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Release Date: 1974

Cast: Joyce Van Patten, Bruce Davison, Don Porter, Audrey Christie, John McGiver, Sandahl Bergman, Beatrice Arthur, Robert Preston, Lucille Ball, Kirby Furlong, Jane Connell

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Musical, Musical comedy

Mame is a 1974 musical film based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name, directed by Gene Saks, written by Paul Zindel, and starring Lucille Ball and Beatrice Arthur. Warner Bros. heads were concerned that Angela Lansbury, who had originated the title role on Broadway, had not yet captured the attention of the general public since she was mainly a Broadway star at this point (although she had starred in Disney's live-action/animated musical Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 1971 and was a 3 time Oscar nominee for The Manchurian Candidate , Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray). Her... MORE

Mame is a 1974 musical film based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name, directed by Gene Saks, written by Paul Zindel, and starring Lucille Ball and Beatrice Arthur. Warner Bros. heads were concerned that Angela Lansbury, who had originated the title role on Broadway, had not yet captured the attention of the general public since she was mainly a Broadway star at this point (although she had starred in Disney's live-action/animated musical Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 1971 and was a 3 time Oscar nominee for The Manchurian Candidate , Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray). Her popular television series Murder, She Wrote, which would make Angela Lansbury a household name, would not debut for another ten years. The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, which includes his nanny Agnes Gooch and Mame's husband Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, a Southern aristocrat with a Georgia plantation called Peckerwood. The film opens with the reading of the will of Patrick Dennis' (Kirby Furlong) late LESS