When I was 10 my mother brought home a video cassette of Auntie Mame from the New York Public Library. I didn’t know why she ...

Based on the novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis Based on the play Auntie Mame by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee “Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!” So says the ...

Patrick Dennis, as a young man Broadway Auntie Mame 1956 ...

Mame is an unconventional individualist socialite from the roaring 20's. When her brother dies, she is forced to raise her nephew Patrick. However, Patrick's father has designated an executor to ...

Debbie VanNoy told me the story of their origin. Wright’s Aunt Mame, a cook at the restaurant, used to make pickled beets and give them out to diners. After learning that pickled beets are an ...

But she was still a side dish to Auntie Mame, a pistol of a character. A 1920s flapper and socialite, Mame is forced to raise her nephew after her brother's death. In the play, she challenges ...

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman ... Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

After the stock market crash of 1929, Auntie Mame tries to hurry up the Christmas preparations, even though it’s still November and the snow hasn’t yet started to fall, hoping it will help ...