Maybe someone can add their thoughts to this but for some reason I've found the interiors of the home of Bette and Joan as shown here to be calming places even though both women lived with different styles. The interiors I like best are those for Bette Davis with the rooms with dark, varnished woodwork and the style of the wallpaper. I'm not sure why. Maybe because I'm reminded a little of places I was in when I was very young. For me, you might say, some of the interiors are characters in the story.
I am a bit prejudiced in my belief that the British film producers truly know their history and attention to detail ! Nobody can do it like the British. Rarely is there a false note when it comes to recreating the early and mid-20th century. The Brits fill every frame of the mise-en-scene with accurate detail and ambience. But Hollywood has trouble recreating past Era for some reason. Even the 60s looks a bit stilted and podge-podge. A good thing for the customer and set designers that they had thousands of candid media images that they could reference in creating new costumes.
This is a long shot, but would anyone know how to get a copy of that fabulous framed baby jane hudson poster from her vaudeville act?? I can't find a print of it anywhere online and I just love it so much! Maybe I'm not using the right search terms, but all I can ever find is the movie poster (which is amazing too!)
Joan's house looked absolutely nothing like it is portrayed here. Here home was magnificently done by William Haines several times and each time was more stunning. Also a majority of the set props and furniture is not of the period.
