Peggy Cass
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Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass was an American actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer.
Cass in 1973
Peggy Cass (left) with James Thurber and Joan Anderson in A Thurber Carnival (1960)
Auntie Mame (film)
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Auntie Mame is a 1958 American Technirama Technicolor comedy film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Edward Everett Tanner III and the 1956 play of the same name by Jerome Lawrence and Robert
Peggy Cass
…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 a Theatre World Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress…
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Rosalind Russell plays the flamboyant Mame Dennis, who aims to give Patrick as broad a view of life as possible.
Roger Smith plays adult Patrick Dennis, who as an orphaned child is placed in the care of his Auntie Mame.
Fred Clark plays Dwight Babcock, Patrick’s fiscal guardian who does his utmost to counter Mame’s liberal tendencies.