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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? – BONUS EPISODE 5: GRANDE DAME GUIGNOL: A CONTINUING EDUCATION
“I want this lying bitch out of my house!”
Welcome to another bonus episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, an ongoing journey through the later careers of Bette Davis & Joan Crawford. Although our travels through Bette & Joan’s post-Baby Jane years may have come to an end, our time with these leading ladies has not. This holiday season, we’ll be going back and exploring classic Bette & Joan through a variety of titles tied together by common themes. This week, we take a short break from our leading ladies for a mini-deep dive into the history of grande dame guignol, the horror sub-genre that was made popular by the success of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Critic and author of Crazy Old Ladies: A History of Hag Horror, Caroline Young, joins me as we explore this most interesting side of film through some very noteworthy titles.
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Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?)
Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.
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