August 20 1969 

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AUNT ALICE opens. Adapted for the screen by Theodore Apstein, from Ursula Curtiss' 1962 novel, The Forbidden Garden, and directed by journeyman Lee H. Katzin (stepping in after original director Bernard Girard walks four weeks into the shoot). The estimable Geraldine Page goes full Grand Guignol as a haughty, not-so-grieving widow who, despite being left penniless by her recently deceased husband, gleefully maintains her high-end lifestyle by murderingl her live-in housekeepers for their savings. With Ruth Gordon and Robert Fuller.

 

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