| Auntie Mame | 
 enlarge | Director: Morton Dacosta
Actors: Morton Dacosta, Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark
Studio: Warner
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  111 reviews
Sales Rank: 344
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6305128332
UPC: 085391669531
EAN: 9786305128335
ASIN: 6305128332
Theatrical Release Date: December 27, 1958
Release Date: July 10, 2001
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 One of my favorite DVDs May 5, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this as soon as it came out on DVD. I just got around to reviewing it.The sound is not as great as I'd like but it is a must have.
Image quality is stunning. This movie makes me wish I had a huge tv and not just a 36". This is one of the best written films. You will watch again and again. My fiancee doesn't normally watc older films. He has seen this one over and over. He will start reading or playing on the pc and always sets it aside to watch one more time with me. You can't help yourself. That is the best praise I can think of. Buy this dvd. I can't think of anyone who would dislike it. Seriously. It was a hit play and a hit movie. If you like old movies and this one try "the Women" on DVD. Not as broad of an appeal. But the same quick wit and same sort of humour. And Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, and Joan Crawford too.
Life is a banquet........ May 1, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
And most poor fans of Lucille Ball will be starving to death. I still have this and it's counterpart on tape. May buy it on disc soon, as it is one of my favorites (Rosalind Russell Rules). But who was the nutcase who included the trailer for the musical from 1974, without releasing a DVD of the musical? Oh well, I guess we buy this one now, and will get the musical next year. Wait, it IS next year. Come on Warner release the other one too.:-)
 Mame was better April 13, 2004
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Lucille Ball version was sooooo much better. If you want to see a good version of this movie, get "Mame" with Lucille Ball, not "Auntie Mame!"
Boring !!! April 5, 2004
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Rosalind Russell, is overly acting and her timing is off in this movie if you want a good movie with her in try 'The Women'. The 1974 version of mame with Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur is wonderful.Lucille Balls comic talents shine in that movie.Thats alot more than I can say for Rosalind Russell! boring performance!!
Great movie, great transfer, too bad there's no DVD extras March 25, 2004
I just finished Richard Tyler Jordan's delightful, illuminating and photo-filled new (2004) paperback original, BUT DARLING, I'M YOUR AUNTIE MAME: THE AMAZING HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S FAVORITE MADCAP AUNT and I learned so much about how the Auntie Mame character was created by Patrick Dennis (a.k.a. Edward Tanner) and how she evolved from the novel to a Broadway play, smash hit movie with Rosalind Russell, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical starring Angela Lansbury and finally a movie musical starring Lucille Ball. That book sent me back to the original motion picture and what a joy it is to see in widescreen and with such a crisp picture quality. My only complaint is that Warner Brothers was pretty skimpy on the extras--besides a trailer, the only other extra is the ability to play the entiure movie without dialogue and sound effects, but just listen to the music. Um, yeah....that will be something everyone will want to do. A commentary track by MAME historian Richard Tyler Jordan or Patrick Dennis biographer (UNCLE MAME) Eric Myers would have been great fun!
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