Mame [Blu-ray]

{|Lucille Ball|} stars in this film version of the hit {|Jerry Herman|} Broadway musical Mame, which featured an electrifying performance by {|Angela Lansbury|}. As {|Patrick Dennis|}'s plucky and resilient Auntie Mame, Ball's low-pitched, growling moan of a voice (a spine-chilling reminder of the sound of {|Linda Blair|}'s demon-possession in {|The Exorcist|}) and her gaudy and lumbering fashion-horse gait turns Mame into an elderly cross-dresser. In this guise, Mame rehashes the plot from Dennis's novel and the previous non-musical {|Rosalind Russell|} film. During the Depression era 1930s, she enrolls her nephew into a liberal private school, tries a turn in show business (with the help of her friend Vera ({|Beatrice Arthur|}), and marries a well-to-do Southern planter ({|Robert Preston|}). After her husband's death, Mame concerns herself with her now grown-up nephew, his girlfriend, and the girlfriend's intolerant parents.