Mame Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gene Saks
Genres: Comedy, Musical
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Lucille_Ball stars in this film version of the hit Jerry_Herman Broadway musical, which featured an electrifying performance by Angela_Lansbury. As Patrick_Dennis' plucky and resilient Auntie Mame, Ball's low-pitched, growling moan of a voice (a spine-chilling reminder of the sound of Linda_Blair's demon-possession in The_Exorcist) and her gaudy and lumbering fashion-horse gait turns Mame into an elderly cross-dresser. In this guise, Mame rehashes the plot from Dennis's novel and the previous non-musical Rosalind_Russell film. During the Depression era 1930s, she enrolls her nephew into a liberal private school, tries a turn in show business (with the help of her friend Vera [Beatrice_Arthur]), and marries a well-to-do Southern planter (Robert_Preston). After her husband's death, Mame concerns herself with her now grown-up nephew, his girlfriend, and the girlfriend's intolerant parents. Paul Brenner, Rovi
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