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The Baby Jane Voice

posted 12 years ago by poetcomic1
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Bette perfected a sort of cracked, plaintive, nasal sort of voice in this film when she is in her worst trouble which she used to perfection also in her more poignant moments of Baby Jane. I cannot recall her using this voice in any other of her films. It is powerful, sort of child-like, nasal and marvelous.

[–] Blondfashionisto 12 years ago

So true! Even some of the dialogue was the same (or quite similar).

'That's not a hairstyle, it's a cry for help!'

[–] LetThemEatCake01 9 years ago

I believe it's the voice when she's berating her uncle for not helping her? Quite scary and even scarier as Baby Jane.

[–] poetcomic1 9 years ago

Yes, that would be the moment it really comes out as does her complete indifference to his dying.