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

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 ...

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 ...

The archetype of the cool aunt is hardly new. In the 1958 comedy "Auntie Mame," for example, Rosalind Russell played a delirious bohemian who assumes the care of her 10-year-old nephew after the ...

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 ...