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Based On Play Or Musical | Plantation
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Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture | 1975 | Bea
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1975 | Lucille
Budget 12,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 6,500,000 USD
In later years, Bea Arthur admitted that she was wrong to take part in the film as it was a "tremendous embarrassment". Although she enjoyed working with Lucille Ball, she had to concede that the older actress was "terribly miscast".
Angela Lansbury recalled her time when she was playing Mame on Broadway and was visited by Lucille Ball who told her she was amazing in the part, deserved all the honors she was receiving and was a shoo-in for the film version. Lansbury was very touched by this until she noticed Ball in the wings during her performance, taking notes. It was then that she realized that she was never going to play the part in the film.
Lucille Ball was so dismayed at the harsh reaction the film received from the critics and its lackluster box office performance that she vowed never to make another film again.
Even though she played Auntie Mame on stage, a part originally performed by Rosalind Russell, and had won a Tony award for her performance in the Broadway production in 1966, Angela Lansbury was passed over for the role of Mame. Jerry Herman went to Warner Brothers executives and begged them to reconsider, explaining the reasons why he considered Lucille Ball to be wrong for the part. Lansbury admitted in a 2009 interview with The Wall Street Journal that she never forgave Warner Bros. for passing her over.
Many years later, Jane Connell went into a Manhattan video rental store and asked if they had a copy of "Mame". The clerk told her "You don't want to watch that movie - it's terrible - you want to watch Auntie Mame (1958) instead".
"Mrs. Upson: Mame, you'll never believe this, but this part of the house used to be an old slave kitchen [black maid walks in] Mrs. Upson: Oh there you are Bertha. Bertha, this is Mame Dennis. Bertha is one in a million. We don't know what we'd do without her, do we Claude? She's so nice... most of them are getting so snooty these days."
"Mame: Could you be persuaded to have a drink, dear? Vera Charles: Well, maybe just a TINY triple!"
