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Auntie Mame is a comedic stage play written by American playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. [1] The play was adapted from the novel of the same name first published in 1955 by Patrick Dennis. The play was a critical and commercial success, and was nominated for five Tony Awards, running for 639 performances. [2]
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.
The Broadhurst hosted Auntie Mame in 1956, [145] [146] starring Rosalind Russell in her last Broadway appearance; [147] it ran for 639 performances. [147] [148] This was followed in 1958 by the play The World of Suzie Wong with France Nuyen and William Shatner, [145] [149] which lasted for 508 performances.
The book is often described as having been inspired by Dennis' real-life eccentric aunt, Marion Tanner, [2] whose life and outlook mirrored those of Mame, but Dennis denied the connection. The novel was a runaway bestseller, setting records on the New York Times bestseller list , with more than 2 million copies in print during its initial ...
Auntie Mame is a 1958 American Technirama Technicolor comedy film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Edward Everett Tanner III (under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis) and the 1956 play of the same name by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This film version stars Rosalind Russell and was directed by Morton DaCosta.
A shooting on a Miami-Dade Transit Metrobus containing 10 passengers left one person dead, according to Miami-Dade police. Martavis Cannon was 25.
He was a star of movies, early television, and the stage. His Broadway stage credits include Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell, and Pacific Overtures, a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and directed by Harold Prince. During World War II, following the signing of Executive Order 9066, Shimoda was incarcerated to the Tule Lake War Relocation ...
Once he recognizes a symbol on Aunt Lucy's bracelet, he decides to use Paddington to help him find the lost gold of El Dorado, a venture that has been a family obsession for generations. Cabot's ...