Movie
Auntie Mame
Family film with a runtime of 143 minutes, released in 1958. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
Young orphan Patrick finds that living with his Auntie Mame is not for the faint-hearted. "Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" She may have an unconventional approach to his upbringing, but he'll turn out all right. Won't he?, Auntie Mame began as a novel by Patrick Dennis (aka Ed Fitzgerald), then was adapted into a long-running Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. This 1958 film version permits Rosalind Russell to recreate her stage role as Mame Dennis, the flamboyant, devil-may-care aunt of young, impressionable Patrick Dennis. Left in Mame's care when his millionaire father drops dead, young Patrick (Jan Handzlik) is quickly indoctrinated into his aunt's philosophy that "Life is a banquet--and some poor suckers are starving to death." Social-climbing executor Dwight Babcock (Fred Clark) does his best to raise Patrick as a stuffy American aristocrat, but Mame battles Babcock to allow the boy to be as free-spirited as she is. In 1974, Auntie Mame was remade as the filmmusical Mame with Lucille Ball.
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Cast
- Rosalind Russell
- Forrest Tucker
- Fred Clark
- Coral Browne
- Patric Knowles
- Peggy Cass
- Roger Smith
- Jan Handzlik
- Pippa Scott
- Joanna Barnes
- Willard Waterman
- Yuki Shimoda
- Connie Gilchrist
- Robin Hughes
- Lee Patrick
- Carol Veazie
- Brook Byron
- Henry Brandon
- Olive Blakeney
- Morton DaCosta
- Paul Davis
- Margaret Dumont
- Gregory Gaye
- Rand Harper
- Charles Heard
- Terry Kelman
- Owen McGiveney
- Doye O'Dell
- Barbara Pepper
- Dub Taylor
- Ruth Warren
- Richard Reeves
- Patrick Dennis
- Ray Heindorf
- Malcolm Bert
- George James Hopkins
- Robert E. Lee
- Adolph Green
- Betty Comden
- Harry Stradling
- Orry-Kelly
- Jerome Lawrence
- William H. Ziegler
- William Ziegler
