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Summary: Your Auntie Mame is hung, dear!
Review: This is one of the best films ever made, and the DVD release is a gorgeous technicolor banquet!Sit back, have a few honey daiquiris, and let Auntie Mame take you for a ride!
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Summary: WHAT A GREAT SEAT!
Review: FINALLY! This DVD version of 'Auntie Mame' gives you the best seat in the house! A sparkling print, flawless, except for the initial slightly scratchy soundtrack - but there she is folks! Intact! Bon-mots, barbs, tears and tiaras with bosom-buddy Vera!
Candy is dandy, Liquor may be quicker, BUT Mame is the [Grand] dame! A great [finally!] tribute to the vastly talented and sadly missed Rosalind Russell - absolutely one of a kind! [And what a kind]. The rest of the cast? See for yourself - nary a wrong step. [For 1958 the dialogue is brilliant - especially those delicious double-entendres ........ 'pipe down kid, the old man's hung ..."] Footnote: At last one can appreciated the brilliant sets and costume designs [Orry-Kelly] Do yourself a favor - "Live" a little! If you haven't met this fab dame - get out there and grab this DVD whilst ya can! For all the Gooches in the world, and then some ...
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Summary: FRESH & FUNNY AS EVER.....
Review: I am happy to declare "AUNTIE MAME" is fine on DVD. This delightful romp is letterboxed but no matter. It looks and sounds perfect anyway. The fabulous Rosalind Russell shines like a diamond tiara as "Mame"---a role she was born to play and the supporting cast is sterling. This is a treasure to be savored again & again for the many hilarious vignettes chronicling her relationship with her orphaned nephew as he grows up under her unorthodox tutelage. We should ALL have an Auntie Mame in our lives and to finally have this film on DVD is close enough for me. A gorgeous Technicolor extravaganza like they don't make anymore and as full of charm and brilliant dialogue as it is endless pleasure, "AUNTIE MAME" is HERE and this poor sucker won't be starving to death for genuine entertainment. Bravo to Warner Bros. for delivering this classic in fine form.
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Summary: A Classy Classic--Finally On DVD
Review: Everybody needs an aunt like Auntie Mame. A relative to open doors, open minds, and teach you to "Live, live, live!" I've seen this movie countless times, and I must say it's one of the wittiest and most sophisticated comedies ever made, but does not demand anything from the viewer other than to sit back and enjoy (and be prepared to laugh a lot!). I get repeated enjoyment with each viewing; this movie just never seems to grow stale. Finally, with the DVD release, I have been able to see this wonderful film in widescreen, instead of the cropped pan-n-scan VHS version I'd become accustomed to. And I was not disappointed--there's more "Mame" to love. The color seems to leap from the screen, and the mono soundtrack is sufficient to please all but the most serious of audiophiles. The enormously talented Rosalind Russell could have carried this movie on her back if she had to, but her supporting cast matches her mastery in every scene. From the precocious lad who plays Little Patrick, wise beyond his years and and an expert martini-maker, to the magnificent Peggy Cass as "unwed" mother-to-be Agnes Gooch, to the incomparable Joanna Barnes as "top-drawer" Gloria Upson (you may recognize her as the conniving Vicki from both the original and remake of Disney's "The Parent Trap"), and on and on...what a flawless cast! The only complaint I can make about "Auntie Mame" is that it's a little over-long, and the action drags a bit during the fox hunt scenes, but picks up again soon enough. The very last scenes are the best, the absolute high-point being being Gloria's graphic description of a ping-pong tournament that ended in tragedy. "It was just ghaaaaahhhssstly!" Don't waste your time on the truly horrible Lucille Ball musical remake, "Mame", made long after Miss Ball's talent seems to have evaporated (not even the wonderful Beatrice Arthur could save that disaster). This one is the best! If you have any doubt about this, just check out the trailers for both films which are provided on the DVD: Which version would you want to see? Oh, and for those "readers" out there (a dying breed, I know),--check out the book, by Patrick Dennis. It's even better than the movie!
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Summary: An elegant dame if there ever was one.
Review: Thank God for producers who know when not to tamper with success. I believe most of the cast is the original Broadway team; you can see it in the subtle, sophisticated nuances in the perfomances from Coral Browne (Vera), Peggy Cass (Agnes), and most of all, R. Russell herself. Also nice are the stylish turns in costumes, art direction, and cinematography (the spotlight fade-outs at the end of each act). But the core of the film remains Mame and nephew Patrick, who's a surprisingly mature ten-year old (Jan Handzlik), and a less-than-secure grownup (Roger Smith). Their relationship is marvelous, especially when it's just them against the world. Also nice is Forrest Tucker's genteel and loving millionaire Burnside. Rosalind Russell sparkles in this one, and paves the way for GYPSY.
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Summary: I love old movies
Review: I probably saw this movie on TV. As they do now there were Saturday afternoon movies and late night movies after the news. I have only manage to see the movie twice. But it is was so good and entertaining, it stands out clearly in my mind from Auntie Mame sweeping down the stairs to her make-over of Gladys to her weaving her spelling once again over her grand nephew. I loved the movie and found it so interesting I had to read the book when the credits stated in was based on a novel. Sorry but I have never seen a movie better than the book. The novel is wonderful. This movie realy captured its essence. I was not disappointed with the transition from novel to movie. I can't recommend this movie enough.
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Summary: And what's WRONG with Puriel Puce?
Review: I was sixteen the first time I found myself under the spell of this movie. Evertytime that it is on TV I drop what I am doing and surrender to it and to Rosiland Russell who slips into Mame Dennis Burnside so effortessly that the room around me goes dark leaving her performance as my spotlight of attention. Fortuntaly, the rest of the cast shines as brightly as she does making the plot move along way to fast, and leaving the viewer to feel as if the magical moment has passed to quickly. Writing a review of this movie is impossible; the cast, crew and production speaks for itself. Hollywood could never remake this film without throwing in its obligatory obscenity, uninspired casting and vapid camerawork. Think about it, who could afford the type of talent needed today to bankroll such a quality supporting cast -- you just can't go out and duplicate Gloria Upson (and her shining moment in the cinema fermement when she asked the second most important line in the history of stage and film: "And whats WRONG with Muriel Puce?") with some bit part when it was done to perfection in this film. Hollywood knows this - with the exception of the horrific "MAME" (Lucille Ball bludgeoned the role to death with her Camel rasped pleas of "PATRICK!!!") this story has been hands off -- good for us who love it!
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Summary: Best lines censored!
Review: "Auntie Mame" is a truly wonderful comedy and has been one of my favorites since I first read the book. I was lucky enough to have seen the Broadway original play with Rosalind Russell and Peggy Cass. Unfortunately at the time the film was made, two of the funniest jokes were watered down because two terms could not be used in films at that time. 1: When Patrick tells Mame what his father thought of her, she says: "That bas----!(She says the full word) (Patrick starts to write the word on his pad of words he does not understand and Mame takes the pad and pencil and says, as she writes) "The word is B.A.S.T.-- (spells it out)and it means your late father." 2: Her catch phrase is a bit stronger than in the film. It is: "Life is a banquet and most poor sons of b------ are starving to death." When Michael (her grand nephew) says this line in the last scene, it makes much more sense when his mother covers his mouth rather than the laundered "stinker" in the film. The original line is also used in the stage musical "Mame". I purposely did not spell the words out so as to not offend any readers, but in today's films, these words would be used in a PG film.They are funny as changed in the film, but lose a bit of the edge from the stage version. "Life Is A Banquet" is the title of Miss Russell's autobiography. There are two other changes that the Production Code required at the time. Mother Burnside does not sneeze all the time, but give out with mighty bleches always demanding her soda tablets. The biggest change was that there was no wedding for Gooch with O'Bannion demanding partial royalties from Mame's book. But the film and Miss Russell are wonderful even with the tamer vocabluary and changed situations.
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Summary: AMAZING, HILARIOUS, CHARMING!!!
Review: Autie Mame was introduced to me when I was only a child. It was a favorite of my mothers. I immediatley picked up on the humour and love it to this day. I am only 23 years old, so it may seem oddd that most 23 year olds are watching classics. The characters are cast perfectly. You must see this movie. It is sophisticated, yet down to earth, and very very funny. I use Mames' colloquialisms are classic, and use them daily. This movie will make you laugh, cry, and long for a flaming martini. I would reccommend it to anyone and everyone.
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Summary: Awesome Movie
Review: It's a classic... A rich woman, looses all her money in the depression in the stock market, how much more traumatic could it be?!?! Rosalind Russell is a gem of the screen, her part is done so well, and the set changes are absolutely dramatic, and beautiful.
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