So who should star in the remake of Baby Jane?

[EricMontreal22]

Madonna and Kylie Minogue were my first choice...

In all seriousness, what a weird choice for Walter Hill, not that he's directed anything major in a while.

I had forgotten about the Redgraves' version--it was actually the first one I saw when it aired on tv and I was 11 or 12 and only knew the title. I found it really disturbing at the time...

Sadly, only some seems to be online like this torture scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DRL4Ahr8-4

Updating it to an early 90s video store culture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSWma8BYxkc&feature=relmfu

And ending in a grand tragic style in a drag bar...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWA9bGdSkkI&feature=relmfu

[Mister Matt]

Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad!

[ChanceEncounter]

What is wrong with Kidman's upper lip in that picture???

[Mister Matt]

Sarah Palin and Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin!

[Calvin]

It'll be much classier if they're both British. I say the Weakest Link lady and Sarah Ferguson.

[Addison D.]

How about Bernadette and her besty Mary T Moore?

[Jordan Catalano]

Funny story about her - She has diabetes.

[random person 112]

And that stops her from doing a role where she would have to lie in a bed all day?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

MTM looks more like a Baby Jane.

[Jordan Catalano]

Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper!!!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

"But ya do, Mayuh, ya do have diabetes!"

[Jordan Catalano]

[Addison D.]

Just out walking the dog and it hit me: Carol Burnett & Vicky Lawrence!

[madbrian]

Enjoy!


Baby Dawn

[Addison D.]

Some more ideas here...
Baby Jane casting suggestions

[dreaming]

I think Glenn Close and Meryl Streep would be an interesting pairing.

[D2]

Zan Charisse and Maureen Moore.

[Playbilly]

Knowing Walter Hill's movies he's likely to go with Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson.

Although I'd stand in line for a Janet and LaToya Jackson version!

[EricMontreal22]

Shirley Jones/Flo Henderson.

Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters' What's the Matter with Helen? was on TCM when I got home last night, which I had never seen before (even has a cameo from the lovely Swen Swenson!) and I guess is based on a screenplay by the author of Baby Jane and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. A campy blast between the lesbianism, Agnes Moorehead as a mean evangelical preacher, the use of the song Goody Goody, the gory living mannequin finale... (OK, it probably helped that I had been at the bar earlier and was prettytipsy...)

Got me thinking just how many of these "actresses Hollywood sees as too old for romantic leads go up against each other in a campy horror film with a similar title" they had for a decade or so after Baby Jane. Can people think of others? I know, well, of course the classic Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? with Geraldine Page and Ruth Gordon.

And man they had great posters...

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[taboo123]

For a couple of years now- I have always felt that casting Madonna and Cher would be perfect. For so many reasons. camp value and it would be incredibly acted on both their parts.