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27 March 1974 (USA)
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Tagline:
She'll coax the blues right out of your heart!
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The musical revolves around the antics of Mame Dennis, a fun-loving, wealthy eccentric with a flare for life and a razor sharp wit...
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
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(27 articles)
Jerry's Girls Plays The Ivoryton Playhouse 10/28-11/14
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 14 November 2009, 2:00 AM, PST)
Bea Arthur leaves $300,000 to Lgbt youths
(From AfterEllen.com. 28 October 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 14 November 2009, 2:00 AM, PST)
Bea Arthur leaves $300,000 to Lgbt youths
(From AfterEllen.com. 28 October 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)
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A wonderful movie -- still shining after all these years.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Lucille Ball | ... | Mame Dennis |
 | Bea Arthur | ... | Vera Charles |
 | Robert Preston | ... | Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside |
 | Bruce Davison | ... | The Older Patrick |
| Kirby Furlong | ... | Young Patrick |
| Jane Connell | ... | Agnes Gooch |
| Joyce Van Patten | ... | Sally Cato |
| Doria Cook-Nelson | ... | Gloria Upson (as Doria Cook) |
| Don Porter | ... | Mr. Upson |
| Audrey Christie | ... | Mrs. Upson |
| John McGiver | ... | Mr. Babcock |
| Bobbie Jordan | ... | Pegeen (as Bobbi Jordan) |
 | Patrick Labyorteaux | ... | Peter |
| Lucille Benson | ... | Mother Burnside |
| Ruth McDevitt | ... | Cousin Fan |
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132 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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The name of Robert Preston's character, Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, is taken from four Civil War Generals, three Confederate - Pierre Goustave Toutant Beauregard, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, and George Pickett - and one Union, Ambrose Burnside.
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Continuity: When Mame and Beauregard do their elegant soft-shoe routine in the middle of the title number, she holds her riding crop in her left hand. When the other dancers join in, the angle changes and goes to a close-up, and as it pulls back, the riding crop is now in her right hand, though her arms were linked by the dancers from one shot to the next, and she never realistically had a chance to move it.
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Vera Charles:
However, in 'Fallen Angel' all of my clothes were done by Chanel! She said to me, 'Cheri' - she always called me Cheri - 'Cheri' she said, clothes not only make the woman, clothes make the world!' Oh she's brilliant! Sell her own mother, but brilliant. The costumes for my new show are so dazzling, that we expect complaints from the orchestra.
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Referenced in "Biography: Angela Lansbury: A Balancing Act" (1998)
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I love this movie from start to finish, always have. I think those who have heavily criticized this film are either anti Lucille Ball (oh my) or have first impressions of the Auntie Mame character by Rosalind Russell and Angela Lansbury. When I watch a movie, I want to be entertained. The first time I saw "Mame" back in the Seventies I just loved it. It's a great story, the songs are memorable, and Beatrice Arthur almost steals the show as Vera (she should have received an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress). I am not looking for perfection as so many of the reviewers here seem to. Lucy does a fine job as far as I'm concerned. She has me totally enthralled for three hours and I am sure that's exactly what Miss Ball set out to do. Way to go, Lucy!