Ok, y'all can keep both versions of Mame now -- I just watched Debbie Reynolds and a hunk of Lumberjack Apollo flesh set a fire under stuffy society, in:
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Woohoo!
Sure its
exaggerated theater, but that's what makes it so FABULOUS.
Besides, the stubborn, fighting, Up Philosophy is a good one for a rainy gloomy day. :)