Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 06/19/2007
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 131 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the hit
Jerry Herman Broadway
musical, which featured an electrifying performance by
Angela Lansbury. As
Patrick Dennis' plucky and resilient Auntie Mame, Ball's low-pitched, growling moan of a voice (a spine-chilling reminder of the sound of
Linda Blair's demon-possession in
The Exorcist) and her gaudy and lumbering fashion-horse gait turns Mame into an elderly cross-dresser. In this guise,
Mame rehashes the plot from Dennis's novel and the previous non-musical
Rosalind Russell film. During the Depression era 1930s, she enrolls her nephew into a liberal private school, tries a turn in show business (with the help of her friend
Vera [
Beatrice Arthur]), and marries a well-to-do Southern planter (
Robert Preston). After her husband's death, Mame concerns herself with her now grown-up nephew, his girlfriend, and the girlfriend's intolerant parents.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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