Crawford’s participation in *Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte* ended during production. She withdrew, or was withdrawn, depending on which account you favor, after a period during which she was reportedly hospitalized and then unable or unwilling to return to the set. Her departure was attributed by Crawford to a campaign of harassment by Davis on location, a claim that the Wikipedia production notes characterize as unverified.
Olivia de Havilland replaced her. The film was made without her. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won none.
Davis publicly expressed satisfaction that the film had been completed. She did not publicly mourn Crawford’s absence, or at least not in the accounts that have been preserved.
The two women did not work together again after *Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte*. They did not, by any documented account, reconcile. They existed in parallel, in the same industry, for the remaining years of Crawford’s life, without anything that could be fairly described as rapprochement.
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THE CAREERS THAT FOLLOWED
Crawford’s post-*Baby Jane* career was marked by activity rather than elevation. She starred in *Strait-Jacket* (1964), a William Castle horror film in which she played a woman released from an institution after committing an axe murder. The film was commercially successful within its genre. She made *I Saw What You Did* (1965), *Berserk!* (1967), and *Trog* (1970), the last of these being a science-fiction B-picture that has achieved a certain cult status in part because it was so clearly beneath the talents of the woman performing in it.