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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.
Rosalind Russell - Mame Dennis
Forrest Tucker - Beauregard Burnside
Coral Browne - Vera Charles
Fred Clark - Mr. Babcock
Roger Smith - Patrick Dennis
Joanna Barnes - Gloria Upson
Patric Knowles - Lindsay Woolsey
Peggy Cass - Agnes Gooch
Jan Handzlik - Patrick Dennis as a child
Pippa Scott - Pegeen Ryan
Lee Patrick - Mrs. Doris Upson
Willard Waterman - Mr. Claude Upson
Robin Hughes - Brian O’Bannion
Connie Gilchrist - Norah Muldoon
Yuki Shimoda - Ito
Carol Veazie - Mrs. Burnside
Henry Brandon - Acacius Page
Olive Blakeney - Dowager
Booth Colman - Perry
Morton Da Costa - Edwin Dennis
Paul Davis - Stage Manager
Margaret Dumont - Noblewoman
Gregory Gaye - Vladimir Klinkoff
Rand Harper - Pianist
Charles Heard - Dr. Feuchtwanger
Terry Kelman - Michael Dennis
Owen McGiveney - Man wearing Monocle
Doye O’Dell - Cousin Jeff
Barbara Pepper - Mrs. Krantz
Richard Reeves - Mr. Krantz
Dub Taylor - Veterinarian
Ruth Warren - Mrs. Jennings
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“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death”Thanks, wanted to see this quote.
I love her voice!
marvelous! Thanks so much for posting.
marvelous! Thanks so much for posting.
fabulous… i want to throw a grand party with an Auntie Mame theme. Evening gowns cigarette filters and all.
fabulous… i want to throw a grand party with an Auntie Mame theme. Evening gowns cigarette filters and all.
god I love this movie <3
god I love this movie <3
coral browne was the wife of vincent price
coral browne was the wife of vincent price
im having a musical themed 18th and im going as mame!!!
im having a musical themed 18th and im going as mame!!!
gooch running up the stairs screaming LIVE LIVE just made my day.
gooch running up the stairs screaming LIVE LIVE just made my day.
i love this movie so much, one of the best of all time!
i love this movie so much, one of the best of all time!
RIP Bea
y do that kid keep pouting his lips and blinking his eyes
y do that kid keep pouting his lips and blinking his eyes
Never let a young boy watch this film. It increases his chance of growing up gay.
Never let a young boy watch this film. It increases his chance of growing up gay.
I know, I thought he was so creepy.
When she shakes the monkey’s paw without looking I almost died laughing. Can someone please post the whole movie?
I am crazy about this movie!!!!!!!
my favorite movie
I don’t think the term had been coined yet, but this IS the quintessential ‘feel-good’ movie that set a standard very few have equaled since. It is impossible to sit through this classic and stay in any bad or sad mood. To take nothing away from Susan Hayward, this was definitely another occasion when the Oscars should have tied again, and Russell awarded too. Today we’re lucky if Hollywood entertains us this thoroughly even once ever five years.
shaking the monkey’s hand without looking was funny crabbed me up hahaha funny. lol
Will it mix with Dr. Pepper? He’ll love it !!!!!!
You’re everything I ever expected…. and quite a bit more.
I have lived my whole life by that famous phrase. “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death. You got to live, live, live!”
auntie mame clasic among clasics
i love this movie!!
My all time fave! I have it memorized!
Roz is amazing
A great and memorable movie line. But take into consideration Auntie Mame was born rich and at the end of the movie was rich. She was poor- when the stock market crashed- for a few weeks, then married Beauregard, a millionaire, then was widowed a millionairess. Aside from working briefly as a switchboard operator and a few days at Macy’s, she was never employed. I hate seeming so practical, but this banquet business is not exactly available to everyone.
thank you
Live Live Live!!! I watch it with my niece. She loves it.
it’s too bad joanna barnes uses her real voice at the very end of the trailer. it would’ve been a hoot if she had used that boston brahmin accent
You are missing the point of the movie. It is not about money. Look at that kooky family Patrick almost married into. They were rich but small-minded and cheap in their lives. The movie is about liberal vs. conservative, about being generous and kind vs. being mean and petty. That’s why the film is such a joy. “Auntie Mame” is about living a life full of richness of spirit.
Yes, and Vincent and Coral were an extremely happy couple. They met on the set of “Theater of Blood” in 1973.
You’re preaching to the choir, Moor. Of course it’s a joy. I keep playing it over and over, especially as Christmas nears. All I am saying is that it is easier to live, live, live when you have the material resources. Of course, a lot of rich people are poverty-stricken inside and don’t know of such things. The Bushes, for example, could well be the prototype of the Upsons.
Conservatives are poverty striken whether rich or not. They don’t know how to live, live, live because they are too busy bullying other people. I’ve tolerated too many people in my life (family and friends) who were Republicans and I no longer bother with them. People like The Upsons and The Bushes are the biggest phonies on earth, although even they are too stupid to realize it.
Yes, it’s the perfect movie to see around Christmastime. It’s showing here in Hollywood on Wednesday. I’ll be there.
I’m wondering who Patrick Dennis had as the inspiration for the character Auntie Mame. He did have an aunt who was a bit of a character but nowhere near to Mame. I’m wondering maybe he had Libby Holman in mind when he wrote this wonderful story. Gay men adored Libby.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE — such a classic
Perhaps my favorite film of all time…