Whatever Happened to Baby Jessica
Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 11:52PM 
I'm gagging at this photo. Bette Davis and Jessica Lange at an AFI event in June 1983. (Thanks to Dan Callahan for sharing it.) Which means this photo was taken just two months after Lange won her first Oscar (Tootsie... she'd eventually be a two-time winner like Bette) and shortly before Davis suffered from multiple strokes...
Jessica's career had just exploded and Bette's was remarkably still going at 75. Ever the workaholic, she kept on working after those strokes. She still had two TV episodes, two TV films and two headlining roles in feature films left in her (The Whales of August, and Wicked Stepmother) before her death six years later in October of 1989.
Do you think Jessica will recall this meeting while filming the upcoming Feud with Sarandon playing Bette Davis?
Another photo from the same event with James Caan
Reader Comments (8)
I always thought Marion Cotillard had 'Bette Davis Eyes'...but Susan Sarandon should bag her 2nd Oscar if it all works out right.
But will Jessica Lange be on hand to accept the Oscar if any of the other 4 nominees win?
This is a freaky picture. Bette is linked to Jess who is forever linked to Susan Sarandon, etc. but FX is for ladies who do commercials so I get the last laugh. That Meryl girl is wonderful for movies.
Coked out? What is Jess doing with James Caan?
Bette Streep - this is been made for TV, not movies... so if anything Sarandon could get an Emmy.
Unrelated, James Caan was a fox.
Troy - yes.
Joan - yes.
I meant to comment when the news of Murphy's series was posted here, but, perhaps I'm one of few. The premise of that show feels icky to me. Though I love back-stories of old Hollywood, this project has a ring of sensationalism, voyeurism, and a TMZ/Daily-Mirror "celeb catfight" quality. And quite frankly, portraying Joan Crawford never did anything good for Faye Dunaway's career, so hoping Lange thought long and hard about that.
I don't think any actor ever capitalized on commercial success with such relentless purpose as Caan. After The Godfather, he did eight films in three years, all hits, and didn't have a flop until Harry and Walter Go to New York. Such a fine, underrated actor.