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Auntie Mame 1958 3 and a half stars

    N/R, 143 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Morton DaCosta
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Jan Handzlik, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass, Joanna Barnes, Willard Waterman, Pippa Scott, Lee Patrick, Robin Hughes, Connie Gilchrist, Yuki Shimoda

  Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell) takes over the guardianship of her orphaned nephew, Patrick (Jan Handzlik as the boy/Roger Smith as the adult). It is love at first sight when Mame introduces Patrick to her madcap world of N.Y.C. sophistication in the Jazz Age. Academy Award nominations include Best Picture, Actress (Russell), and Supporting Actress (Peggy Cass).

Cast
Rosalind Russell	Mame Dennis
Forrest Tucker	Beauregard Jackson B.Burnside
Coral Browne	Vera Charles
Fred Clark	Dwight Babcock
Roger Smith	Patrick Dennis--older
Jan Handzlik	Patrick Dennis--younger
Patric Knowles	Lindsay Woolsey
Peggy Cass	Agnes Gooch
Joanna Barnes	Gloria Upson
Willard Waterman	Claude Upson
Pippa Scott	Pegeen Ryan
Lee Patrick	Doris Upson
Robin Hughes	Brian O'Bannion
Connie Gilchrist	Norah Muldoon
Yuki Shimoda	Ito

Island of Love 1963 1 and a half stars

    N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Morton DaCosta
Cast: Robert Preston, Tony Randall, Giorgia Moll, Walter Matthau, Betty Bruce, Michael Constantine, Norma Varden, Titos Vandis, Lewis Charles, Peter Mamakos

  Two con men, Steve Blair (Robert Preston) and Paul Ferris (Tony Randall), trying to escape from gangster Tony Dallas (Walter Matthau), turn a Greek island's faltering tourist trade around by promoting the island as "The Island of Love."

The Music Man 1962 4 stars

    N/R, 151 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Morton DaCosta
Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton, Ron Howard, Charles(2) Lane, Mary Wickes, Rance Howard, Timmy Everett, Susan Luckey, Harry Hickox, William Fawcett, Percy Helton

  Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston) arrives in River City, Iowa, around 1900. He plans to work a scam on the citizens by forming a boys' marching band, but he falls in love with Marion (Shirley Jones) the librarian and changes his tune. Great Meredith Willson songs include "Seventy-Six Trombones," "Ya Got Trouble," "Gary, Indiana," "Till There Was You," "Marian the Librarian," and "Wells Fargo Wagon." An Oscar was awarded for Best Musical Score, and there were five nominations, including Best Picture.

Movie Quick Pick

1. Auntie Mame (1958)
2. Island of Love (1963)
3. The Music Man (1962)

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