On July 29th, 1964, Joan filmed several scenes for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte. This was to be the last day Joan worked on the Hush set. After having filmed several scenes, Joan informed Aldrich that she had over exerted herself and requested to leave the set early. Among the scenes Joan filmed this day was the staircase murder scene with Agnes Moorehead. When de Havilland accepted the role, she requested that many of Miriams scenes be re-written...which they were. However, the murder of Velma was one of the only scenes involving Miriam that remained from the original shooting script prior to de Havilland replacing Joan. (Pictured: A still of Joan as Miriam (possibly during Velmas murder scene), and two pages from the original May 1964 shooting script of Hush depicting Velmas murder on the staircase)
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:19:06 +0000