- With production on Baby Jane underway, Bette and Joan form an alliance, but outside forces conspire against them.
- In 1970s interviews, Joan (Blondell) and Olivia continue to provide context into Joan (Crawford) and Bette's relationship, including that Jack put Joan under contract at Warner's (at a pittance) in the early 1940s solely to irk Bette, with the dynamic between the two and within Hollywood changing with Joan's success in Mildred Pierce (1945), after which it was Joan who got the plum roles and Bette largely the ones as housewives and slatterns. Back in 1962, filming on "Baby Jane" is well under way, and Joan and Bette are largely getting along as well as can be expected in their joint goal of making the movie a success and showing their joint dominance on the set. The latter issue does not sit well with Bob, as although he realizes he is considered a B-list director, he is still the director who should command the respect of his cast and crew. Both Jack and Hedda are miffed by the seeming cordiality between the two stars, Jack specifically who orders Bob to create emotional fireworks between them if only to translate those fireworks into the relationship shown on screen for the movie. Bob has to decide how to proceed under this directive, and how far he will go in his personal relationships with the two women, as his marriage, which he wants to save, is already on the rocks. Beyond Bob's actions, what happens on the set is affected by the two stars' personal lives, including Joan's tenuous relationship with Peter and her financial problems, and Bette's relationship with daughter B.D., that later relationship which is placed into further clarity when Bette meets co-star, Victor Buono.—Huggo
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