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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte Overview:

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) was a Horror - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Robert Aldrich and produced by Robert Aldrich and Walter Blake.

Academy Awards 1964 --- Ceremony Number 37 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Supporting ActressAgnes MooreheadNominated
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte Quotes:

Charlotte: You're a vile, sorry little bitch!
Charlotte: What do you think I asked you here for? COMPANY?
Miriam: You just can't keep hogs away from the trough, can you?
Velma Cruther: I just come for my things.
Miriam: Is my cousin one of your things?
Velma Cruther: Think I don't know a due bill when I see one?
Charlotte: Get outta here, Luke Standish! You smirkin' Judas!
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte Facts
Although she was replaced by Olivia de Havilland midway through production, Joan Crawford (then on the Pepsi board of directors) was notorious for demanding that product placement shots of her company's soft drink appear in all her pictures of that era. Perhaps to spite her, there's a shot of a rival Cola-Cola truck barreling through town just before Miriam sees Jewel Mayhew on the street.
On Friday, June 12, 1964, the last day of shooting in Louisiana, after some late-afternoon shots, Joan Crawford was relaxing in her trailer, on hand if needed for additional scenes. She apparently dozed off, because when she woke up it was dark. When she sent her maid to check when shooting would be completed, she found the place empty. The crew had packed up and left, leaving Joan at the rear of the house, in her trailer, with no transportation back to the motel. Outraged, Joan returned to Los Angeles the very next day and checked herself into Cedars Sinai Hospital.
When Joan Crawford traveled to Baton Rouge, for the location shooting, she brought along with her, her maid, hairdresser and makeup man. However, when they arrived at the airport, there was no one from the company to greet them. There had been a mistake in the schedule and everyone was filming at the mansion. Somehow, Crawford's arrival was not relayed to the proper driver.
Bette Davis's son Michael Merrill says his mother did not want to do this film, and that the idea of the head being cut off and rolling down the staircase was something she was appalled by.
Robert Aldrich had to take three planes, a train, and a taxi up a goat trail to get to Olivia de Havilland's home, which was in the Swiss Mountains. There, it took him four days to convince her to step in and replace Joan Crawford.
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