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MAME Production year: May 24th, 1974 Directed by Gene Saks - Screenplay by Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee & Paul Zidel - Based on the Novel by Patrick Dennis - Choreography by Onna White - Orchestrations by Ralph Burns Starring: Lucille Ball (Mame), Beatrice Arthur (Vera Charles), Jane Connell (Agnes Gooch), Robert Preston, Kirby Furlong (young Patrick), Sab Shimono, Bruce Davison (older Patrick), Joyce Van Patten, Doria Cook, Audrey Christie, Don Porter |
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| The plot: Mame is a bon vivant who tries to enjoy life as much as she can. When she becomes tutor of her orphaned nephew, she tries to raise him with her way of looking at life: “Life is a banquet and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death”. In the meantime she’s wiped out by the stock market crash, marries a rich Southern man, becomes a widow and tries to prevent her nephew of marrying the “wrong kind of people”. Awards Nominations: Golden Globe for Best Actress Musical/Comedy (Lucille Ball), Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice Arthur) |
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Musical Numbers: Main Title - St. Bridget - It's Today - Open a New Window - The Man in the Moon - My Best Girl - We Need a Little Christamas - Mame - Loving You - The Letter - Bosom Buddies - Gooch's song - - If He Walked Into My Life - Finale |  |
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