Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 5
No consensus yet.
Release Date: Mar 27, 1974 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 347
Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the hit Jerry Herman Broadway musical, which featured an electrifying performance by Angela Lansbury. As Patrick Dennis' plucky and resilient Auntie Mame, Ball's low-pitched, growling moan of a voice (a spine-chilling reminder of the sound of Linda Blair's demon-possession in The Exorcist) and her gaudy and lumbering fashion-horse gait turns Mame into an elderly cross-dresser. In this guise, Mame rehashes the plot from Dennis's novel and the previous
Mar 27, 1974 Wide
Jun 19, 2007
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (12) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (5)
The fine music elevates this above miscast Lucy's negatives.
best left on the shelf.
Overstuffed, but the music's still great.
Mame never achieves the heights it should, but it's not nearly as terrible as some other reviews would have you believe. It does stumble while telling its story primarily because of the time jumps the audience has to figure out through small (and not so small) visual queues. There's also the matter of key points of
March 23, 2011Super Reviewer
A favorite! Absolutely love Lucille Ball in this movie.
April 13, 2008Super Reviewer
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