Auntie Mame (film)

Auntie Mame is a 1958 Technicolor comedy film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Patrick Dennis and its theatrical adaptation by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This film version stars Rosalind Russell and was directed by Morton DaCosta. Mame, a musical version of the story, appeared on Broadway in 1966 and was later made into a 1974 film Mame starring Lucille Ball as the title character.

Since Patricks father was a wealthy man at the time of his death, Patricks inheritance comes with a trustee, Mr. Dwight Babcock Fred Clark. Mr. Babcock disapproves of Mames lifestyle as did her brother Edwin and wants to interject decorum and discipline in Patricks life. Mame has Patrick enrolled at a progressive school run by a friend of hers, Acacius Page Henry Brandon. Mr. Babcock insists that Patrick be enrolled at Bixbys, a nearby boys prep school. When he finds out that Mame has not enrolled Patrick at Bixbys, he issues an order Patrick is to go to St. Boniface boarding school and Mame will only see him at the holidays and during the summer, which is what his father wanted in the first place.When Mames investments are lost in the stock market crash of 1929, she takes a series of jobsstage acting, telephone operator, sales girl at Macysthat all end disastrously. At her sales job at Macys, she meets a man named Beauregard Burnside Forrest Tucker, a rich oil man from the South. Hes immediately smitten with her and she falls in love with him as well, and he proposes to her on the spot in front of his family at their estate in Georgia. For their honeymoon, Beau and Mame travel around the world. Though Mame is sad about leaving Patrick, they keep in touch through letters and frequent visits during holidays. Through their correspondence, Mame gets a sense that Patrick is growing into a stuffy, conventional man, and she worries for him. When Beau dies while they are climbing the Matterhorn, Mame comes home. Patrick surprises her by installing a dictating machine and a secretary, Agnes Gooch Peggy Cass, for her convenience. He and her friends persuade her to write her autobiography. ........

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