What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? is a 1969 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Lee H. Katzin with Bernard Girard (uncredited), and starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller and Mildred Dunnock. The screenplay by Theodore Apstein, based on the novel The Forbidden Garden by Ursula Curtiss, focuses on an aging Arizona widow who hires elderly female housekeepers and cons them out of their money before murdering them.
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| Directed by | Lee H. Katzin Bernard Girard (uncredited) |
| Screenplay by | Theodore Apstein |
| Based on | The Forbidden Garden by Ursula Curtiss |
| Produced by | Robert Aldrich |
| Starring | Geraldine Page Ruth Gordon Rosemary Forsyth Robert Fuller Mildred Dunnock |
| Cinematography | Joseph Biroc |
| Edited by | Frank J. Urioste |
| Music by | Gerald Fried |
Production companies | Palomar Pictures Corporation The Associates & Aldrich Company |
| Distributed by | Cinerama Releasing Corporation |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.7 million |
| Box office | $3.2 million |
The film's title is a reference to the 1962 horror film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which was also produced by Robert Aldrich. Both films are considered part of the psycho-biddy subgenre, in which a formerly glamorous and now older woman has become psychotic.
The music score was by Gerald Fried and the cinematography by Joseph F. Biroc. The film was funded by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Palomar Pictures Corporation, and The Associates & Aldrich Company, and distributed by Cinerama Releasing Corporation.