Good 50's Films: Auntie Mame

1958 Comedy
From Warner Bros.
Directed by Morton DaCosta

Starring
Rosalind Russell
Forrest Tucker
Coral Browne
Peggy Cass
Roger Smith
Jan Handzlik
Fred Clark
Patric Knowles
Joanna Barnes 
Pippa Scott
Lee Patrick
Willard Waterman
Robin Hughes
Connie Gilchrist
Yuki Shimoda

Angela Lansbury

When the lady left Hollywood in the mid-60s to captivate the world in Broadway's Mame, few were surprised.  Despite a couple of Oscar nominations and two decades of superb work, she was never one of the great movie stars.  I thought then and still do that she is one of the great actresses, but she never really ever made it big in the movies.

Columbia Pictures

When I think of this studio, I immediately think of four people.  First and foremost is its tyrannical emperor Harry Cohn and then director Frank Capra and finally actresses Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak.  Cohn, who had no particular talent as an artist, did have a head for business and his main concern was making money.  The others helped him with his main concern like no others.