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2 Cast. 3 Production. ... Auntie Mame is a 1958 American Technirama Technicolor comedy film based on the 1955 novel of the ... Mame, starring Lucille Ball as the ...
Mame is a 1974 Technicolor musical film in Panavision based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name (itself based on the 1958 film Auntie Mame) and the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis. It was directed by Gene Saks , and adapted by Paul Zindel , and starred Lucille Ball in her final feature film role.
In 1974, the musical version was made into a film of the same title starring Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur (reprising her stage role), and Robert Preston. This film was a failure at the box office—despite breaking attendance records during its Radio City Music Hall run—and critics generally panned it for Ball's singing ability and thought she ...
Mame is a musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.Originally titled My Best Girl, it is based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and the 1956 Broadway play of the same name by Lawrence and Lee.
In the 1930s, Lucille Ball and Judy Garland began appearing on the big screen in various films, the latter in larger-known films, and the former in B-pictures. By the 1950s, ...
Connell's most prominent success came in 1966 when she was cast as Agnes Gooch in the original Broadway production of Jerry Herman's Mame. She recreated the role in the 1974 screen adaptation after Lucille Ball, the film's star, became dissatisfied with Madeline Kahn, who originally had been signed to play Gooch. [5]
So said the eternal queen of comedy, Lucille Ball. In a way, she was right: She surrounded herself with the best writers, co-stars and producers, and through her brilliance, boldness and
In her new book, “Cher: The Memoir, Part One,” Cher writes that she reached out to Lucille Ball, who had had similar problems in her marriage to her "I Love Lucy" co-star Desi Arnaz.