Mame [Blu-ray]

Director: Gene Saks Gene Saks

Overview

Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the hit Jerry Herman Broadway musical Mame, which featured an electrifying performance by Angela Lansbury. As Patrick Dennis's 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.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/27/2018
UPC:	0888574725075
Original Release:	1974
Source:	Warner Archives
Language:	English
Time:	2:12:00
Sales rank:	21,680

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Lucille Ball	Mame Dennis
Robert Preston	Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside
Kirby Furlong	Patrick (as a boy)
Bruce Davison	Patrick (as an adult)
Jane Connell	Agnes Gooch
Doria Cook	Gloria
Joyce Van Patten	Sally
Don Porter	Mr. Upson
Audrey Christie	Mrs. Upson
John McGiver	Mr. Babcock
Bobbi Jordan	Pegeen
George Chiang	Ito
Roger Price	Teacher
Bea Arthur	Vera Charles,Actor
Barbara Bosson	Emily
Eric Gordon	Boyd
Alice Nunn	Fat Lady
Ned Wertimer	Fred Kates
John Wheeler	Judge Bregoff
Leonard Stone	Stage Manager
Burt Mustin	Uncle Jeff
Ruth McDevitt	Cousin Fan
Lucille Benson	Mother Burnside
Patrick Labyorteaux	Peter
James Brodhead	Floorwalker
Jerry Herman	Composer

Technical Credits

Paul Zindel

Gene Saks	Director
James Cresson	Producer
Robert Fryer	Producer
Paul Zindel	Screenwriter
Al Overton	Sound/Sound Designer