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Mame. (musical) Original Broadway cast members Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury at the 41st annual Emmy Awards (1989). The two remained close friends over the years. Mame is a musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Originally titled My Best Girl, it is based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame ...
Frankie Michaels. Francis Michael Chernesky (5 May 1955 – 30 March 2016), known professionally as Frankie Michaels, was an American actor and singer. In 1966, he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for playing young Patrick Dennis in the original production of Mame. Receiving the award just a little over a month after his ...
Lansbury, an icon in musical theatre, received seven Tony Award nominations winning five awards for Mame in 1966, Dear World in 1969, Gypsy in 1975, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 1979, and Blithe Spirit in 2009. In 2022 she received the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. She also earned a Laurence Olivier Award, three Drama ...
Box office. $6.5 million [2] Mame is a 1974 Technicolor musical film in Panavision based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name (itself based on the 1958 film Auntie Mame) and the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis . It was directed by Gene Saks, and adapted by Paul Zindel, and starred Lucille Ball in her final theatrical film ...
The 20th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast on June 16, 1966, from the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center on radio station WCBS. This was the first afternoon Tony Awards ceremony. The Masters of Ceremonies were George Abbott and Ginger Rogers. The ceremony was sponsored by the League of New York Theatres in conjunction with the American Theatre ...
Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass (May 21, 1924 – March 8, 1999) was an American actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer.. As an actress, Cass is best known for originating the role of Agnes Gooch in the 1956 stage and 1958 film versions of Auntie Mame, for which she won a Tony Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
An Emmy and Tony Award winner, Arthur was an Academy Award away from achieving the Triple Crown of Acting status. Arthur won the American Theatre Wing 's Tony Award in 1966 as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance that year as Vera Charles in the original Broadway production of Jerry Herman 's musical Mame .
Lucy in London (1966) Carol + 2 (1967) The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1971) Here's Lucy (1968–1974) The Flip Wilson Show (1971) (guest appearance) Make Room For Granddaddy (1971) (guest appearance) Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974) Lucy Gets Lucky (1975) A Lucille Ball Special Starring Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason (1975) What Now ...