A crippled Anthony complains that he is like Jane in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" (1962), but the character Blanche is crippled in the movie, not Jane.
MaryJo said how Edith Head was Belva's mother's friend from college. Belva looks to be in her mid-thirties in 1989. Edith Head completed her college education in 1920. Belva's mother wouldn't even have been born by 1920, much less attended college with Edith Head.