other.
Favoritism and alienating siblings on the parents part is wrong.
DCFunBud No no no, The Heiress is de Havilland's best role. She shows an amazing range of emotion in it. Please see it if you haven't yet done. Everything about it is top-notch, from the cast(Montgomery Clift, Sir Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins) to the director(William Wyler) to the score(composed by Aaron Copland, no less). Excellent film in every regard.
@Kyle S. Yes. Joan Fontaine said that she had to wear Olivia's hand-me-down dresses, and Olivia once first cut one to shreds.
I saw this movie at the theater when I was 10 years old and had nightmares for years. It still gives me the creeps over 50 years later.
Life is so hard for people like me... I mean, adoring both Bette and Joan.... Tough!
Agnes. moorehead. was. one. of greatest. talents. ever. i think. she. was. always cast. in. supporting. roles and. like. Barbara. Stanwyck in roles like stella. dallas. and. double. indemnity Moorehead. was. always overlooked ialways. admired. miss. Moorhead. she. will. always be missed. rest in peace miss moorehead
Lauren Bacall How sad,
Roberto Juarezsoto, agree!
Olivia de havilland still alive too 103 yrs old.
Still wish Joan Crawford would have finished this film 😢
Great film. I have seen it many times. Ms. Moorehead is the best actress as Velma in my opinion but Betty and Olivia are perfect in their parts as usual.
Vivien leigh won two Oscars playing two southern belles...
Notthefather ohh the irony..no wonder BD was threatened by her playin a Southern Belle...while BD tried to be a “belle” she overacted the shit out of this part..at times it’s comical. I just think she’s so completely overrated as an actress...not always. But let’s be real she was a very jealous woman..esp of JC and Leigh...And anyone with eyes can see why..
This is a great movie. I have it on DVD. I was in the Navy, stationed at N.A.S. Pensacola, in the early 1980's. I was stationed at VT-10. I first saw this movie on cable, one Friday or Saturday night. I was working second shift, Sunday through Thursday. Well, I came in to work one Sunday after seeing the movie the Friday or Saturday night before.
Everybody in my shop, and apparently everyone in my squadron had seen the movie. We all talked about it all night long. No one had seen the movie when it first came out in late 1964, or early '65. No one in my squadron had any idea who killed John, early in the movie. No one had a clue. I still love this movie. I watch it every now and then, even though I know who committed the murder, early in the movie.
Today's "STAR DEVA'S" don't have a thing on Joan Crawford & Betty Davis!!
I am in a rabbit hole. It all started with a Joan Crawford video coming across my recommended videos. And that’s where I found FEUD. Damn. What a great show. I grew up loving “Mommy Dearest” and “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”. I have been on CZcams for the last 2 hours watching FEUD and videos like this. And I LOVE IT!
My first encounter with Agnes Moorhead was in Bewitched and I felt she was a competent actress. It was not until I saw Agnes Moorhead in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte that I knew I was witnessing profound greatness in the cinematic arts. Agnes Moorhead was the undisputed Bomb Biggity!
Just the previews of this movie scared me so much as a kid I was never able to see the movie. Now I wish i could!
Years ago I resisted watching "Charlotte" because I didn't think it would pack the same punch as Baby Jane - no, it blows Baby Jane right out of the water.
They sure did, especially Velma.
Its on YT so see it lol.....
Because ODH is in it, a different actor helps !!!
Omgoodness!! I am 60 years old, I got the chance to watch Bette's movies!! Loved em since I was a kid..
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! Some of the scenes still give me chills. Wonderful performances. One of my all-time favorite horror movies.
These are all my favorites I can't put them in any order they're just good f****** black and white movies. Sunset Boulevard with William Holden and Gloria Swanson, Hush Hush sweet Charlotte, Mildred Pierce and whatever happened to Baby Jane. Excellent movies.
Just finished watching the series Jessica Lange did a wonderful job and Sarandon they morphed into Joan and bette
Awesome actresses
rl 2 I love the series..they both did great. But for me it was Lange who really stole the show..she really made me feel for her..if that makes sense
When we were deemed too young to watch this horror movie, my mother and her aunt, who was visiting us from Pittsburgh for a few weeks, sent my siblings and me off to bed then stayed up and watched it. Mom and Aunt Viva were scared out of their wits...and they fondly called each other "Charlotte" in an exaggerated Southern drawl until the peaceful end of Auntie's long life.
I really like these AMC Backstorys!!! AMC should make more!
I like these AMC Backstory documentaries as well. They are so informative, and they help viewers learn about what was going on behind the scenes and in between takes.
I agree,There are just so many stories to be told from the owners,direcrors, acctors, hell ,even down to Lassie There is a story. People are just so fascinated by this era.
It reminds me of the deep south when we would go on vacation in 73 - 80 . It seems so long ago now ...
The housekeeper was amazing..
Agnes
That's when actors were great.
I met Olivia DeHavilland and we talked about this movie.
1aikane how nice. Is she friendly?
I heard she has a foul mouth - everything is f ing this and f ing that with a few c words thrown in - did you find this with her ?
1aikane annnddd. Tell us more please❤️❤️❤️👏🏽
Olivia always played those sweet characters. This was against type for her and it was fascinating to watch.
Jose Hill she played a psychotic in the 80s TV movie Murder is Easy. Always was fun to see in against type parts.
She was great as a villan,loved it when she got killed
She did an excellent job.
@@jeffreyfuchs3208 This is a spoiler.
Alli can say is the word satisfaction never had more meaning when at the end Olivia de Havilland gets her just deserts from Bette Davis....it was great!!!!
noone is better than joan
Mary Astor was a GREAT actress, and a real beauty, in the 20's.
A real beauty at every age.
Loved it the first time I saw it when it was released and I still watch it today.
My daughter's name is Charlotte, born in 1967, and I would sing the song to her while holding her in my arms.
Aldrich must have had the patience of Job when Crawford was on the film.
Great movie! Classic!
How many are here because of "Betty & Joan"
undisclosedaddresss me!
+Hannah Benard me too :)
undisclosedaddresss My mother was in sort of stunned shock when my Dad died in Nov 1964. She took me to see Hush Hush. I was 7. She took my brother to see Mary Poppins. He was 14. Thank God we have a great sense of humor about it.
YO!
Me.... Feud was brilliant
Both were super stars and I miss these old movies, so much.I will try to buy them on Amazon. Coke beats Pepsi!
I love this.
Well except for the Michael Musto commentary, of course.
Notice at the 8:28 mark where there is a brief candid of Bette backstage we see her natural but the second she notices there's a camera trained on her, her face transforms to movie star glamour.
This is a true Classic on a large scale. Great performances by all, and of course I'm partial to Ms. Davis. No one has better facial expressions than her. Ms. Moorehead was good as well, and I loved Joseph Cottens Performance (always loved his voice) as well. Sadly, they don't make movies like this anymore.
'So pleased for Olivia. She needs the work' Joan C.
Olivia had retired from films, was living in Paris and raising her children, and had mightily to be seduced to America to do this film. In her later decades in the US she twice more played Southern ladies, matriarchs in the tv mini series North and South and in the film Twelve Years a Slave. Her acting was always impeccably nuanced; she became her characters.
the 2 best actresse's in the world together in a spucky flick cast and film was great
what a masterpiece!!
It kinda sags in the middle don't you think?
I saw this movie when I was in High School I liked all of the actors. They don't come this way but once.
Hard to imagine Olivia de Haviland as both this conniving cousin and sweet Melanie in "GWTW".
Not to mention an out of touch mother on the verge of incest in "Lady in a Cage"
HEEEELP - OH, PPPPLEEEEASE! I'M TRAPPED IN A PRIVATE ELEVATOR"
That's a WTF classic if I ever saw one.
Indeed, Melanie's wild grand daughter lol........
rose sharon Watch de Havilland in the final half hour of The Heiress. Hardly a 'sweet' performance.
@@jasonhurd4379 And in The Snake Pit. And as a deceptive schemer in My Cousin Rachel (1952).
@@JudgeJulieLit Indeed! Thanks for the reminder. The Snake Pit in particular is magnificent. I love Betsy Blair as the catatonic who finally opens up.
Love Agnes ❤️
This was a classic,Bette,Olivia and Agnes were great,if be curious to see Joans footage but after what she pulled at the Oscars in '63 i don't blame Bette for making things a little difficult for her,she should have expected it,it was a pretty good film anyway.
I tend to agree about Olivia. Also may have been too recent memories of Joan as the tortured sister to Bette in Baby Jane. Olivia was good as Cousin Miriam.
@@m.e.d.7997 Yes. And yet in 1952 Olivia had starred as My Cousin Rachel, a sweet-seeming schemer lady who marries Richard Burton's character for his estate.
My fav actors of all time, are, Joan Crawford & Bette Davis
ah one of my top 10 all time favorite movies
this is a great movie one of my favorite movies of all times love bettie davis so much
I love this movie!
JC looks beautiful in those pictures. Eternally beautiful and classy ❤️
Great movie!!!!
2legit64 I feel like she did, no almost to it! It was a great ensemble cast as far as that goes, but yeah, Agnes rocked it!!
I saw it the first time in 1967. Scared the life out of me.
Betty and Joan really did hate each other two strong women for sure 👍🇨🇦
One of the earliest movies I can recall going to see with my parents as a very young kid. Saw it at a drive in on vacation at the Jersey Shore. I still think of it when I see a rolled up rug. Oddly saw What ever Hapened to Baby Jane at same drive in... Still a great classic to watch
11:23 I would be down to see this film with Vivien Leigh playing not Miriam but Charlotte and Joan Crawford remaining as Miriam. I think it would be very interesting pairing. Bette Davis certainly has had her moments in the film (mostly the quieter ones) but I always thought her shrieking - like with "Help me?" at 6:37 - was a touch hard to swallow.
A few years ago, I saw an old movie starring Crawford as some carnival or circus owner. They had her face constantly hidden in shadows......obviously to attempt to make her appear younger & less-wretched than she had to have been in real life. She was supposed to be the love-interest for a couple of other characters in the story I think.
Isn't it funny how, under different circumstances, people can become either the best of friends or the worst of enemies? I think that's Crawford and Davis. Also, yes, Agnes Moorehead was the best in this movie, too. She's an unexpected gem.
I can remember my parents loading me into the station wagon yo, see this movie at the drive in.
I've always wondered what happened to the footage that Joan Crawford filmed.
Miles Montemore yes there must be some of the film put away somewhere unless Bette burned it.
LOL - She was probably having a cigarette in the film lab and gestured with it, "accidentally" touching the exposed film. I think these film studios are like the Kennedy Museum or the Warren Commission in that they seal everything for eternity and say "nothing here to see, please move it along, thank you". I'm still hoping Judy Garland footage from Valley of the Dolls sees the light of day.
It's probably long gone. When things ended up on the cutting room floor they were typically trashed. Take The Wizard of Oz as another good example of this. Prior to the version that most people are familiar with, many scenes of that film were first filmed by another director by the name of Richard Thorpe. His version of OZ was very different, and producers weren't happy with it. Thorpe was fired from the project and replaced with another director. All the footage that Thorpe filmed has been destroyed. It would have been interesting to see how different his version was, but these things were typically trashed at the time.
But was it really disposed of or is that what H'wood is saying ?
Neil Dickson Wow, never knew any of that...Thanks for the info, I'll have to check that out too
Wow.......Enjoyed this, thanks.
I remember Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte the best horror movie I’ve ever seen even to to this day. Extremely great screen play, actresses & well directed. Hollywood doesn’t have that level of turning out films that any more!!!👏👏👏
Yes Agnes Moorehead trampled every scene she was in....😍
I love this movie but I would have loved to see this with Joan Crawford. That would have been so excellent! Can you imagine what it would have been??? Still love Olivia though.
LOVE HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE AWESOME MOVIE. MY BETTE DAVIS PLAY THE HELL OUT THAT 🎥 MOVIE.