up until around 1970 lucille ball be one great comedienne . she be such a perfect clown i only wish more people could have see her with bob hope in the fact of life because she could do dry deadpan and too . as well a slapstick . yep and lucille ball be wonderful . . . until mame . try to see lucille ball in mame be physically impossible because there be so much vaseline on the already filtered lens that you would need windex to see lucille ball in some scene . so even if you see lucille ball in mame and you can not really see lucille ball in mame . which be a blessing . that about the nice thing i can say about mame and the movie of the musical of the movie of the play ( this could go on and but it start with a perfectly funny book call auntie mame ) . give this a bad rap be like beat a sponge . so it do not matter that the music be croak rather than sing . most of the song weren not much and anyway . there isn not any difference in the first three . it today and open a new window and and we need a little christmas be all the same song . celene dion should do an album with them and theyre so big and dull . the killer ballad if he walk into my life today need a confident gorgeous voice ( edyie gorme win a grammy for do it in 1967 ) that poor lucille ball do not possess when she make this movie . ( true and elaine stritch can not carry a tune in a bucket and either and but at least stritch can put over a song . ) if you still feel your life be not go to be complete unless you see the movie musical mame and notice how there be dance in it and but whenever lucy or mame start to do anything beyond a palsied shuffle the camera cut away and return right when the number be over and the star pose with the dancer . again and it just as well . jane connell get to reprise the role of pathetic agnes gooch after lucille ball have madeline kahn fire to ensure no comic originality would upstage the star . connell be a stage performer who and like carol channing and ethyl merman and can not scale down her performance for film and so she join lucille ball in be embarrassing and though for different reason . the lavish gown be by theadora van runkle ( van wrinkle . ) and they provide the color miss in all but one of the cast . bea arthur a the actress vera charles and mame best friend and ignore everyone and do her own fun thing . if only she be in more scene . she too old for her role and too and but at least she do not maim it .