She gave a fine portrayal of Auntie Mame on Broadway in 1958 and has appeared in live television from `` Captain Brassbound's Conversion '' to `` Camille ''.

and Auntie Mame in the 1960s ; in 1967, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre.

In 1958, she received a warm reception on Broadway in Auntie Mame, replacing Rosalind Russell, who had gone to Hollywood to make the film version.

Remembered today primarily as a regular panelist on the long-running To Tell The Truth, Cass was best known for her performance as Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame on both Broadway and in the film version ( 1958 ), a role for which she won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress, and later received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

The book, written by Auntie Mame author Patrick Dennis, included photographs by Cris Alexander of Cass, Dody Goodman, Kaye Ballard and others, portraying the novel's characters.

* 1957 Tony Award, Best Featured Actress in a Play – Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame

* 1957 Theatre World Award – Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame

* 1958 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame

* 1958 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture – Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame is a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles the madcap adventures of a boy, Patrick, growing up as the ward of his deceased father's eccentric sister, Mame Dennis.

In 1958, Patrick Dennis wrote a sequel, Around the World with Auntie Mame.

Because Russell was still a major box office draw, with the success of Auntie Mame a few years earlier, and Merman never having established herself as a popular screen presence, the studio agreed to Brisson's terms.

In 1966, she played the title role in the musical Mame, Jerry Herman's musical adaptation of the novel Auntie Mame.

Rosalind Russell ( June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976 ) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame.

Over the course of her career, Russell earned four Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: My Sister Eileen ( 1942 ); Sister Kenny ( 1946 ); Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1947 ); and the movie version of Auntie Mame ( 1958 ).

Perhaps her most memorable performance was in the title role of the long-running stage hit Auntie Mame and the subsequent 1958 movie version, in which she played an eccentric aunt whose orphan nephew comes to live with her.

When asked which role she was most closely identified with, she replied that strangers who spotted her still called out, " Hey, Auntie Mame!

Patrick Dennis dedicated his second Auntie Mame book Around the World with Auntie Mame to " the one and only Rosalind Russell " in 1958.

* Auntie Mame – 1956 ( play )

Originally titled My Best Girl, it is based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 Broadway play, by Lawrence and Lee, that starred Rosalind Russell.

In 1956, with Auntie Mame, The Loving Couple: His ( and Her ) Story, and Guestward, Ho !, Dennis became the only writer ever to have three books on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time.

The 1956 Broadway production of Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, and the highly successful 1958 screen adaptation that followed, inspired Jerry Herman's 1966 musical Mame, with Angela Lansbury in the lead.

In 1956 he appeared in the original production of Auntie Mame, opposite Rosalind Russell, and later Greer Garson.

Cook also appeared as Mrs. Peacham in the 1956 off-Broadway production of The Three Penny Opera starring Lotte Lenya and is the only actress to star in major productions of both Mame and Auntie Mame.

After a little of it, Rubinstein said, " The way you play this piece would be all right for Auntie or Mamma.

* Mame – 1966 – ( book of musical based on his play Auntie Mame )

In 1958, a film titled Auntie Mame, based on the play, was released by Warner Brothers once again starring Rosalind Russell in the title role.

Loonette, Granny, and Major Bedhead play with a hula hoop from Auntie Macassar.

He also produced and starred as Auntie Abigail Prue in Charles Barnard's play The County Fair in 1889.

Dennis wrote several more comic novels, including a sequel, Around the World with Auntie Mame, and Little Me, which was made into a Broadway musical starring Sid Caesar.

Mr. Alexander also appeared in the film version of Auntie Mame as the department store supervisor of actress Rosalind Russell.

Russell was the logical choice for reprising her role as Auntie Mame when its Broadway musical adaptation Mame was set for production in 1966, but she declined for health reasons.

** For example: One specific person may be identified by all of the following identifiers: Jane Smith ; Jane Elizabeth Meredith Smith ; Jane E. M. Smith ; Jane E. Smith ; Janie Smith ; Janie ; Little Janie ( as opposed to her mother or sister or cousin, Big Janie ); Aunt Jane ; Auntie Janie ; Mom ; Grandmom ; Nana ; Kelly's mother ; Billy's grandmother ; Ms. Smith ; Dr. Smith ; Jane E. Smith, PhD ; and Fuzzy ( her jocular nickname at work ).

Regular subplots since the 1980s included: Howard and Marina trying to have an affair without Howard's wife finding out ( a variation of the Wainwright-Partridge subplot of the 1970s ), the older women meeting for tea and discussing their theories about men and life, Auntie Wainwright trying to sell unwanted merchandise to unsuspecting customers, Smiler trying to find a woman, Barry trying to better himself ( at the insistence of Glenda ), and Tom trying to stay one step ahead of the repo man.

Tommy makes alliance with Umberto Robina's Cubans against Auntie Poulet's Haitians, even though he is at the same time hypnotized by Poulet's voodoo into helping the Haitians.

As the novel progresses, the family is forced to head for safety at Auntie Muriel's home.

During Gypsy Rose Lee's engagement in Auntie Mame at the Warren theatre, Erik Preminger wrote: " Working for him Kenley was a joy.

Each location the series was set in, a plot device occurred after Auntie Marisha blew up the newly pine-fitted kitchen at the end of series 2, causing the oil rig to be evacuated.

His great grandmother was Helen Desha Beamer, an influential songwriter and hula dancer, and his mother, Winona Beamer (" Auntie Nona ") has been one of the most important figures in the revival of Hawaiian culture since the 1940s: composer, dancer, educator, and coiner of the term " Hawaiiana ," which describes the cultural-studies area she pioneered at the Kamehameha Schools.

The character of Precious Auntie sings and moves in the kunju style of Chinese Opera and was created and enacted by kunju star Qian Yi at the premiere.

She recently appeared as Peter Pan at the Children's Party at the Palace in 2006, and as Auntie Lou, in " Carrie's War " in London's West End, summer 2009.

As well as acting she also at one time was a school governor and owned a restaurant called Auntie J's in Brixton.

* The Girl Next Door: Charlie takes the family to help Auntie Pat at the summer fayre and meets up with some people he used to know, including the only girl from his neighborhood who refused to date him

He made his feature film debut in The Mechanic ( 1972 ) and appeared on stage in productions of Auntie Mame, Mornings at Seven and Fancy Meeting You Again.

Auntie Lou departs to marry Major Cass Harper at this point.

Some of the episodes were filmed in the Middlesex area, for example in the episode " Buses " Auntie Mabel boards a bus bound for Uxbridge and is later seen exiting the public library at Ruislip Manor.

Lynda Baron is shown as Auntie Mabel climbing in and out of the cockpit and sitting at the controls, usually with Pippin at her side.