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Auntie Mame is a american film of genre Drama directed by Don Alvarado released in USA on 27 december 1958 with Rosalind Russell
Auntie Mame (1958)
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Add to a movie listAuntie Mame is a 1958 Technicolor comedy film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Patrick Dennis and its theatrical adaptation by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This film version stars Rosalind Russell and was directed by Morton DaCosta. Mame, a musical version of the story, appeared on Broadway in 1966 and was later made into a 1974 film Mame starring Lucille Ball as the title character.
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Patrick Dennis (Jan Handzlik), orphaned in 1928 when his father unexpectedly dies, is placed in the care of Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell), his father's sister in Manhattan. Mame is a flamboyant, exuberant woman, who hosts frequent parties with eclectic, bohemian guests. Patrick is quickly introduced to his aunt's free-spirited and eccentric lifestyle, including Vera Charles (Coral Browne), a Broadway actress, who spends many of her nights passed out drunk in Mame's guest room. Mame's frequently repeated motto is "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"Actors
Rosalind Russell
(Mame Dennis)
Forrest Tucker
(Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside)
Coral Browne
(Vera Charles)
Roger Smith
(Patrick Dennis - Older)
Peggy Cass
(Agnes Gooch)
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