Lucy/Mame

This really happened.

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Updated On: 11/9/13 at 09:12 AM

For some reason the Cineramadome reminds me of Chiara de Blasio.

Updated On: 11/9/13 at 09:32 AM

Wow! Great pic! Warners went all out for that Mame premiere. Get a load of that signage! Oh and the dome decorated to look like a hat...they just don't do things like that anymore.

Remember seeing Mad when it opened @ Warner Theater in Times Square.

Awhile back TCM played a near complete version missing only 5 minutes and clocking in @ a shade over 3 hours. The complete sequence about how they go after the $$ was great go see. The only drawbacks are the obvious use of stunt doubles and the horrible rear projection work.

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Is it still equipped for the 3 panel films? If so it would be great to show them in original cinerama

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Every few years they have a week long Cinerama festival where they show films (usually bad prints) in three projector Cinerama style. Cinerama aficionados from all over the world come to Los Angeles for the screenings of films like HOW THE WEST WAS WON, THIS IS CINERAMA, CINERAMA HOLIDAY, SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD, SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE and THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM (these were the only films ever shot in true 3-strip Cinerama). There were other feature films that were shot in Ultra Panavision 70 and Super Panavision 70 and projected in the 70mm Cinerama.

Updated On: 11/9/13 at 11:58 AM

Still a cool theatre. The last time I went there was for a special engagement of Dreamgirls before the general release. The lobby had displays of costumes and props from the movie which was cool.

It's still the same only refurbished and it's the Arclight Dome with a whole added new theatre complex in the back. But yes- if any movie opened in LA even on multiple screens -THAT was the theatre to see it. I remember seeing Mae West stroll in for the premiere of "Sextette" godawful but a kick to see her, and every star imagininable (The cast) for the premiere of the sequel to "That's Entertainment". Also used to love it when they would have classic film festivals there - i saw "Citizen Kane" "Mr.Smith Goes to Washington" "Casablanca" and of course, spacey movies looked great there - "ET" "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" "2001". And in return to LA "The Empire Strikes Back". And then there was that incredible sound too - movies like "The Last Waltz". And a very long run - my friends and I went multiple times to see "Hair". OK, I'll - stop . This kicked off a wave if nostalgia in me. I moved from LA two years sgo and many of those friends have passed away. But oh, sweet memories.

Mame would have been great had Ball not been it. Oh well

Remake it with Bette and you would have a completely different animal.

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As terrible as the MAME movie is, some of Lucille Ball's line-readings (in the comic scenes) are good, except for her wheezing rasp. But when it gets even mildly serious or sentimental, it's a laugh riot...wrongly. It's a shame that the old guards at major studios didn't get the drift from BONNIE AND CLYDE, THE GRADUATE, THE GODFATHER, and (in the case of MAME) CABARET-- just to name a few game changing American films.

Jv92 - "some good comic line readings..." etc. Unfortunately, "Mame" was a musical.

Barely watched.

I tried many times to get through it, because friends always wanted to watch it.

It wasn't until this past July that I made it all the way through the film.

I wanted an "I SURVIVED MAME" button. I still do.

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I don't know if I'm in the minority on this or not, but I vastly prefer the nonmusical "Auntie Mame" to the musical "Mame."

The songs are fine, some of them are quite good, but so much was sacrificed in the plot and characters (no Nora Muldoon, no Mr. O'Bannion, etc.) that I think it was a step backwards. And unfortunately, I'll always compare any production (filmed or live) of Mame to Auntie Mame. Maybe if I saw a really good Mame, I could be swayed.

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