Auntie Mame (1958) - (Movie Clip) Do The Lillian Gish Routine
Rosalind Russell (title character), with actress friend Vera (Coral Browne), panics over the arrival of the banker (Fred Clark) she's been avoiding, come to check on the welfare of her orphan nephew Patrick (Jan Handzlik), in the first movie version of Auntie Mame, 1958.
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Auntie Mame - (Original Trailer)
Rosalind Russell is an eccentric heiress who raises her nephew to be a free spirit in Auntie Mame (1958).
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Auntie Mame (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Madam Is Having Affair
New York, 1928, Irish maid Norah (Connie Gilchrist) delivers Chicago orphan Patrick (Jan Handzlik), meeting Ito (Yuki Shimoda) along the way, to Rosalind Russell (her first scene, reprising her Broadway performance in the title role) in the original non-musical version of Auntie Mame, 1958.
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Auntie Mame (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I Just Love C.O.D.
Ruined in the stock market crash, Rosalind Russell (title character) joins the working world, causing trouble at Macy's, but meeting Beauregard (Forrest Tucker) in the process, in the 1958 non-musical version of Auntie Mame, from the top-selling novel by Patrick Dennis.
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Auntie Mame (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Books Are Awfully Decorative
Rosalind Russell (title character) cons her paid biographer O'Bannion (Robin Hughes) into taking her frump secretary Gooch (Peggy Cass) on a date, so she can receive her nervous nephew Patrick (Roger Smith) and his snooty new girlfriend Gloria (Joanna Barnes), in Auntie Mame, 1958.