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Bookmark this pageAuntie Mame (1958)
Director: Morton Da Costa
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From Time Out Film Guide
Later adapted into a Broadway musical (and one of the all-time dire movies with Lucille Ball), this is the first screen version of Patrick Dennis's novel, set during the inter-war years when the larger-than-life Mame adopts a young orphan and shows the littl'un exactly how to have a high old time of it. Sadly, the movie's loud, lumpen and hellishly over-extended, notwithstanding Russell's force-of-nature star turn.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Morton Da Costa
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 143 mins
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