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Auntie Mame (1958) [Re-UP]

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Date: 27 Sep 2015 15:12:00
Auntie Mame (1958) [Re-UP]

Auntie Mame (1958)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + DVD Scan | 02:23:23 | 6,61 Gb
Audio: #1 English, #2 French - AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps (each) | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Morton DaCosta
Stars: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
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 his will to protect the boy from absorbing too much of Mame's rather unconventional perspective. Patrick and Mame become devoted to each other in spite of this restriction, and together journey through Patrick's childhood and the great depression, amidst some rather zaney adventures.

IMDB - Nominated for 6 Oscars | Wikipedia | Rotten Tomatoes | TCM

Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the legendary musical-comedy writing team, departed from form to deal in straight comedy in Warner Bros.' Auntie Mame (1958), adapting a stage hit from another great writing team - Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The Broadway play had, in turn, been adapted from the Patrick Dennis novel and would later be a musical on both stage and screen, with Angela Lansbury and Lucille Ball among the many actresses who would follow Rosalind Russell in the role of Mame Dennis. The madcap aunt of an orphaned boy, Mame enlists her gang of eccentric friends to help teach the youngster to "live, live, live!" Russell, who originated the role with smashing success on Broadway and in the movie, was nominated for both a Tony and an Oscar. The film of Auntie Mame was nominated for five other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Auntie Mame (1958) [Re-UP]

Comden was born in Brooklyn in 1917, Green in the Bronx in 1915. The pair began their lifelong collaboration by performing together in nightclubs in 1944. They wrote the book and lyrics for many successful Broadway musicals including the Tony-winning Wonderful Town, a 1953 musical version of My Sister Eileen starring their good friend Russell, with music by Leonard Bernstein. Among the many MGM film hits on which Comden and Green collaborated are Good News (1947), On the Town (1950), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953) and Bells Are Ringing (1960).

Auntie Mame (1958) [Re-UP]

In addition to their writing accomplishments, Comden and Green have distinguished themselves as performers in concerts of their own work, TV specials and movies. Comden acted in Slaves of New York (1989) and Garbo Talks (1984) playing Greta Garbo! Greens film-acting credits include Simon (1980) and My Favorite Year (1982). A common misconception about the pair is that they are husband and wife; each has enjoyed happy marriages with others. Their mutual admiration has been well documented. In her 1995 autobiography Off Stage, Comden wrote, "The mythic character in my life, my partner Adolph Green, it seems to me must have sprung full-blown from his own head. There is no other head quite capable of having done the job. Only his head has the antic, manic imagination and offbeat creative erudite-plus childlike originality to conceive of such a person."
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Auntie Mame (1958) [Re-UP]

'Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death'. Certainly that is one of the most famous lines in movie history as well as one of the most descriptive of a title character. The movie and character being of course 'Auntie Mame', exuberantly played by the late, great Rosalind Russell. In her capable hands the role she originated on Broadway has yet to be surpassed. She is at times madcap, sexy, girlish, ditzy, regal, tragic, smart and ultimately brilliant.

Auntie Mame (1958) [Re-UP]

The story of young Patrick Dennis; orphaned by the untimely death of his father he is sent to live with his only living relative in a posh Manhattan apartment. The scene where he first arrives there amidst one of Mame's 'affairs' is splendidly conceived and executed. Mame introduces her nephew to a dizzying array of friends and other guests in rapid succession all the while making witty repartee. The scene is done in one long take that would rarely, if ever, be filmed today. At one point she hands him a pencil and paper and instructs him to jot down every word he hears but does not understand. These include libido, id, free love, Marxism and heterosexual.

Auntie Mame (1958) [Re-UP]

Released in 1958 this movie is filled with memorable characters and intelligent and very funny dialogue. The focus rarely shifts from the beloved Mame but why should it. She is the reason for watching. Rosalind Russell is one of the screens greatest comediennes; she can deliver tongue-twisting lines with amazing speed and is just as comfortable doing a pratfall. The scene at Peckerwood, the southern plantation owned by her fiancé (Forrest Tucker as Beauregard Picket Burnside) where she rides a crazed horse in a fox hunt is a good example of the latter.

Auntie Mame (1958) [Re-UP]

The supporting cast is wonderful and the direction is first rate as is the wonderful screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

I get chills every time I watch the final scene as Mame ascends her famous stairway leading the now grown-up Patrick's son all the while telling him about her friend the monk in India where, from his bell tower you can see the Taj Mahal…
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Auntie Mame (1958) [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Music Only Audio Track Highlighting Bronislaw Kaper's Lush Score
- Theatrical Trailers of this and its musical remake Mame
- Interactive Menus
- Cast/Director Film Highlights

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