Wikipedia: The Miracle Worker (1962 film) — production history, Arthur Penn direction, budget, Patty Duke’s record as youngest competitive Oscar winner.
Wikipedia: Feud: Bette and Joan — FX series, dramatization framing, Emmy recognition.
Far Out Magazine: retrospective on the Crawford-Davis rivalry — timeline of incidents, source assessments for specific anecdotes, attribution of the “I have never forgiven her” quote to Davis’s 1987 interview.
The Concluding Chapter of Crawford advocacy site (debunking_1963academyawards) — arguments against the campaign allegation, two-hundred-dollar reward reference, documentation of absent corroboration. Assessed as advocacy source; used for its argument, not as neutral scholarship.
Key books not directly reviewed but referenced in secondary literature: Shaun Considine, *Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud* (1989) — primary secondary source for the campaign allegation; Davis’s accounts filtered through Considine are cited as Davis’s allegations, not established facts.
Attribution note: All claims about the alleged campaign against Davis are presented as Davis’s allegation, clearly attributed and not asserted as established fact. All on-set incident claims from the *Baby Jane* production are presented with attribution (primarily Davis’s retrospective accounts) and documentation status.
No fabricated dialogue, invented meetings, invented thoughts or emotions, or unattributed assertions of private motive appear in this article. Where an event is documented only in one source and that source has a stake in the narrative, this limitation is noted in the text.