Costume worn by Angela Lansbury in Broadway musical Mame
date: label: date made
content: ca 1966
name: label: user
content: Lansbury, Angela
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Costume worn by Angela Lansbury in the role of Mame Dennis in the original Broadway production of the musical Mame. The cream satin gown with gray peau-de-soie overlay and white fur collar was designed by Robert Mackintosh for Lansbury to wear at the show’s finale. Lansbury biographer Martin Gottfried wrote that the show’s director Gene Saks asked Mackintosh to design a costume that would help her feel like a bona fide Broadway star taking the stage after her years working in film and radio. Mackintosh based the costume on a similar design by Bernard Newman for a gown Irene Dunne worn in the 1936 film Roberta.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mame is a musical comedy with book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music by Jerry Herman that opened on Broadway in 1966. The musical is based on the bestselling 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and Lawrence and Lee's 1956 Broadway play adaptation of the same name. It tells the story of the free-wheeling, eccentric Mame Dennis whose Bohemian lifestyle is interrupted by the appearance of her orphaned nephew Patrick. The story was also adapted as a 1958 film starring Rosalind Russell and a 1974 film adaptation of the musical starring Lucille Ball.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Musical Theater
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Stephanie Troulman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0027.01
label: accession number
content: 2008.0027
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0027.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rhinestone (overall material)
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content: lace (overall material)
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content: bone (overall material)
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content: silk (overall material)
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content: cotton (overall material)