Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Visiting cousin Miriam (Olivia de Havilland), whose motives are unclear, rescues fragile Bette Davis (title character), who thinks her lover John, whom most people think she butchered and killed, is around the house, with an unexplained twist, in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964.

Bette Davis (title character) realizing her cousin Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) doesn't plan to help save her Louisiana plantation home, reveals the role she played in the murder of her married lover to old family friend Dr. Drew (Joseph Cotten), in Robert Aldrich's Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964.

From director Robert Aldrich’s prologue, in 1927 Louisiana Victor Buono is plantation owner Big Sam, who has instructed philanderer Mayhew (Bruce Dern) to tell his daughter (Bette Davis, playing her much-younger self in wide shots) they won’t be eloping, in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964.

Long-serving maid Velma (Agnes Moorehead) admits sheriff Standish (Wesley Addy) who hopes to convince maybe-demented presumed-murderess Bette Davis (title character) to vacate her Louisiana home, though she hopes for a rescue, in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964.

Heads will roll as Bette Davis fights to keep her family's secrets in Robert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).