Auntie Mame (film)

For the 1966 musical starring Angela Lansbury, see Mame (musical). For the 1974 musical film starring Lucille Ball, see Mame (film).
Auntie Mame
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMorton DaCosta
Screenplay by
Based onAuntie Mame
1955 novel
by Patrick Dennis
Produced byMorton DaCosta
StarringRosalind Russell
Forrest Tucker
Coral Browne
Roger Smith
Peggy Cass
Jan Handzlik
Joanna Barnes
Robin Hughes
Pippa Scott
CinematographyHarry Stradling
Edited byWilliam H. Ziegler
Music byBronislau Kaper
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
Running time
143 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$23.3 million [3]

Auntie Mame is a 1958 American Technirama Technicolor comedy film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Edward Everett Tanner III (under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis) and the 1956 play of the same name by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This film version stars Rosalind Russell and was directed by Morton DaCosta. It is not to be confused with a musical version of the same story that appeared on Broadway in 1966 and was later made into a 1974 film, Mame, starring Lucille Ball as the titular character.

  1. ^ "Auntie Mame - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved July 4, 2018.
  2. ^ Crowther, Bosley (December 5, 1958). "Screen: 'Auntie Mame'". The New York Times. p. 39. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  3. ^ Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M144.