Auntie Mame Movie Streaming
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Auntie Mame Movie Streaming.
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There are definite roles that are inextricably linked to their portrayors. Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Yul Brynner as The King of Siam, Ethel Merman as Madame Rose, and, of course, Rosalind Russell as Auntie Mame. Rosalind Russell was, in my view, a class act. The lady had style, warmth, modesty, and a big acting talent, particularly in comedy, especially the fast-talking kind. Determined, she had some career misfires, such as her unconvincing Jewish mama in “A Majority of One”, and her “slumming society dame” Madame Rose in “Gypsy”, but Roz reigned supreme in comedies such as “The Women”, “His Girl Friday”, and, of course, “Auntie Mame” which, having created it on Broadway, it became HER signature role. Her performance is recorded for generations to reach in this delighful film. Also on hand from the novel Broadway cast are Peggy Cass as the frumpy, would-be butterfly Miss Gooch, and Jan Handzlik as 9-year-old Patrick Dennis, who comes to live with his madcap aunt. Add to this the incredible, acid-tongued Coral Browne (she would become, years later, Mrs. Vincent Mark!), exquisite and intriguing Patric Knowles and Forrest Tucker (who is extremely charming in this, possibly his best role), showbiz vets Fred Clark, Lee Patrick and Willard Waterman as Mame’s snobbish betes noirs, and the largely unsung Joanna Barnes as grown-up Patrick’s unbearable, shallow fiance. Her performance, replete with annoying, Gloria Vanderbilt-like accent, is one of those ample performances where you laugh at her and disapprove her at the same time. The costumes, by Orry-Kelly, are safe - classy/crazy creations that are graceful as well as inflamed. The same can be said about the ever-changing decor of Mame’s Beekman Station duplex-from Japanese to Moderne to Louis XIV to library chic to 50s novel to East Indian-well, there you have it! And, of course, there is the fantastic Betty Comden/Adolph Green script, which is elephantine of so many quotable lines that it has become portion of my friends’ and mine lexicon! The film is a limited episodic, but who the hell cares? I definitely hold this film to the sadly unfunny, leaden musical version with Lucille Ball. I savor Lucy, too, but “Mame” was not for her. Auntie Mame is one of my celebrated heroines. She is a woman elephantine of adventure, fun, style, even a tiny bitchiness, but she is not mean. She has a good, kind heart and is not a “money” snob or a “social-order” snob. Every parent should form their children spy this film-mine did, and am I tickled! Roz rules!
The Patrick Dennis unusual was a runaway bestseller–and it was soon followed by a stage version starring Rosalind Russell, who was born to play the madcap Mame in this tale of an eccentric, fast-living society woman of the 1920s who “inherits” her nephew when her brother died. Certain to “begin doors” for her adoring nephew, Mame exposes to him everything from bootleg gin to oddball characters–all the while doing battle with her nephew’s ultra-conservative trustee, who is equally clear that the boy’s life remain free of “positive influences.”
This is a knockout exhibit, and Rosalind Russell delivers a knockout performance in it–easily her finest comedy performance since 1939’s THE WOMEN. She is extremely well supported by the sadly under-acknowledged Coral Brown in the role of Vera Charles, an actress who passes out in Mame’s apartment with great regularity, and Forrest Tucker as the Southern gentleman who becomes her knight in lustrous honor; the supporting cast, which includes Fred Clark, Peggy Cass (particularly memorable as Agnes Gooch, Jan Handzlik, Roger Smith, and Joanna Barnes is equally flawless.
The wrong “production code” was smooth somewhat in force when AUNTIE MAME was filmed, and consequently several of the play’s most well-known lines had to be re-written–but this scarcely gets in the procedure of Russell and company, and director DaCosta offers a luminous compromise between the art of cinema and the “station fraction” nature of the stage display. The production values are rich, the get is memorable, and everything about the exhibit is a spacious amount of fun; by the time it ends, you’ll wish that Auntie Mame was yours.
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Although there were a few minutes when I felt the film had been slightly cropped, the DVD version offers a visually gorgeous print of the film in its unusual ratio, and the sound is quite splendid as well. The few extras are nothing to recount of–but frankly, it hardly matters: this is one film you’ll be happy to have on DVD, for you’re likely to wear out a VHS in short order. If you need a great laugh, especially one with a slightly satricial edge, you’ll love AUNTIE MAME from initiate to attain. One of my common films, and strongly recommended.
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