The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

The line is a barbed joke that trades on the well-publicized rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford and the film’s famously vicious on-screen relationship. By claiming her “best time” with Crawford occurred while performing a violent stunt, Davis turns a moment of staged cruelty into a comic emblem of off-screen animosity. The humor depends on the audience’s awareness that Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) was marketed—and later mythologized—as a clash of two aging stars competing for attention, sympathy, and control. The quip also reflects Davis’s persona in interviews: blunt, unsentimental, and willing to puncture Hollywood politeness with a memorable one-liner.