Auntie Mame [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green ; directed by Morton DaCosta.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 11152 | Warner Home Video3000033414 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2010.Description: 1 videodisc (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 078066387X
- 9780780663879
- Director of photography, Harry Stradling ; editor, William Ziegler ; music composed by Bronislau Kaper.
- Golden Globe awards for Best motion picture, comedy and Best motion picture actress, comedy Rosalind Russell in 1959.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Auntie Mame began as a novel by Patrick Dennis (aka Ed Fitzgerald), then was adapted into a long-running Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. This 1958 film version permits Rosalind Russell to recreate her stage role as Mame Dennis, the flamboyant, devil-may-care aunt of young, impressionable Patrick Dennis. Left in Mame's care when his millionaire father drops dead, young Patrick (Jan Handzlik) is quickly indoctrinated into his aunt's philosophy that "Life is a banquet--and some poor suckers are starving to death." Social-climbing executor Dwight Babcock (Fred Clark) does his best to raise Patrick as a stuffy American aristocrat, but Mame battles Babcock to allow the boy to be as free-spirited as she is. In 1974, Auntie Mame was remade as the filmmusical Mame with Lucille Ball. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
From the novel, Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis, as adapted for the stage by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
Special features: cast and crew, music only track, awards, theatrical trailers.
Videodisc release of the 1958 motion picture.
Director of photography, Harry Stradling ; editor, William Ziegler ; music composed by Bronislau Kaper.
Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass.
In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated Auntie Mame--a lady who throws a party for any occasion or nonoccasion that comes to mind. He grows up and brings home his fiancée and her parents, and Mame finds them banal.
Not rated.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.
English and dubbed French soundtracks with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Golden Globe awards for Best motion picture, comedy and Best motion picture actress, comedy Rosalind Russell in 1959.