Robert E. Lee

I mean, most of the stuff is fictional, but his aunt was eccentric.

And that of course became the play in 1956, Auntie Maine by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which was directed by Morden DaCosta, who was also the director of this film, which came out in 1958.

So people at that time, were probably extremely familiar with this property because of the novel, and then people that lived in the New York area saw the play that went on for, like, what, a year, year and a half, before Rosalind Russell switched over to the movie, and then other, I think, Gere Garson was the next actress to take over, and a whole bunch of, you know, highly... acclaimed performers who take over the role of Auntie Mame.

I don't think, I don't know if any of them ever could equal the energy that Rosalind Russell brought to the role, but being at its feet or something, I'll never know because I was not there.