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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
Awards:
Nominated for 6 Oscars.
Another 6 wins
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3 nominations
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(13 articles)
Jerry's Girls Plays The Ivoryton Playhouse 10/28-11/14
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AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
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(From BroadwayWorld.com. 14 November 2009, 2:00 AM, PST)
AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
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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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Mame's line in French at Macy's is "Après moi, le déluge" ("After me, the flood"). This quote is attributed to King Louis XV of France and represents a philosophy of living for now when disaster looms in the future. In the movie, it relates to purchasing Christmas gifts on credit so that one doesn't have to worry about paying for them right away, something that a rich socialite would be very comfortable with.
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Continuity: When Mame is sitting on the bar stool having a cocktail at the Upson's house, the napkin in her right hand disappears and then reappears.
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Gloria Upson:
Bunny Bixler and I were in the semi-finals - the very semi-finals, mind you - of the ping-pong tournament at the club and this ghastly thing happened. We were both playing way over our heads and the score was 29-28. And we had this really terrific volley and I stepped back to get this really terrific shot...
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Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000) (TV)
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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!