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Release Date:
27 December 1958 (USA)
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Plot:
An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 6 Oscars.
Another 6 wins
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3 nominations
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(13 articles)
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One of the greats!!!!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rosalind Russell | ... | Mame Dennis |
 | Forrest Tucker | ... | Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside |
| Coral Browne | ... | Vera Charles |
| Fred Clark | ... | Dwight Babcock |
| Roger Smith | ... | Patrick Dennis -older |
| Patric Knowles | ... | Lindsay Woolsey |
| Peggy Cass | ... | Agnes Gooch |
| Jan Handzlik | ... | Patrick Dennis - younger |
| Joanna Barnes | ... | Gloria Upson |
 | Pippa Scott | ... | Pegeen Ryan |
| Lee Patrick | ... | Doris Upson |
| Willard Waterman | ... | Claude Upson |
| Robin Hughes | ... | Brian O'Bannion |
| Connie Gilchrist | ... | Norah Muldoon |
| Yuki Shimoda | ... | Ito |
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143 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #19033) |
USA:Unrated (video release) |
USA:TV-MA |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
Australia:G |
Finland:K-12 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:A
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The stage play "Auntie Mame" opened at the Broadhurst Theater in New York on October 31, 1956 and ran for 639 performances. Rosalind Russell, Yuki Shimoda, Jan Handzlik, and Peggy Cass were in the original cast and reprise their roles in the film.
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Factual errors: Patrick's father dies in September 1928. Patrick then goes to live with Mame starting on October 1. Weeks later (it's clear it was weeks, not a year), he is discovered at Mr. Page's school in the village, the same day as the stock market crash. However, the market crashed in October 1929, not 1928.
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Quotes:
Auntie Mame:
Oh, Agnes! Here you've been taking my dictations for weeks and you haven't gotten the message of my book: live!
Agnes Gooch: Live?
Auntie Mame: Yes! Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!
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Agnes Gooch: Live?
Auntie Mame: Yes! Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!
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Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: (#7.19)" (2008)
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Auntie Mame is a long movie, but it goes by as fast as a giggle!! There are few movies that I care to watch over and over again. I never tire of Auntie Mame because the screenplay is simply a brilliant piece of work. Comden and Greene are from the laudable days where one was expected to engage the brain when writing comedy! Practically every line is a quotable classic. Warner Brothers did us all a service by hiring theater director Morton da Costa to recreate the Broadway stage play. The movie is classy, sumptuously designed and brilliantly staged with those exquisite blackouts after each scene. Rosalind Russell should have won an Academy Award for this role (she refused to campaign for it) because no one will ever come close to getting that perfect timing that she displays in every scene. You love her from the moment she shakes the monkey's hand in the second scene. The supporting cast is perfection, especially Coral Browne, an undeservedly little known actress who makes a meal of Vera Charles. Peggy Cass is hilarious as Agnes Gooch; Forrest Tucker a charmer as Burnside. Everything about this picture makes it a true classic of the American cinema; one of those rare movies that makes you laugh, but even more important, makes you feel good!!! They don't get any better than this!