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Mame

Year:

1974

Duration:

132 min

Genres:

Musical

IMDB rate:

5.9

Director:

Gene Saks

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1974-03-27

Filming Locations: Santa Clarita, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Patrick Labyorteaux

Lucille Ball

Mame Dennis

Bea Arthur

Vera Charles

Robert Preston

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside

Bruce Davison

The Older Patrick

Kirby Furlong

Young Patrick

Jane Connell

Agnes Gooch

Joyce Van Patten

Sally Cato

Doria Cook-Nelson

Gloria Upson

Don Porter

Mr. Upson

Audrey Christie

Mrs. Upson

John McGiver

Mr. Babcock

Bobbi Jordan

Pegeen

Lucille Benson

Mother Burnside

Ruth McDevitt

Cousin Fan

Burt Mustin

Uncle Jeff

James Brodhead

Floorwalker

Leonard Stone

Stage Manager

Roger Price

Ralph Divine

John Wheeler

Judge Bregoff

Ned Wertimer

Fred Kates

Alice Nunn

Fat Lady

Jerry Ayres

Bunny

Michele Nichols

Midge

Eric Gordon

Boyd

Barbara Bosson

Emily

George Chiang

Ito

Bobbie Bates

Dancer (uncredited)

Sandahl Bergman

Dancer (unconfirmed) (uncredited)

Richard Bolks

Dancer (uncredited)

Randy Doney

Dancer (uncredited)

Kenneth Grant Sr.

Dancer (uncredited)

Wanda Perry

Woman in Plaza Hotel (uncredited)

Jessie Salve

Bartender / Dancer (uncredited)

Jim Taylor

Dancer (uncredited)

Jerry Trent

Dancer (uncredited)

Marc Wilder

Dancer (uncredited)

Darcel Wynne

Dancer in 'Charleston' Number (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

George Cukor was originally slated as director, only to be replaced with the original Broadway director, Gene Saks, who was then married to co-star Bea Arthur.

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The large oil portrait of Mame is based on the painting "Emile Floge 1902" by Gustav Klimt, but with Lucille Ball's face substituted, and a slightly different color scheme.

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The lyric "We'll always be dear companions, My crony, My mate. We'll always be harmonizing, Orphan Annie and Sandy, like Amos and Andy!" was cut from the "Bosom Buddies" number, though it is left intact on the original soundtrack album.

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Goofs

When Mame, Agnes, Ito, and Patrick are preparing to dine with Beau, Mame remarks, "I never thought Santa Claus would look so much like Rhett Butler." This part of the movie is set in the early Great Depression, well before Gone with the Wind or even the book (1936) was released.

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When Mr. Babcock and Mame argue, she has her hands protectively on Patrick's shoulders. Shot cuts to Babcock saying "That's not a school, it's the Garden of Eden," and when it cuts back to the longer shot, her hands are covering Patrick's ears. This odd bit of continuity is due to cut dialogue, in which she declares "What could be more wholesome and natural?" and he responds "It is not wholesome and natural for boys and girls to run around half nude." Mame is shown covering Patrick's ears while responding "Mr. Babcock! Not in front of the B-O-Y!"

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When Mame and Beauregard do their elegant soft-shoe routine in the middle of the title number, she holds her riding crop in her left hand. When the other dancers join in, the angle changes and goes to a close-up, and as it pulls back, the riding crop is now in her right hand, though her arms were linked by the dancers from one shot to the next, and she never realistically had a chance to move it.

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Quotes

Mame: Could you be persuaded to have a drink, dear?

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Mrs. Upson: Now we all know about these women things, don't we.Come down here and sit beside me.

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Mrs. Upson: Mame, you'll never believe this, but this part of the house used to be an old slave kitchen

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