Auntie Mame (1958) |
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Auntie Mame Cast |
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Roger Smith
(as Patrick Dennis -older)
with Joanna Barnes
(as Gloria Upson)
Roger Smith
(as Patrick Dennis -older)
with Pippa Scott
(as Pegeen Ryan)
Peggy Cass
(as Agnes Gooch)
with Robin Hughes
Rosalind Russell
(as Mame Dennis)
with Forrest Tucker
(as Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside)
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Other InformationAwardsBest Foreign Actress BAFTA Awards [1960] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Top Female Supporting Performance Laurel Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: 3rd place) Top Cinematography - Color Laurel Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: 3rd place) Top General Entertainment Laurel Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Won) Top Female Comedy Performance Laurel Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Soundtrack Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast Grammy Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Supporting Actress Golden Globes [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture Actress - Comedy/Musical Golden Globes [1959] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Motion Picture - Comedy Golden Globes [1959] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Picture Academy Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Film Editing Academy Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Cinematography, Color Academy Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color Academy Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actress in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryAuntie 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, th... Related MoviesMame [Version of] (Year of movie: 1974) |
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Auntie Mame (1958) was nominated for the following awards:
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Auntie Mame: Widdicome, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bibberman and Black. You want to talk to Mr. Gutterman? One moment, sir. I`ll connect you. Widdicome, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bibberman and Black. Oh, yes Mr. Bibberman. You`d like to talk with Mr. Applewhite? Oh, yes, sir, he`s in. I`ll connect you. Widdicome, Gutterman, Applewhite, Bib-bib-bib-blib-bibman and Black? Oh yes, long distance, how are you? Oh. Mr Widdecome? I have your San Francisco call for you. Yes, Mr. Bibberman? Oh. Did I connect you to Mr. Gutterman instead of Mr. Applewhite? I`m sorry Mr. Bibbicome, Bibbibibbib.
[She pulls the jack out of the plug and shakes it]
Auntie Mame: Oh Mr. Applewhite, what are you doing in that hole with Mr. Gutterman? Yes Mr. Widdicome? Oh, I`m sorry, sir. I`ll try to reconnect you again with San Francisco. Let me see, Mr. Bibibib is in there talking to Mr. Bubbawhite. Where on earth is Mr. Applewhite? Oh, there you are Mr. Applewhite!
[She starts to cross cords and desperately plug jacks into holes]
Auntie Mame: Mr. Widdicome, there`s no such place as San Francisco. Please!
[She lifts up her console and is horrified to see that it`s glowing]
Auntie Mame: Mr. Bibibib? Mr. Widdicome? Dwight Babcock: I dropped by the Bixby School. And what do I find? I find he isn`t even registered there, he never has been. So I`ve been hunting through every low, crockpot school in this town, and I finally found him in the lowest of them all.
Auntie Mame: Mr. Page is a progressive educator...
Dwight Babcock: There they were, a schoolroom full of them: boys, girls, teachers, romping around stark naked, bare as the day they were born.
Auntie Mame: I assure you that the children under Mr. Page`s care were engaged in normal, healthful, broadening procedures.
Dwight Babcock: Broadening? You show them what you were doing when I broke into that place. Go ahead, show them.
Patrick Dennis: We just playing Fish Family.
Dwight Babcock: Fish Family.
Patrick Dennis: It`s a sort of constructive play.
Dwight Babcock: Now, listen to this.
Auntie Mame: Show me now darling, show me.
Patrick Dennis: Well, we do it right after yogurt time. Mrs. Page and all the girls crouch down on the floor under the sun lamps. And they pretend to be lady fishes, depositing their eggs in the sand. Then Mr. Page and all the boys do what gentlemen fish do.
Auntie Mame: [pause] What could be more wholesome or natural? Auntie Mame: What an honor it is to have you in our little home... though I wonder if it does make the best first impression on a sensitive young mind to see you drinking during business hours. Claude Upson: I got this recipe from a bartender I met in Havana. You`ll never guess the secret ingredient. I`ll give you one hint: there`s no sugar in a Claude Upson daiquiri!
Auntie Mame: And yet it`s so... sweet.
[weakly]
Auntie Mame: Whatever do you use?
[brightly]
Auntie Mame: Chocolate ice cream! Sally Cato: [before a fox-hunt] Well? Shall we to the hounds?
Auntie Mame: [muttered] Yeah, I`d love to meet your family. Gloria Upson: Miss Charles, I`ve just got to tell you how I adored you in "Mary of Scotland."
Vera Charles: Did you dear? That was Helen Hayes. Norah Muldoon: [to the electrical contractor regarding Vera Charles] It`s the "First Lady of the American Thee-ayter" out cold in the guestroom. Ms. Charles don` live here. She does her drinkin` here and her passin` out here. Mame Dennis: [to Patrick who has unleashed sunlight on a very hung-over Mame] Child, how can you see with all that light? Vera Charles: [to Mame regarding her loud, jingly bracelets] What the HELL have you got back there, reindeer? Gloria Upson: Bunny Bixler and I were in the semi-finals - the very semi-finals, mind you - of the ping-pong tournament at the club and this ghastly thing happened. We were both playing way over our heads and the score was 29-28. And we had this really terrific volley and I stepped back to get this really terrific shot. And I stepped on the ping-pong ball! I just squashed it to bits. And then Bunny and I ran to the closet of the game room to get another ping-pong ball and the closet was locked! Imagine? We had to call the whole thing off. Well, it was ghastly. Well, it was just ghastly. Auntie Mame: Exclusively what and restricted to whom? Auntie Mame: Spitting distance? How vivid! Auntie Mame: [Mame has just gotten fired from Macy`s] Don`t forget the skates for the little nippers. Get `em at Gimble`s! Vera Charles: If you kept your hair natural like I do...
Auntie Mame: If I kept my hair natural like yours, I`d be bald. Auntie Mame: Please dear, your Auntie Mame is hung. Auntie Mame: Oh, you know I really am fascinated by aviation. I never knew they did it all with rubber bands. Patrick Dennis: Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame?
Auntie Mame: She`s not English, darling... she`s from Pittsburgh.
Patrick Dennis: She sounded English.
Auntie Mame: Well, when you`re from Pittsburgh, you have to do something. Mame Dennis: That`s a B. It`s the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your late father. Emory: Hot damn! My sister`s gonna bust a gut! Dwight Babcock: For nine years, Mame Dennis Burnside, I have done everything in my power to protect this boy from your idiotic, cockeyed nincompoopery. Mrs. Burnside: [talking to her relatives] `afternoon to y`all! Vultures!
Sally Cato: Now Mrs. Burnside, I hope you don`t think of me as a vulture!
Mrs. Burnside: Oh, no, Sally Cato! You`re not a vulture, you`re just a dead pidgeon! Auntie Mame: Run along to Ito and tell him to bring me a light breakfast - black coffee and a side car. Oh, oh. And a cold towel for your Auntie Vera.
Patrick Dennis: Is she in the guest room again?
Auntie Mame: Since Sunday, dear. Now run along to Ito and hurry my tray, darling. Your Auntie needs fuel. [Patrick reads a list of words he doesn`t understand]
Patrick Dennis: ...Neurotic, heterosexual...
Mame Dennis: Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind.
[takes the list]
Mame Dennis: You won`t need some of these words for months and months. Mame Dennis: Well, now, uh, read me all the words you don`t understand.
Patrick Dennis: Libido, inferiority complex, stinko, blotto, free love, bathtub gin, monkey glands, Karl Marx... is he one of the Marx Brothers? [Pouring Agnes a drink]
Mame: This will calm you down.
Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I`m not the same person!
Mame: What`s wrong with that?
Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper?
Mame: He`ll love it! Drink! Auntie Mame: Oh, Agnes! Here you`ve been taking my dictations for weeks and you haven`t gotten the message of my book: live!
Agnes Gooch: Live?
Auntie Mame: Yes! Live! Life`s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!Trivia The stage play "Auntie Mame" opened at the Broadhurst Theater in New York on October 31, 1956 and ran for 639 performances. Rosalind Russell, Yuki Shimoda, Jan Handzlik, and Peggy Cass were in the original cast and reprise their roles in the film. The movie`s line "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death." was voted as the #94 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007. The line, "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death," does not appear in the book. It is derived from the stage play, where it was originally, "Life is a banquet and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death." Though "damn" and "hell" are both heard in the film, "sons-of-bitches" was apparently thought too rough. The movie`s line "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" was voted as the #93 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100). Reportedly, the character of Auntie Mame was based on Patrick Dennis`s real-life aunt, Marian Tanner. A good-natured eccentric, who lived to be nearly one hundred years old, Ms. Tanner`s advice to those seeking a more interesting, adventurous life was to never be afraid to try a new experience and to keep an open mind about everything and everybody. Mame`s line in French at Macy`s is "Après moi, le déluge" ("After me, the flood"). This quote is attributed to King Louis XV of France and represents a philosophy of living for now when disaster looms in the future. In the movie, it relates to purchasing Christmas gifts on credit so that one doesn`t have to worry about paying for them right away, something that a rich socialite would be very comfortable with. The technique Rosalind Russell uses to interrupt and insult Mr. Babcock - "Nuts?" - was previously used against her character "Sylvia Fowler" in The Women (1939) after Sylvia`s line "I wouldn`t dream of hurting Mary". Rosalind Russell broke her ankle in the first take of the scene where she comes flying down the stairs in the gown with the capri pants - shooting had to be delayed until she recovered. | ||
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