Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

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?

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Harry Willis: You're my favorite living mystery.
Charlotte: Have you ever solved me?

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Velma Cruther: Think I don't know a due bill when I see one?

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When Joan Crawford was in Baton Rouge and she came to film Miriam's arrival, there was no dialogue involved. Joan was to arrive at the mansion in a cab, exit, carrying a small case, pay the driver, and lowering her sunglasses, look up at the balcony of the house where Bette, in pigtails and a nightgown, was standing in the shadows, holding a shot gun. The scene was designed to be photographed in a wide continuous shot, and, thanks to Crawford's proficient technical skill, it was completed in one take. Later that evening, when publicist Harry Mines called on Bette in her motel bungalow, he found her standing in the middle of the room practicing Joan's scene. "My God!" said Bette. "I've been here all evening long with a pair of dark glasses and some luggage and I'm imagining getting out of a cab and trying to do that whole business in one gesture. How did she do it?"
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.
Until his death in 1959, Joan Crawford had been married to Alfred Steele, the president of Pepsi-Cola. In an effort to spite her co-star, Bette Davis had a Coca-Cola vending machine installed on the set and gleefully posed for publicity photographs enjoying the beverage.
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