# What movie is this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/673611 "2013-11-11T00:59:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/673611/1 "2013-11-11T00:59:37Z")
I thought it was **Come Back Little Sheba** but I watched that last night, and it’s not. 50’s era, and all I remember is the ending. A middle-aged husband took off with a sweet young thing, and they were almost immediately killed in a car crash. ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/673611/2 "2013-11-11T01:55:36Z")
Maybe Queen Bee? It’s from the right decade (1955) but the couple aren’t running off together. John Ireland realizes Joan Crawford manipulated his fiancee into committing suicide, and that Crawford’s husband is planning to kill her and himself. While the husband is distracted, Ireland announces he’s supposed to drive Crawford to a party they’re all attending and deliberately wrecks on the way, killing the two of them. Crawford’s husband _is_ growing attracted to her younger, nicer cousin but they don’t try running off and both survive to the credits. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/673611/3 "2013-11-11T02:52:09Z")
**Tess** , could be. I avoid Joan Crawford movies like the plague though. I’ve seen Mildred Pierce, Woman on the Beach, and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. But that could be it. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/673611/4 "2013-11-11T03:59:25Z")
Well, there was Elizabeth Taylor’s fatal car crash at the end of [BUtterfield 8](http://youtu.be/2UFzy-kW4Ew) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/673611/5 "2013-11-11T18:13:31Z")
I asked at IMDB and apparently the movie is Hot Spell. Anthony Quinn and Shirley Booth. I had the right wife and the wrong husband. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/673611/6 "2013-11-11T18:48:34Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **Tess** , could be. I avoid Joan Crawford movies like the plague though. I’ve seen Mildred Pierce, Woman on the Beach, and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. Me, too. Joan Crawford reminds me of a cobra in human form, and I dislike her. As regards dramatic actresses of that era, I’m more of a Bette Davis fan. Isn’t it _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?_ you’re thinking of? _Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte_ starred Olivia Dehavilland opposite Bette Davis. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/673611/7 "2013-11-11T19:02:46Z")
Yeah, I always get Charlotte and Baby Jane mixed up. “But ya are, Blanche, ya are!” 😃