Auntie Mame: Our Little Glory

[@embossed64]

Her Mid-Atlantic accent would bring tears of joy to Mr and Mrs. Howell.

[@choxxxieful]

The speech pattern is also called the "Larchmont Lockjaw."

[@donaldstanfield8862]

@@choxxxieful Hey, thanks, that's hilarious!

[@m.oriley7700]

Or Locust Valley lockjaw or Lake Forest lockjaw.@@choxxxieful

[@akrenwinkle]

@@choxxxieful I heard it called "Long Island Lockjaw." Of course, it could be both.

[@julistarling8382]

I love how Auntie Mame takes an instant dislike to this person but she just keeps on SMILING. 😃😊🙂 It's how she manages to resist saying how much she can't stand Gloria. 😉 I really must remember to use that technique sometime. 😉 I've also just now realized that Patrick and Pegeen and their future son are not the only ones who are lucky that Patrick married Pegeen and not Gloria. Auntie Mame is lucky too. 😉

[@julistarling8382]

It was hilarious when Auntie Mame suddenly needed to take a drink. 😉 (She's probably thinking, "Patrick, you are my nephew and I love you very much and all that sort of thing, but your fiance is driving me to drink." 😉)

[@davedvlaries7764]

Vera Charles (Coral Browne) stays in the film from start to finish, and is fantastic, but in a two and a half hour movie, the introduction of Peggy Cass and Joanna Barnes works like a refreshing booster shot, making the movie seem not the least bit long. The film is a flawless mix of comedic hijinx and warm poignancy and Mame Dennis is the crown jewel of Rosalind Russell's career.

[@kennethwayne6857]

Absolutely right! I read that when Roz opened in this on Broadway, one of the visitors to her dressing room was Lucille Ball saying 'I MUST play this part!'. Better she had done this than the musical. (Still would have been miscast but at least we would have been spared her 'singing'.)

[@jeffpetrie7744]

You’ve stated The Best opinion of Auntie Mame. It’s Top Drawer: REALLY Top Drawer.

[@Jasper7182009]

Perfectly stated!! 🥰

[@KissyKat]

I agree it is the crown jewel in an amazing career, But she also had flawless gems in Gypsy and His Girl Friday.❤

[@OGDeeHiggins]

“I’ll get a blood test” 😂

[@BitinTheBigApple]

My favorite movie of all time. Oh how I love little Gloria, our Arian from Darian with braces on her brain and such the bourgeois babbity snob! LOL! "I'm an Upper Richmond girl schoolgirl." "It's top drawer. Reeaallly top drawer." "Well it was just ghastly!" =)

[@djs9415]

Gregory Goodrich And ow that nasal voice.Poor Patrick must have been shell struck with this ghastlee female's beauty but imagine they getting married and she greeting him every breakfast with Aww Dahling just lait me tell you what happened to me yesterday when Bunny Bixler took me out to lunch you know she's divorcing her fifth husband because he called her dress just ghastlee.Efter I had helped her choose it. It is just ghastly what husbands think they can get away with,ARE YOU LISTENING, PATRICK?Gloria is so top drawer she is practically off the mantlepiece.

[@LBF522]

Everytime I see this movie I do wonder what Patrick could ever have seen in this idiot. She opens her mouth and nothing intelligent come out. BTW, do the wealthy use the term, "Top Drawer"

[@djs9415]

LBF522 Top drawer is a veddy veddy exclusive Brit term.So the ultra snobbish narrow minded unintelligent Colonial twying veddy hard to show how ' culchawed' she was,how well educated just showed herself as a brainless twit.In the book Patrick falls for her supposedly ' Refained' looks and mistakes it as Class.But she is just a babbling bourgeoise​ female Babbitt. The women see through her and loathe her self complacency accordingly. And owww what a painfully affected accent.

[@LBF522]

D JS, OH OK Thank you very much for the response.

[@DaveLH]

@@LBF522 : He went to "top drawer" all-boys schools almost exclusively. Gloria was probably the first female (besides Auntie Mame and Auntie Vera) he ever came into contact with. And we know that thanks to the influence of Babcock and his ilk, Patrick almost succumbs to Stockholm Syndrome and becomes a "babbity little snob" himself -- Until Mame (and Pegeen) comes to the rescue.

[@dale19532]

Sharp observers will recognize the "ping pong ball" as having been "borrowed" for "Trading Places". Other trivia: Joanna Barnes, who played "Glory", also played "Vicki" the gold digger in the original version of the Parent Trap, later playing the gold digger's mother (Also named Vicki) in the remake!

[@Theadambshapiro]

I mean, is there any question that Vicki in the Lindsay Lohan movie is just the older version of Vicki in the Hayley Mills movie? She's raising the next generation of snobs 😊

[@donaldstanfield8862]

She had the snobby persona nailed!

[@debblouin]

Yep! Loved it.

[@gregoryagogo]

@@donaldstanfield8862 her voice I like the best!

[@julistarling8382]

@Adam B. I knew she was but for some reason I did *not* know that it was the same actress. Wow. ^__^

[@roberttrepagnier9149]

Gloria Upson is simply ghastly.

[@MaidaCameron]

😂😂😂

[@jeffpetrie7744]

One of The Best characters of all time!! I grew up across the street from a girl who yearned to become her.

[@tammyerwin3806]

I fell in love with this movie; I'm so glad I shared it. So beautiful and snarky. 😜

[@wdh47211]

"I stepped on the ping pong ball...."....She is simply ghastly.

[@LBF522]

A total airhead.

[@markwhitman9029]

insanely funny movie! The cast is brilliant and these segments with the snobby Gloria are a gem!! LOL when Roz says she'll get a blood test!!!! How ghastly!!🤣🤣🤣

[@kurtfrancis4621]

RIP - Joanna Barnes...you were MARVY

[@edbarker8636]

Wonderful movie the best version Rosalind Russell was absolutely fabulous magnificent and incredibly good

[@hummingbirdcity]

Tahp droor. Really tahp droor.

[@almiragulch9975]

I love how Patric Knowles went right for the bar after her story. Great movie - I have it on DVD.

[@Demetri450]

This movie speaks to the narrative of how normal racism, marginalization, xenophobia, classism, misogynisym etc... was in society. It speaks too, when we expose our young to real world experiences of people & places outside their bubble & that does not resemble them they can still be drawn backwards through fear, greed, selfishness & a sense of superiority because of their perceived annointed status of privilege.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

We've worked so hard, yet progress remains painful slow.

[@flyboy13131]

What a fascinating commentary ! Wow. This really is a revelation …

[@lucylulusuperguru3487]

Was? I come from that type of atmosphere. I promise you it's still alive and well just much more cleverly disguised. I was the rebel heretic, however. Got away.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Blah, blah, blah, and yawn.

[@beng.milligan5741]

All time favorite!!!! The best movie ever made!!!!

[@craigbeasley1]

I agree with you totally! It's a movie that never, ever gets old or tiresome. Its joi de vivre is constantly enfused throughout its length. I adore it so much. And like you, I agree that it is still the best!

[@craigbeasley1]

"Won't you come in Mr. Milligan?" "Do you think we could ever get any place?"

[@donaldstanfield8862]

The editing is superb, the story moves along so quickly, there's never a dull moment!

[@kennethwayne6857]

I suppose her counterpart today would be any one of the Kardashians.

[@RaymondHng]

Or a "Karen".

[@frothe42]

I think you mean #Kartrashians

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Sad we still have such ghastly dregs of society!

[@frothe42]

@@donaldstanfield8862 People are worse today. And like you said, look at the #Kartrashians!

[@NS-vw8pm]

Irony of irony: Joanna Barnes was active in the Democratic Party and Rosalind Russell was a Republican. The magic of acting.

[@kimrose1644]

Auntie Mame seems like a Republican and Glory screams Democrat to me

[@NS-vw8pm]

@@kimrose1644 Democrats don’t believe in restricted neighborhoods to keep out the so called riff raff.

[@vulcan2882]

@@NS-vw8pm .. the riff raff are what makes things fun.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

I'm astounded, I imagined RR would have a dem, but back then, people were more diverse than our current political climate! Thank you!

[@JMarieCAlove]

@@NS-vw8pm Back then they did. That’s why it’s written in the movie. But it doesn’t really mention what political party they both were. It was more like how some wealthy people were depending where they were raised.

[@mjremy2605]

The ping pong game ... it was ghastly, oh so ghastly! Aunt Mame's face. Frozen in disbelief. So cringeworthy Ha ha ha ha ha!🤣🤣🤣

[@yossarian6799]

I wonder how many people make the connection between this film and the "... and she stepped on the ball" country club scene in "Trading Places".

[@cassiefallon2212]

Love this film!

[@200991602]

Everyone knows a Glory at some time in their life LOL! '' books are decorative ''

[@RaymondHng]

An early example of a "Karen".

[@lindagurrera685]

Mames reactions are priceless

[@LBF522]

She is probably wondering what is wrong with Patrick to be engaged to such an airhead.

[@lindagurrera685]

I’ll get a blood test- I’m dead😂

[@numberonefilmfan]

She played a version of this character on an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies once too.

[@wantsomecoffee]

My Nana was the manager at Schrafts. ❤️

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Imagine the stories she had, wow!

[@JeremyYost]

At 1:45 "It's awfully pretty and terribly handy to the city." Joanna Barnes is still alive at 81 years old in 2016.

[@TheBearAspirin]

Still with us at 87 in 2021!

[@scotnick59]

Fantastic character player; she did a memorable bit as Brian Keith's be-ach galpal in "The Parent Trap" as well

[@fgcaliful]

She passed away on april 29 2022

[@JeremyYost]

@@fgcaliful Whaaat? Thank you for letting us know. She will be missed!

[@Demetri450]

This movie was a judgment on society & very little has changed

[@BettinaBalser]

Books are awfully decorative, don't you think?

[@LordGertz]

Reminds my of the guest in Great Gatsby who is surprised the books are real. Sadly in my days as a bookstore manager I did have people & business come in to spend money on decorative books ( I need leather bound, blue, green, purple, etc. colored books) it doesn't matter what they are. Coffee table books were one thing, but books as mere background decor always left me feeling sullied. I booksellers joy is two fold inspiring or enriching the readers life and finding a book a good home.

[@kchara7078]

I have a cousin who thinks the same thing 👎😵

[@GloriaSimpson-c2n]

Hilarious

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Thanks, the editing is superb!

[@michaelvillanueva233]

I luv the way the ditz talks.

[@scottgrunow5201]

And the closet was locked. Imagine!

[@aliasmarg8ta127]

Mame is so bored with that story that she could not be bothered to insult Gloria.

[@teptime]

Introduces the archetype for imperious, vain, and vapid girls from "new money" families. It's all about speaking without parting your teeth.

[@Terry-te1ij]

Old money ppl have their share of freaks and losers.

[@michaelmiller1215]

A co-worker way back home n the early 1980s called it “Locust Valley Lockjaw”!

[@edwardvancampen3096]

One of my favorite movies

[@MrJasonshores364]

There was a Glory in our neighborhood when I was a kid. My Mom would infer to her as such but I didn't get it until I was in highschool. It was people that were trying way too hard to be part of the club but would never fully be. As my grandmother would say.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

🤣 Was she ghastly!? LOL

[@lemorab1]

I wonder if Bunny Bixler and Gloria Upson are still together.

[@AngelofMusic04]

Poor Muriel Puce.

[@markieV]

How ghastly! Well, it was ghastly, just ghastly!

[@SpongyOLlama]

They're dead now. Just like you will be one day.

[@vulcan2882]

@@SpongyOLlama .. and you as well.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

@@SpongyOLlama At least we're not Spongy...

[@lindagurrera685]

Love mames dress

[@feiery]

This is the same actress who played Vicki in both Parent Trap movies.

[@michaelmcdonagh5104]

It doesn't get better than this...

[@markschildberg1667]

What’s wrong with Muriel Puce???

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Everything, she must be ghastly, too!

[@pedanticradiator]

I'll get a blood test

[@MargueriteFan]

Timing, intonation PERFECTION 🥰

[@tedsmith899]

@Gregory May - You are doing God’s work, sir.

[@mehmetokay7073]

Right above Darien... terribly handy to the City, and of course its completely restricted.

[@LBF522]

That makes sense. Of course they would want to be near a town like theirs.

[@davidthaler7018]

I’ll get a blood test.

[@TheGuillermo519]

Rest in peace Joanna Barnes, loved her as Gloria, a much more interesting character than "Pegeen" who Patrick ended up with. I think with some education about the right way to treat and view people Gloria would have been a more logical choice for Patrick. After having been raised by Mame I can't see Patrick happily married to such an average woman as Pegeen.

[@mercedesvisage4131]

What !! Patrick didn't have anything in common with little Gloria 😂

[@jeanb.5405]

It was JUST Ghassssssstly!

[@wadehampton3161]

“Stir --- never shake. Bruises the gin.” (Patrick Dennis to Mr. Babcock)

[@jonedwards5283]

"..would you like an Olive ? Auntie Mame says olives take up too much space in such a small glass... "

[@daconqueror7777]

Chosen my major?? 😳

[@bluekitty3731]

Gloria was going for a MRS degree as lot of women did in collage at that time.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

🤣 She didn't have a clue! Wasn't even good at ping-pong, obviously...!

[@sandybeach123]

I don't overthink this film. I simply enjoy it and let it go. I won't get involved in all the left wing - right wing drivel. "We're good people. They're bad people....blah-blah-blah" It's just a fun film.

[@bubbaclark4355]

I love this movie wish I was Patrick

[@RaymondHng]

The actor who played Patrick, Roger Smith, married Ann-Margaret. He died in 2017 at age 84.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

@@RaymondHng Wowie

[@stevetemple8826]

Cynthia Fenwick in the Beverly Hillbillies she was very funny. RIP Joanna 🙏

[@Juliaflo]

Later on, Roger Smith starred on '77 Sunset Strip' (snap-snap).

[@radbabs2000]

It was ghastly..just ghastly

[@timothymcguire3122]

Who is playing the Upsons? Gloria's parents.

[@jo8726t]

Joanna was a beautiful woman.

[@jodie4609]

Who is plsying mame in this ?

[@cmtippens9209]

If they were playing ping pong, which, if I remember correctly, is played on a table, how did she step on the ball going back for a shot? If it had hit the floor, she would have lost the point.

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Bunny Bixler must have thrown in a ghastly trick shot!?

[@reynoelgarcia7725]

MY FAVORITE MUSICAL "AUNTIE MAME" I wish I hope CHER does a remake of this fabolous MUSICAL>>>CHER & Meryl Streep

[@rossmiles7169]

"Auntie Mame" is NOT a Musical. ... "MAME" is the Musical Version of "Auntie Mame "

[@latoshaadams3828]

Apartment

[@lucylulusuperguru3487]

Oh how I WISH I didn't know ppl like GLORIA Upton & Bunnie types. I grew up neck deep in that snobbery ugh. Still makes me cringe. I love this movie but I could NOT stand "Glory".

[@DDumbrille]

All of this plays flat, out of context and cut into ribbons. But nice try...

[@drgaryb13]

Everyone: This is what an arrogant twit sounds like! Not just like Gloria in the video.

[@2009jadeorchid]

i found san francisco yet i cannot find upper richmond this movie is the best absolutely top drawer

[@querellenono2683]

What the Hell was Patrick thinking getting involved with that Ditz,,,,Yikes, She's ghastly