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Synopsis
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

Cast

Joanna Barnes Gloria Upson
Henry Brandon Acacius Page
Coral Browne Vera Charles
Peggy Cass Agnes Gooch
Fred Clark Mr. Babcock
Connie Gilchrist Norah Muldoon
Jan Handzlik Patrick Dennis as a child
Robin Hughes Brian O'Bannion
Patric Knowles Lindsay Woolsey
Lee Patrick Mrs. Doris Upson
Rosalind Russell Mame Dennis
Pippa Scott Pegeen Ryan
Yuki Shimoda Ito
Forrest Tucker Beauregard Burnside
Carol Veazie Mrs. Burnside
Willard Waterman Mr. Claude Upson
Roger Smith Patrick Dennis

Production Crew

Malcolm C. Bert Art Director
Patrick Dennis Book Author
Harry Stradling Cinematographer
Bronislau Kaper Composer (Music Score)
Orry-Kelly Costume Designer
Morton Da Costa Director
William H. Ziegler Editor
Ray Heindorf Musical Direction/Supervision
Jerome Lawrence Play Author
Robert E. Lee Play Author
Morton Da Costa Producer
Adolph Green Screenwriter
Betty Comden Screenwriter
Patrick Dennis Screenwriter
Robert E. Lee Screenwriter
George James Hopkins Set Designer
Year: 1958
Runtime: 161
Country: USA
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature

Genre
Comedy

Produced by
Warner Brothers

Release
by Warner Brothers

Awards
1958 - Best Picture - Academy
1958 - Best Picture - Comedy - Golden Globe
1958 - Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
1958 - Best Picture - Comedy - Hollywood Foreign Press Association