What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969) on Netflix
M/PG19691h 41mCrimeDramaMystery
The aging widow Claire Marrable finds her husband's estate stripped of its assets, leaving her in debt and without a home. She moves to Tucson and hires Alice Dimmock as her housekeeper.
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Plot summary
After the death of her husband, a prominent businessman, Claire Marrable finds that his estate has been stripped of its assets, and she is left with medical debt and no house of her own. What remains of his belongings amounts to a stamp collection, a butterfly collection, a briefcase, and two antique daggers. She relocates to Tucson, Arizona, to live near her nephew George and Julia, his wife, and takes on a live-in housekeeper. Harriet Vaughn, a young widow who comes from New England, rents a cottage from George with her nephew Jim, next door to Claire's property. Claire later engages Alice Dimmock, a retired nurse, as her housekeeper.
Cast
- Michael Barberaas Jim Vaughn
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
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- The original director, Bernard Girard, was fired from the film after completing approximately half of it; Katzin was hired as his replacement and received sole directorial credit.
- Geraldine Page was only 43 or 44 when she played Claire Marrable as an aging woman; she told a journalist that she enjoyed playing 'a villainess' but worried about typecasting.
- What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? was the first and only motion picture to be produced by Aldrich but not directed by him.
- Producer Aldrich at one point offered actress Helen Hayes a part in the film; by August 1968, Geraldine Page and Ruth Gordon had signed to play the leads.
- Some interiors of the film were shot in a Los Angeles home that had also appeared in the 1915 silent film Ghosts; other portions were shot at the historic White Stallion Ranch near Tucson.
- Gerald Fried's score for the film was at one point intended to include several French-language songs sung by Lilyan Chauvin, and it features organ with discordant cello and violin.
