Auntie Mame (1958)
- Starring:
- Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, (more)
- Director(s):
- Morton Da Costa
- Category:
- Comedy
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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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 143 mins
Complete Cast:
- Rosalind Russell - Mame Dennis
- Coral Browne - Vera Charles
- Roger Smith - Patrick Dennis
- Patric Knowles - Lindsay Woolsey
- Jan Handzlik - Patrick Dennis as a child
- Lee Patrick - Mrs. Doris Upson
- Robin Hughes - Brian O'Bannion
- Yuki Shimoda - Ito
- Henry Brandon - Acacius Page
- Dub Taylor - Veterinarian
- Margaret Dumont - Noblewoman
- Olive Blakeney - Dowager
- Richard Reeves - Mr. Krantz
- Morton Da Costa - Edwin Dennis
- Rand Harper - Pianist
- Terry Kelman - Michael Dennis
- Forrest Tucker - Beauregard Burnside
- Fred Clark - Mr. Babcock
- Joanna Barnes - Gloria Upson
- Peggy Cass - Agnes Gooch
- Pippa Scott - Pegeen Ryan
- Willard Waterman - Mr. Claude Upson
- Connie Gilchrist - Norah Muldoon
- Carol Veazie - Mrs. Burnside
- Ruth Warren - Mrs. Jennings
- Gregory Gaye - Vladimir Klinkoff
- Booth Colman - Perry
- Paul Davis - Stage Manager
- Doye O'Dell - Cousin Jeff
- Owen McGiveney - Man wearing Monocle
- Charles Heard - Dr. Feuchtwanger
- Barbara Pepper - Mrs. Krantz
- Director(s):
- Morton Da Costa
- Writer(s):
- Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Patrick Dennis
- Producer(s):
- Morton Da Costa
- Categories:
- Comedy
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- 1958 - Auntie Mame - Golden Globe - Best Picture - Comedy
- 1958 - Auntie Mame - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Picture - Comedy
- 1958 - Auntie Mame - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
