Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Miriam: What is it that you don't believe Drew? That I'm here, or that I look the way I do?

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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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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.
When Miriam Deering (Olivia de Havilland) is preparing to close up the house in anticipation of moving out, she is packing a box which is stenciled "Sam Strangis Storage & Transfer, Baton Rouge, LA.". Sam Strangis was the assistant director on this picture.
Life magazine was interested in the re-teaming of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, so Robert Aldrich thought it would be a great idea to have the women pose for photographs sitting on tombstones. Davis was all for it while Crawford was a little reluctant, but because it was for Life magazine she went along with it. Aldrich had a fake cemetery built a short distance away from the house and the photos were done in three to four sessions. The sessions were done during filming, and lasted for hours. Joan would be ready when Bette would be called away. Then when Bette returned, Joan would be gone, back in her trailer, with her clothes off, resting. She would take a long time getting ready. For the last session, Bette came back and Joan was missing, so Davis went to the back of the house to Crawford's dressing room, rapped on the door, stood outside and yelled, "Joan Crawford. Get your clothes on and come do these photographs, right away." Joan came hurtling out the door and the photographs were finished.
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