The life of 10-year-old orphan Patrick Dennis is turned upside down when he is entrusted to his aunt, the eccentric Mame Dennis. Mame introduces the boy to his flamboyant, party-filled way of life during the Prohibition of the 20s. But when Mame loses her fortune in the Wall Street crash of 1929 she dabbles in a number of jobs to keep her job. care of his nephew. The results are disastrous, even funny, but Mame perseveres with good humor.
Mame then meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, an aristocrat from the South who owns a plantation. The administrators of Patrick's father force Mame to send Patrick to boarding school. Mame and Beau then travel the world on their honeymoon. But she stops when Beau takes a fatal fall while climbing. Mame is now a wealthy widow and returns to New York. She discovers that Patrick has become a snob and is engaged to a closed-minded petty bourgeoisie. Mame brings Patrick back to her senses just in time to introduce him to the one who will eventually become his wife, Pegeen Ryan.
Find "Bosom Buddies", interpreted by Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur in 1988, for an exceptional performance at the Tony Awards: