Auntie Mame - The Flaming Mame - Are We All Lit?

Auntie Mame is one of my all time favorite movies!  A classic from 1958 with a great performance by Rosalind Russell as the wealthy, eccentric New York socialite Mame Dennis.  The logline from imdb.com:  An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt.  Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.

The film has so many great scenes in it.  Here is one of them.

I love the bit where Mame sets the drink down on the coffee table for Mrs. Upson and when Mrs. Upson reaches for it, Mame has "unintentionally" pulled it out of reach by opening the door on the coffee table.  I bet that was a bit they found in the stage production and kept it for the film.  Brilliant!

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