Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

of Patrick Dennis (Pseudonym), Edward Everett Tanner III, Paul Rudnick (Introduction), Michael Tanner (Afterword)

Series: Auntie Mame #1

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Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind Russell. Since then, Mame has taken her rightful place in the pantheon of Great and Important People as the world's most beloved, madcap, devastatingly sophisticated, and glamorous aunt. She is impossible to resist, and this hilarious story of an orphaned ten-year-old boy sent to live with his aunt is as delicious a read in the twenty-first century as it was in the 1950s.

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Fiction Fiction Humor Classics Comedy New York Novels Historical Fiction American The United States Of America Americana

Main Characters

Frank Crowninshield Condé Montrose Nast Patrick Dennis Mame Dennis Burnside Mr. Dennis Norah Muldoon Ito Unforgettable Character Eunice Babcock Dwight Babcock Jr. Ralph Devine Natalie Devine Florian McDermott Horace Liveright Elsie de Wolfe Mrs. Riemenschneider Jessie Franklin Turner Neysa McMein Henri Bendel Frank Case Euthanasia Gomez Annie Laurie Williams Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside Mrs. Burnside Fan Burnside Willie Mae Burnside Sally Randolph Burnside Sally Cato McDougall Emory Oglethorpe McDougall Van Buren Clay-Pickett Lightning Rod (horse) Basil Fitz-Hugh Agnes Gooch Mary Lord Bishop Lindsay Woolsey Bella Shuttleworth Kit Cornell Brian O'Bannion Dr. Cheevey Ernest Pugh Bubbles from Newark Biff (Fred Astaire Club) Bill (Fred Astaire Club) Jack (Fred Astaire Club) Alex (Fred Astaire Club) Professor Townsend Mr. Townsend Old Casey Repulsive Remington Gloria Upson Claude "Buster" Upson Doris Upson Boyd Upson Emily Upson Deborah Upson Abraham Bernstein Sylvia Bernstein Charlie Haddock Miss Peabody Miss Pringle Edmund Jenkins Gladys Martin (Auntie Mame) Enid Little Albert (Auntie Mame) Ginger (Auntie Mame) Margaret Rose (Auntie Mame) Doc Potter Michael "Mickey the Mick" Ryan Pegeen Ryan Dennis Margot Maddox Miranda Maddox Melissa Maddox (Auntie Mame) Mike Dennis Vera Charles Dwight Babcock

Book Details

Format Paperback
Pages 299 pages
Publisher Broadway Books
Publication Date September 11th 2001
First Publication 12/01/55
Language English
ISBN 9780767908191
Edition Not informed
Category Fiction
Scenario ['New York City, New York (United States)']

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