Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame
Author: Patrick Dennis
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2002-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0767910958

With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955--and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis’ Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway and a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind Russell. Since then, Mame has taken her rightful place in the pantheon of Great and Important People as the world’s most beloved, madcap, devastatingly sophisticated, and glamorous aunt. She is impossible to resist, and this hilarious story of an orphaned ten-year-old boy sent to live with his aunt is as delicious a read in the twenty-first century as it was in the 1950s. Follow the rollicking adventures of this unflappable flapper as seen through the wide eyes of her young, impressionable nephew and discover anew or for the first time why Mame has made the world a more wonderful place. "Outrageous, hilarious, ribald, sophisticated, slapsatiric." The Denver Post

But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame!

But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame!
Author: Richard Tyler Jordan
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780758204820

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.

Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame
Author: Jerome Lawrence
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1999
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822217305

THE STORY: This fabulously successful hit hardly needs introduction. Besides being the source for one of America's most popular musicals, AUNTIE MAME set a standard for Broadway comedy that's been sought after ever since. Auntie Mame was a handsom

Uncle Mame

Uncle Mame
Author: Eric Myers
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2009-04-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786747366

Under his pseudonyms of Patrick Dennis and Virginia Rowans, Edward Everett (Pat) Tanner III was the author of sixteen novels—most of them best sellers—including the now-classic Little Me and Auntie Mame. Tanner made millions, became the toast of Manhattan society, and had his works adapted into wildly successful plays, musicals, TV shows, and films. But he also spent every cent he made, worked incognito as a butler to the wealthy, and constructed a persona so elaborate that not even his wife and children ever quite knew the real Pat. Based on extensive interviews with coworkers, friends, and relatives, Uncle Mame is a revealing, intimate portrait of the man who brought camp to the American mainstream and even in his lowest moments personified—even in his lowest moments— the glamour and wit he captured on the page.

A Winter Away

A Winter Away
Author: Elizabeth Fair
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-03-13
Genre: Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN: 9781911579410

"My last secretary was thirty-five," old M. said gloomily, "and no more sense than a child of ten. Or else she wasn't all there. You all there?" he asked suddenly, giving Maud a searching look. "No banging your head on the table? No throwing the china at me? Hey?" Young Maud has made her escape from an overbearing stepmother and come to stay with her cousin Alice and Alice's companion Miss Conway in the countryside. Alice and "Con" have arranged a job for her as secretary to Mr Feniston, an eccentric and intimidating neighbor who seems to have driven his previous secretary to a nervous breakdown. In between cataloguing Mr Feniston's library, dodging his temper, and encounters, awkward and intriguing in turn, with his son and an alienated nephew, Maud finds herself involved with local eccentricities and dramas, including a "secret" romance which has everyone talking. She may never be the same after this winter away! Furrowed Middlebrow is delighted to make available, for the first time in over half a century, all six of Elizabeth Fair's irresistible comedies of domestic life. These new editions all feature an introduction by Elizabeth Crawford. "Miss Fair's understanding is deeper than Mrs. Thirkell's and her humour is untouched by snobbishness; she is much nearer to Trollope, grand master in these matters."--Stevie Smith "Miss Fair makes writing look very easy, and that is the measure of her creative ability."--Compton Mackenzie

Mame

Mame
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN:

The Little Theatre of Alexandria presents "Mame," based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and the play "Auntie Mame," by Lawrence & Lee, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, produced by Susan and Tom Jocelyn, director Norman Bernhardt, musical director Clova Demaine, choreographer Ardith Cavallo, produced by special arrangement with Music Theatre International and Trans-Witmark Music Library.

Forever Mame

Forever Mame
Author: Bernard F. Dick
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2009-09-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1604731397

When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Auntie Mame is still the silver screen's exemplar. And Mame, the role Russell (1907–1976) would always be remembered for, embodies the rich and rewarding life Bernard F. Dick reveals in the first biography of this Golden Age star, Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell. Drawing on personal interviews and information from the archives of Russell and her producer-husband Frederick Brisson, Dick begins with Russell's childhood in Waterbury, Connecticut, and chronicles her early attempts to achieve recognition after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Frustrated by her inability to land a lead in a Broadway show, she headed for Hollywood in 1934 and two years later played her first starring role, the title character in Craig’s Wife. Dick discusses all of her films along with her triumphal return to Broadway, first in the musical Wonderful Town and later in Auntie Mame. Forever Mame details Russell's social circle of such stars as Loretta Young, Cary Grant, and Frank Sinatra. It traces an extraordinary career, ending with Russell's courageous battle against the two diseases that eventually caused her death: rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. Russell devoted her last years to campaigning for arthritis research. So successful was she in her efforts to alert lawmakers to this crippling disease that a leading San Francisco research center is named after her.

The Joyous Season

The Joyous Season
Author: Patrick Dennis
Publisher: Green Mansion Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1965
Genre: Christmas stories
ISBN: 9780971461222

When a Christmas Day explosion of temperment leads their parents to seek divorce, Kerry and Missy are farmed out to their excentric grandmothers and begin to plot a way out of their dilema. ETHS alumnus, class of 1938.

A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark

A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark
Author: Harry Connolly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-02-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989828482

A MYSTERIOUS KILLING After years of waging a secret war against the supernatural, Marley Jacobs put away her wooden stakes and silver bullets, then turned her back on violence. She declared Seattle, her city, a safe zone for everyone, living and undead. There would be no more preternatural murder under her watch. But waging peace can make as many enemies as waging war, and when Marley's nephew turns up dead in circumstances suspiciously like a vampire feeding, she must look into it. Is there a new arrival in town? Is someone trying to destroy her fragile truce? Or was her nephew murdered because he was, quite frankly, a complete tool? As Marley investigates her nephew's death, she discovers he had been secretly dabbling in the supernatural himself. What, exactly, had he been up to, and who had he been doing it with? More importantly, does it threaten the peace she has worked so hard to create? (Spoiler: yeah, it absolutely does.)