Auntie Mame Summary
Director: Morton Da Costa
Genres: 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, Rovi
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