Mame

Mame is a 1974 American musical film based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name, and starring Lucille Ball. The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, which includes his nanny Agnes Gooch and husband Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, a Southern aristocra... more

Mame is a 1974 American musical film based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name, and starring Lucille Ball. The film focuses on eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, which includes his nanny Agnes Gooch and husband Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, a Southern aristocrat with a Georgia plantation called Peckerwood. The film starts with the reading of the will of Patrick Dennis' (Kirby Furlong) late father, by his trustee, Mr. Babcock (John McGiver). The will states that Patrick is to be left in the care of his aunt, Mame Dennis (Lucille Ball), as well as his nanny, Agnes Gooch (Jane Connell). The two take a train ride to live with Mame (Main Title Including St. Bridget). When they arrive a day early, they walk into a big party that Mame is giving for a holiday she herself created. (It's Today) Patrick... less