Abandoned!
- Episode aired Apr 16, 2017
- TV-MA
- 46m
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With production of Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte' underway, the feud intensifies; Bette reveals her vulnerabilities to Bob.With production of Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte' underway, the feud intensifies; Bette reveals her vulnerabilities to Bob.With production of Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte' underway, the feud intensifies; Bette reveals her vulnerabilities to Bob.
Judy Davis
- Hedda Hopper
- (voice)
Stanley Tucci
- Jack Warner
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe segment shows Robert Aldrich's long marriage to Harriet crumbling quite suddenly during the filming of "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte". It is true that their divorce was finalized in 1965, a few months after the film's opening, but Aldrich sometimes told interviewers that the marriage had, in fact, fallen apart during the period when, in exile from Hollywood after being fired from "The Garment Jungle", he had lived in Europe and made three films there (1957-60).
- GoofsThe messenger tells Crawford that the information in the envelope is "above my pay grade." The earliest recorded use of that term was in military circles in 1981; it did not begin to enter general usage until the mid-1990s, and finally became widespread when Barack Obama used it in 2009.
- Quotes
Victor Buono: Well, I remember seeing her in Humoresque. Shunned by John Garfield marching into the ocean, every hair in place. Beauty, dignity, and death, all in one exquisite pose.
- ConnectionsReferences The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
- SoundtracksDottie Ann
(uncredited)
Performed by The Royal Teens
[Bette and her party guests at the hotel are listening to the song playing on the record]
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Bette's Revenge
Feud: Bette and Joan (2017)
Episode 7: Abandoned!
Joan quickly realizes that HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE isn't going to be her movie and this is made even more clear when she learns that Bette has a producer's role on the film. Soon Joan is playing up a fake illness to hold up the production but the studio decides to fight back.
As this series moves along it's becoming quite clear that Crawford really doesn't look that good. The past three episodes have shown a very dark side to the actress and one could argue that the series is being rather brutal to her but as one of the characters says in this episode, she pretty much did it to herself. With that said, if the series was going to go this hard on her it seems like they would have been more open about some of the stuff that happened in her early childhood, which might better explain it.
With that said, the dark side of Crawford coming out gives Lange an opportunity to really act and boy does she do a remarkable job. There's no question that she's pretty much stolen the series and she continues to impress as she gets into these darker moments of the actress. She has certainly become Joan to the point where you see the character and see Crawford and not just an actress playing her.
Episode: A-
Episode 7: Abandoned!
Joan quickly realizes that HUSH... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE isn't going to be her movie and this is made even more clear when she learns that Bette has a producer's role on the film. Soon Joan is playing up a fake illness to hold up the production but the studio decides to fight back.
As this series moves along it's becoming quite clear that Crawford really doesn't look that good. The past three episodes have shown a very dark side to the actress and one could argue that the series is being rather brutal to her but as one of the characters says in this episode, she pretty much did it to herself. With that said, if the series was going to go this hard on her it seems like they would have been more open about some of the stuff that happened in her early childhood, which might better explain it.
With that said, the dark side of Crawford coming out gives Lange an opportunity to really act and boy does she do a remarkable job. There's no question that she's pretty much stolen the series and she continues to impress as she gets into these darker moments of the actress. She has certainly become Joan to the point where you see the character and see Crawford and not just an actress playing her.
Episode: A-
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