Hush, Don't Cry | HUSH… HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964) | Movie Reaction

[@channelthree9424]

4:51 he was in the naked gun movies

[@jgarofalo8813]

Southern Gothic horror is so good!

[@Jontor11]

One of the best movies of all time imo is 'All About Eve'. Bette Davis' finest performance.

[@janescribner8258]

Hearing Olivia de Havilland say "Charlotte" with the same gentleness as she would say "Scarlett" in Gone With the Wind ... to my core, I am freaked out every single time. And I love love love Bette Davis ... "Damn you; that's my land". "Get out, you smirkin' Judas". Oh, yeah, no one but Bette Davis could deliver those lines like that. Great movie. And a big shout-out to Agnes Moorehead. And I agree, it's sad. Tragic.

[@jamesharper3933]

And don't forget her line "Why you're a vile little bitch!".

[@kevind4850]

Amen to all of that. Bette rose to the very top of Hollywood stardom by taking the unglamorous roles that the other actresses rejected for fear of looking less than beautiful or being type-cast as a villain. One of my favorite "Golden Age" stars. For people who only remember Moorehead as "Endora", her movie work reminds us of what an exceptional actress she was.

[@riskey]

Perhaps Jewel Mayhew had seen _Double Indemnity_ ... 😁

[@robertjewell9727]

Probably my favorite of the Southern Gothic thrillers. The Old South in America has a sort of an "always looking to the past" characteristic about it and this film examines that really well as a very atmospheric mystery. The acting is superb and Robert Aldrich's directing is full of a dark zest. Olivia de Havilland was my role model as a very young lad for the perfect woman seeing her in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938, which you should most definitely put on your to watch list because it's a brilliantly crafted film shot in absolutely stunning Technicolor) then years later saw her in this and didn't even recognize her. Anyway, really great reaction. Good to see you back and in good health. 👍

[@AceMoonshot]

re: her in Robin Hood. She really looked good in those dresses. Which is a weird thing for me to notice since I'm not really fashion conscious. But it stuck with me to the point that I would rate them when watching it over the years. Only one dress got a real thumbs down for me lol. And she was riding Hollywood's greatest equine movie star, Trigger. Although he was known as Golden Cloud at the time iirc. Her, in those dresses, on that Palomino...easy on the eyes. But much as I loved the dresses in technicolor, for me it is the dialogue and actions. That Robin is a total Chad. Everything with the deer incident is just badass. Badass from the start, but especially how/where he chooses to finish the incident off. He not only, 'beards the lion in his own den,' he beards the whole (false) pride. And did so with style and derring-do.

[@mikecaetano]

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte is an over the top Southern Gothic melodrama with a legendary cast -- Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead and Mary Astor in her final film role. Mary Astor began her career in films during the silent era and included roles in the classic films Red Dust (1932), Dodsworth (1936), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Act of Violence (1949), and Little Women (1949). Bette Davis made her cinematic debut in 1931 and starred in many classic films -- Of Human Bondage (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Marked Woman (1937), Jezebel (1938), Dark Victory (1939), All This, and Heaven Too (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), and All About Eve (1950).

[@henryellow]

Are those your recommendations? I'll add them to my list 😉

[@jtt6650]

I requested this so I’m very excited to watch! 🤗 🍿 🎥

[@gorgiegorgie1172]

I'm so gratified you're watching movies like this one! For your next Bette Davis movie, I would suggest 'All About Eve', (1950), that one would give you a good idea of the type of roles Bette had in her past by the time she did 'Baby Jane'. And for Joan Crawford, I would recommend 'Mildred Pierce", (1945), the movie most associated with her iconic forties 'look' and the film for which she would win her Oscar.

[@jaysverrisson1536]

For Olivia de Havilland, I'd recommend 'The Heiress' (1949), for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress. As for Bette Davis, I'll break with the crowd and instead recommend 'The Little Foxes' (1941), as an opportunity for Henry to see a markedly younger Bette Davis in action. It's a great film and performance that I think is too often overlooked relative to 'All About Eve'!

[@henryellow]

Awesome, I'll make sure they're all in my movies list. Thanks for your suggestions! 😊

[@Jontor11]

This movie is wonderfully campy. It is a follow to 'What ever happened to Baby Jane' and it initially had Joan Crawford in the role as Myriam.

[@AceMoonshot]

I think Henry would have fun watching Baby Jane.

[@jaysverrisson1536]

I think 'Baby Jane' was the better film, featuring a malevolent-campy but somewhat more naturalistic performance on Bette Davis' part. Olivia de Havilland was great as the villain in 'Charlotte', however, Davis and de Havilland were friends in real life, whereas given the much-hyped personal and professional friction between Crawford and Davis, I think there would have been more energy popping between the lead characters in 'Charlotte' if Joan Crawford hadn't dropped out of the production. (And I'd LOVE to have seen Crawford slap the s**t out of Davis' character in the car scene--it would have been cinematic payback for Davis' vicious physical assault on Crawford's disabled character in 'Baby Jane'!)

[@AceMoonshot]

@@jaysverrisson1536 Totally agree with everything you said. As to Crawford dropping out, I like and respect Olivia's work. But with Crawford it would have been a totally different experience.

[@neilmcdonald9164]

​@@AceMoonshota shot of the back of Crawford's head is momentarily glimpsed in the back of the car when it arrives at the beginning 🎩

[@FilmBuff54]

Olivia de Havilland was a wonderful actor who lived to be over 100 years old, and just died a couple of years ago. She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar 4 times and won twice. She and Bette Davis were good friends, so when Joan Crawford was fired from this movie, Olivia stepped in.

[@Jontor11]

Olivia was 104 when she died! That is amazing.

[@janescribner8258]

Olivia de Havilland also took on the major studios and won, breaking the contract actor system. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Stars were signed to long-term contracts and asked to work six days a week, for long hours. If they refused to be loaned out to another studio or declined a role, they could be suspended without pay. The length of the suspension was added to that of the contract. “It was essentially a form of indentured servitude,” says Howard Suber, p

[@henryellow]

104 years old! 😯👏🏻👏🏻 I'm sure those types of contracts are still pushed onto people who don't know any better. It happens in other countries too. Actors / singers / artists are worked to the bone.

[@Col_Fragg]

Great, GREAT film!!!

[@AceMoonshot]

Call them Grande Dame Guignol, hagsploitation, or my favorite, Psycho-biddy films, but it is a genre that has Betty Davis for a queen.

[@HuntingViolets]

Bette.

[@AceMoonshot]

@@HuntingViolets Thank you. Brain fart, I suppose.

[@HuntingViolets]

@@AceMoonshot What's nice about KZbin is the ability to edit, I think.

[@AceMoonshot]

@@HuntingViolets I could edit it but I often choose to not hide my blunders, lol.

[@HuntingViolets]

@@AceMoonshot Oh, okay. Guess that wasn't too helpful then. :)

[@WUStLBear82]

No, no, no, when the government takes land for public purpose using the Eminent Domain clause, it must pay "just compensation". But people who don't want to leave disagree what that might constitute, and sometimes win. Which has upon occasion resulted in properties isolated in the midst of a highway or public utility project, and thus ultimately almost valueless when the owner needs to sell, or dies and leaves the property to heirs.

[@AceMoonshot]

I have seen photos of Imminent Domain houses in China. They call them, "Nail Houses," because the owner is stubborn as a nail, I think. But you will have a house sitting right in the middle of a 4-6 lane highway. Or apartment buildings with trains running right through the middle of the building. Yeah, good luck selling that...

[@henryellow]

Oh, is that so? Thanks for clarifying. In this movie, it seems like Charlotte was forcefully evicted and couldn't keep the house.

[@jillk368]

Psyched to watch this. Does this mean you might also be doing Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and Lady in a Cage? Two other brilliant cult classics.

[@henryellow]

I've got Baby Jane on my list. I don't have Lady in a Cage though, so I'll add that 😉

[@jillk368]

@@henryellow You'll love both.

[@jonathanriley1107]

This is one of my favorites. Enjoy!

[@pocketsand506]

Have you seen burnt offerings with Bette Davis? Another horror classic.

[@henryellow]

I haven't watched that yet. I'll get to it eventually 😊

[@jeffbassin630]

What a campy film this! Originally Joan Crawford was going to play the role of Miriam, but under rather strange circumstances she didn't.

[@HuntingViolets]

You will have to check out some of Davis's older films, like _The Lie_ with Mary Astor or a previous one with de Havilland, _In This Our Life._ Also _Old Acquaintance_ with Miriam Hopkins.

[@henryellow]

I'll add them to my list! 😉👍🏻

[@HuntingViolets]

Sad horror movie.