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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 as well as a Hollywood musical, and a fabulous movie starring Rosalind... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mame Dennis: A free-spirited woman who is made guardian of her young nephew and teaches him some important life lessons.
- Patrick Dennis: A young boy, who under the tutulage of his aunt, learns how to enjoy life.
- Norah: Mame's friend
- Mr. Babcock: Executor of Patrick (Mame's nephew) will
- Margot: Mame's friend
- Brian O'Bannion: Ghost writer for Mame's book
- Vera: Actress and Mame's best friend
- Mrs. Burnside: Beauregard Burnside's (Mame's future husband) mother. A typical southern landowner
- Pegueen: Marries Patrick
- Maddox Island: Do not remember
- Mrs. Upson: Do not remember
- Mr. Pugh: Do not remember
- Agnes Gooch: Mame's secretary for writing her memoirs
- Michael: Son of Patrick and Peguine
- Ito: Mame's srvant
- Melissa: Do not remember
- Miranda: Do not remember
- Mary: Do not rmember
- Auntie Mame: Mame Dennis, an eccentric character and protagonist of the novel
- Boyd: Do not remember
- Claude: Do not remember
- Sally Cato Mcdougall: Mame's servant
- Alex: Do not remember
- Gladys: Gloria's mother
- Dr. Cheevey: Do not remember
- Deborah: Do not remember
- Ralph: Do not remember
- Albert: Do not remember
- Margaret Rose: Do not remember
- Doris: Do not remember
- Auntie Manic: Mame Dennis - protagonist
- Beau: Beauregard Burnside, a gentleman from the south who falls in love with Auntie Mame and marries her
- Edna: Mame's friend
- Miss Gooch: Agnes Gooch - hired as Mame's secretary so she can write her memoir.
- Gloria: Patric's fiance
- Edmund: Do not remember
- Sally Cato: In love with "Beau" tries to sabotage the fox hunt , trying to kill Mame and get Beau back for herself
- Miss Pringle: Do not remember
- Mr. Gilbert: Do not remember
- Mick: Do not remember
- Natalie: Do not remember
- Buster: Add a description of this character.
- Buckley
- Mumsie
Quotes edit
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“Life is a banquet and most people are starving to death.”
Mame Dennis
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She was built along the lines of a General Electric refrigerator and looked like a cross between Caligula and a cockatoo.
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“My dear, a rich vocabulary is the true hallmark of every intellectual person.
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Morning, I soon discovered, was one o’clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.
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One lady with red hair said that she spent an hour a day on the Couch with her doctor and that he charged her twenty-five dollars every time she came. Norah led me to another part of the room.
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There was a kind of up-and-at-’em spirit of a speak-easy Girl Scout to my aunt.
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“I wish you wouldn’t use the term Christian where it is so obviously misapplied,”
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The time to worry isn’t when they’re talking about you. It’s when they’re not talking about you.”
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The relatives kept coming. They all had two first names and some of them even had two last names. There were about six men named Moultrie, four named Calhoun, eight called Randolph, and almost everybody had a Lee tucked
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She was a grim, taciturn woman, but when she put her mind to it, she could converse on several subjects: a) her exalted ancestors, b) how uppity the nigrahs were gettin’, c) the Yankees, d) how unworthy everyone but Mrs. Burnside was, and e) the lamentable condition of her bowels.
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Now she’d mixed the ateliers of Paris with the crochet hook of Kew Gardens so that she looked like a cross between a demimondaine and a string laundry bag.
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Setting & Locations edit
primarily, New York.
- Auntie Maine
- New York
- St. Boniface Academy
- Boston
- Europe
- Washington Square
- Newark
- Buffalo
- India
- Scarsdale
- Connecticut
- Paris
- Beekman Place
- Chicago
- Old Coolidge House
- Algonquin
- New England
- Philadelphia
- France
- Massachusetts
- New Year
First Sentence edit
It has rained all day.
Table of Contents edit
One: Auntie Mame and the Orphan Boy
Two: Auntie Mame and the Children's Hour
Three: Auntie Mame in the Temple of Mammon
Four: Auntie Mame and the Southern Belle
Five: Auntie Mame, Lady of Letters
Six: Auntie Mame on a Mission of Mercy
Seven: Auntie Mame in the Ivy League
Eight: Auntie Mame and My Punctured Romance
Nine: Auntie Mame and the Call to Arms
Ten: Auntie Mame's Golden Summer
Eleven: Auntie Mame Revisited
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (publisher edition list)
This is book 2 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels in 1955. (authoritative list)
This is book 4 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels in 1956. (authoritative list)
This book is in 100 One-Night Reads: A Book Lover's Guide. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Patrick Dennis (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Frederick Muller Ltd
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1955
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Frederick Muller Ltd
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1955
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 320
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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