num_pages: 299
description: 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 Russell. Since then, Mame has taken her rightful place in the pantheon of Great and Important People as the world's most beloved, madcap, devastatingly sophisticated, and glamorous aunt. She is impossible to resist, and this hilarious story of an orphaned ten-year-old boy sent to live with his aunt is as delicious a read in the twenty-first century as it was in the 1950s.
language: English
title: Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
titlecomplete: Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)
characters: Van Buren Clay-Pickett, Mame Dennis Burnside, Dr. Cheevey, Mrs. Riemenschneider, Henri Bendel, Mr. Dennis, Ernest Pugh, Gloria Upson, Biff (Fred Astaire Club), Lindsay Woolsey, Emily Upson, Boyd Upson, Mr. Townsend, Patrick Dennis, Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, Unforgettable Character, Kit Cornell, Melissa Maddox (Auntie Mame), Mrs. Euphemia Burnside, Elsie de Wolfe, Mike Dennis, Repulsive Remington, Old Casey, Sylvia Bernstein, Enid Little, Michael "Mickey the Mick" Ryan, Pegeen Ryan Dennis, Gladys Martin (Auntie Mame), Vera Charles, Natalie Devine, Emory Oglethorpe McDougall, Neysa McMein, Brian O'Bannion, Doris Upson, Albert (Auntie Mame), Fan Burnside, Condé Montrose Nast, Jessie Franklin Turner, Miss Peabody, Frank Crowninshield, Ito, Sally Randolph Burnside, Agnes Gooch, Frank Case, Lightning Rod (horse), Bubbles from Newark, Jack (Fred Astaire Club), Norah Muldoon, Claude "Buster" Upson, Bella Shuttleworth, Alex (Fred Astaire Club), Florian McDermott, Deborah Upson, Horace Liveright, Edmund Jenkins, Doc Potter, Mary Lord Bishop, Professor Townsend, Miranda Maddox, Ginger (Auntie Mame), Bill (Fred Astaire Club), Annie Laurie Williams, Euthanasia Gomez, Abraham Bernstein, Sally Cato McDougall, Margot Maddox, Dwight Babcock, Ralph Devine, Charlie Haddock, Dwight Babcock, Jr., Basil Fitz-Hugh, Willie Mae Burnside, Margaret Rose (Auntie Mame), Eunice Babcock, Miss Pringle
genres: Classics, Comedy, New York, American, The United States Of America, Humor, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Americana
ratings_count: 14309
places: New York City, New York
series: Auntie Mame
publisher: Broadway Books