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When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Auntie Mame continues to be the silver screen's exemplar. And Mame, the role Russell (1907-1976) will be kept in mind for, embodies the wealthy and satisfying life Bernard F. Dick uncovers in his biography, Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell. Attracting on personal interviews and information from the archives of Russell and her producer-husband Frederick Brisson, Dick commences with Russell's youth in Waterbury, Connecticut, and chronicles her early on attempts to attain identification after graduating from the North american Academy of Dramatic Arts. Annoyed by her inability to land a lead in a Broadway show, she headed for Hollywood in 1934 and 2 yrs later played her first starring role, the name character in Craig's Better half. Dick talks about all of her movies along with her triumphal return to Broadway, first in the musical Wonderful Town and later in Auntie Mame. Forever Mame details Russell's communal circle of such celebrities as Loretta Young, Cary Give, and Frank Sinatra. It traces a fantastic career, ending with Russell's courageous struggle against both diseases that eventually induced her fatality: arthritis rheumatoid and cancer. Russell dedicated her previous years to campaigning for joint disease research. So successful was she in her efforts to notify lawmakers to the crippling disease a leading SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA research center is named after her.
