Mame

Directed by Gene Saks. With Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur, Bruce Davison. It's the late 1920s. Upon the death of wealthy Chicagoan Edward Dennis, his nine-year old son Patrick Dennis becomes the ward of their only living relative, Edward's equally wealthy New York residing sister, Mame Dennis. Edward's will states that Patrick is to be raised Protestant in a "traditional" manner and that the trustee, Mr. Babcock with the Knickerbocker Bank, will pay Mame for expenses ...

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The Lucille Ball version, or reincarnation, of Mame, lavishly costumed by Theadora van Runkle, with Jerry Herman's [1966] musical numbers smartly choreographed by Onna White is a fantasy of the good old days of prohibition, the depression and the world travel folders.

The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care.

Overview of Mame, 1974, directed by Gene Saks, with Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur, Robert Preston, at Turner Classic Movies

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Some great characters of literature will not be still. They keep coming back. Dracula is one. Auntie Mame is another. This determinedly eccentric Beekman Place hostess, who was first introduced to us by Patrick Dennis in his 1955 novel, appeared next as a 1956 Broadway comedy, "Auntie Mame," which was adopted into a 1958 film and then as a 1966 Broadway musical called "Mame," which has now reappeared as a 1974 movie musical.

Cast as the title character in this second movie adaptation of a Patrick Dennis book and Jerry Herman musical (the first, Auntie Mame was in 1958), Lucille Ball plays an independently wealthy woman who marries a man (Robert Preston) and has to deal with his family. Bea Arthur, who won a Tony for her role in the stage version, reprises the part.

Mame is a 1974 Technicolor musical film in Panavision based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name (itself based on the 1958 film Auntie Mame) and the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis.