My Mom's Aunt Audrey was our family's Auntie Mame. She wasn't rich, but she was quite the live wire and marched to her own drummer. She was like a cross between Roz Russell and Bea Arthur, always swanning into a room with one eyebrow lifted!
Here's my review mashing up Auntie Mame and my Aunt Audrey!
http://ricksrealreel.blogspot.com/2016/07/my-own-auntie-mame.html
Yes, my Aunt Sarah (affectionately known as Dude). A confirmed Southern belle and retired dancer who had a successful real estate career in Los Angeles later in life, she counted Lilly Pulitzer, Douglas McArthur and William Faulkner among her friends and was rumored to have had an on-again, off-again affair with Johnny Weissmuller (she once told me she had a weakness for swimmers). Her fiance died in WWI, and she subsequently never married; his photo remained on her vanity until the day she died. She loved Cuba, sailing, Blackjack and Roulette, younger men (particularly Latinos), whiskey sours, dirty jokes and her vintage Studebaker Champion convertible that she crashed several times. She loved gay men and wouldn't hesitate to take anyone to task for disparaging them.
She died in her sleep at age 88 after an evening of nightclubbing til 2:00 AM.
I think I recognized your aunt Sarah in Studio 54.
shareMy mother's aunt was an Auntie Mame, and her name, believe it or not, was Mame! They called her Aunt Mamie.
shareI actually had a few. I grew up in the '60s in an area of San Diego called Point Loma where there were several eccentric women in those days. Next door to us was a locally well known famous Starlight Opera Theatre actress her name was Mildred Lamb and another one of the neighbor ladies used to call her, behind your back of course, a fart on a hot skillet. She was very similar to Auntie Mame for sure. And I had a few School teachers and aunts that were definitely runners up to her. Oh the late 50s early 60s was a better time as far as I'm concerned at least it was during my life. I'm actually watching the Auntie Mame now for the hundredth time if not more. I been a bit down and it's by far my best feel good movie ever because it always lift me up and puts me in a better mood. 👍😁
shareMy great aunt Sydna was a country and western singer back in the 1940s who went by the stage name "Tex Ann". I knew her in the 1960s and 1970s, when she'd occasionally stay at my family's house. She was a flamboyant older lady by then, a real wise-crackin' showbiz girl in the style of the young Joan Blondell or Ginger Rogers in their "gold digger" days. It was always fun to be around and listen to her stories when she'd drive up in her giant old Cadillac convertible and spend a few days with us.
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