Mame
by Gene Saks
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Actor: Beatrice Arthur, Bruce Davison, Kirby Furlong, Lucille Ball, Robert PrestonDirector: Gene Saks
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 131 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-19
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Mame
DVD Review: Mame!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Lucille Ball so much and I'm proud to have this on DVD. It came quickly and I've been pleased so farDVD Review: Simply Awful
Summary: 1 Stars
Lucy robbed Angela Lansbury of the role when she pulled strings in Hollywood. She literally pulled the rug from under Lansbury and took this role from her. The resulting film is a disaster. The film was panned by critics on its release and did poorly at the box office. I loved Lucy on her television show. It was a terrible thing she did to Lansbury, though the great film actress had the last laugh. While both women were nominated for numerous Emmy's, only Lansbury was nominated for an Academy Award. Her film performances are exceptional and quite memorable. "Mame" was not nominated for one Academy Award that season. It received two nominations for a Golden Globe from the foreign press (Arthur and Ball) as they loved Lucille Ball. Needless to say, she did not win. If you love Lucy, then watch some of her television work from the 1950's when she was queen of comedy. As to her performance in this stinker, its simply awful.DVD Review: Falls flat...
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm a big fan of the Rosalind Russell flick Auntie Mame, so after viewing Mame I've gotta say it can't help but feel like a redundant, paler imitation of the earlier classic. Lucy gives her all here, but it's really hard to get past the fact that she seems too old for the part - and starting out with the starkly dark, Rosalind Russell-like wig doesn't help matters. I have to think if she'd played the role on stage she could've sold the part more convincingly. Since this is based on the Broadway musical, you do get to hear some pretty good tunes like "We Need a Little Christmas" and "Bosom Buddies," even if they are sung really badly. The latter does transcend it's ear-assaulting delivery because watching Ball perform it with Bea Arthur, who plays Vera, Mame's best friend, is really kind of fun. Robert Preston also makes a pretty good turn as Mame's love interest Beauregard, and he gets to sing "Loving You" (written especially for the film), which is a real treat since he's far and away the only member of the cast that can actually sing. Mame clocks in at just over two hours, but it felt more like three or four. Despite the frenetic pace of the production numbers, the movie seems to lag (this is a problem I have with a lot of the musicals from the late sixties/early seventies - the come off too heavy-handed for me which bogs down the pace of the story). The DVD has a trailer and a featurette entitled "Lucky Mame" which is basically a glorfied, really long trailer. While Lucy has some good moments here (the fox hunt scene comes to mind), she is never quite able to match the magic touch Rosalind Russell brought to the character of Mame. In summary - this may be worth watching once if you're a fan of Robert Preston, or want to see Bea Arthur positively steal every scene she appears in. Other than that, skip this one and check out the superior Auntie Mame.DVD Review: She croaks the blues right out of the horn...
Summary: 2 Stars
Critics at the time complained that "Mame" was over-produced, but you simply can't stage a musical-version of "Auntie Mame" and not have it be splashy, with all the trimmings. The hit Broadway musical, based on Patrick Dennis' autobiography originally filmed as the non-musical "Auntie Mame" in 1958, had a lot of people crying foul in 1974 (they were "anti-Mame"). The by-passing of Broadway's Angela Lansbury for the title role lead to nothing but criticisms for this new Mame, Lucille Ball. For her part, Ball is to be commended for giving a distinctly old-fashioned show everything she's got, and she has a handful of amusing scenes despite a sandpaper singing voice. The plot is the same: orphaned boy goes to live with his merry, madcap aunt in 1920s New York and learns about life. Robert Preston is well-cast as a romantic suitor, and Beatrice Arthur is wonderful reprising her Tony-winning role as gal-pal Vera Charles. There just isn't enough meat on this story for a two hour-plus movie, and portions of the picture creak and sag with the weight of sentimentality. While the pacing is uneven--and a musical montage at the finish line is grueling--the players do try hard keeping everything bubbly, and there are some laughs early on. C+DVD Review: I HATE Lucy...as Mame!
Summary: 1 Stars
Lucille Ball was the amazing, gifted, hands down Queen of comedy during the golden age of television, but she was NO AUNTIE MAME! While the supporting actors are great in their performances, Ball hopelessly cackles out her lyrics with all the grace and talent of a bull frog with a severe case of laryngitis. It was truly one of the greatest crimes in modern cinema to have cast Lucille Ball over Angela Lansbury, and watching this movie only confirms the fact that the world was absolutely robbed by the film makers shameful decision to cast Ball in this cringe inducing performance. Do not waste your money on this version of Mame, stick with the original Rosalind Russell version instead. "Auntie Mame" is still the one and only best film based on the Patrick Dennis story to date.
Description of Mame
Lucille Ball plays Auntie mame, loving life and living it to the hilt with her nephew and assorted eccentrics in tow. Robert Preston, Beatrice Arthur and Jerry Herman's smashing Broadway score add pizazz. Year: 1974 Director: Gene Saks Starring: Lucille Ball. Robert Preston, Bea ArthurThe 1974 film version of Mame stars legendary Lucille Ball and is based on the 1966 hit Broadway musical, not the 1958 movie. When 10-year-old Patrick Dennis's father dies, he is sent to live with his eccentric Auntie Mame. Mame may know nothing about being a parent, but she's got love and spontaneity in spades, and Patrick blooms in the time spent with her. Though Miss Ball seems sadly miscast when Mame begins (she's too old and can't sing), by the time the movie reaches the famous foxhunt scene when Mame accidentally wins the hunt, and in turn the heart of gallant Beauregard Burnside, you start to believe Lucy is Mame.
Reprising her Broadway role (for which she won a Tony), Bea Arthur plays Mame's boozy pal Vera Charles. Songs include the now-classic "We Need a Little Christmas" and "Bosom Buddies" plus "Loving You," sung by Robert Preston's Beau and written for this movie. --Dana Van Nest
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