But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame!: The Amazing History of the World's Favorite Madcap Aunt
- ISBN-10
- 0758204825
- ISBN-13
- 9780758204820
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Kensington Books
- Author
- Richard Tyler Jordan
Description
Provides a close-up look at the many stage productions of the musical and its film adaptation of Patrick Dennis's best-selling novel Auntie Mame, looking at the creation of this legendary fictional character and the impact it had on the lives and careers of such celebrities as Rosalind Russell, Angela Lansbury, and Lucille Ball who took on the role of Mame. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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