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Auntie Mame (1958)

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• Anachronisms: In 1929 Mame and Lindsey talk about what Dr. Spock has to say on child rearing, a decade before his famous book was published.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: As Mame and Patrick ascend the staircase and she explains that his room still has her weaving loom in it, she can be heard saying, "I began with an enormous rug", but her lips don't move.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During a scene set in 1929, 1940s-vintage cars can be seen through the rear window of the taxi taking Norah and Patrick to Mame's Beekman Place apartment.
  
  

• Continuity: During the Upsons' visit, Vera Charles hands Mame a drink. In the following two shots, it alternates from being held with her hands by her sides, to up near her face, then back again.
  
  
• Continuity: Mame puts the Gold heart-shaped pillow behind her, then after she talks to Mr.Babcock, then when she hangs up the phone, the heart-shaped pillow is on top of the long white pillow.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Patrick and Ms. Muldoon arrive on the afternoon of Mame's "Affair" to tell Mame that Ms. Muldoon is not the glass washer lady, Mame says, "Then I must have invited you" and takes a cocktail from Ito's tray. You hear the ice tinkling in the glass but clearly there is no ice in either of the glasses.
  
  
• Factual errors: After Beauregard takes a picture of Mame in Egypt, he mounts a two humped camel, which are native to Asia. The one humped Dromedaries are the native camels in Egypt.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ito passes Agnes on the staircase, as she is returning from her night out with Mr. O'Banion, he asks her "What happened Missy Gooch?" and she replies "I lived". Between the question and answer, Agnes' mink stole starts off over her left shoulder, and suddenly it is draped over her right one.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mame is sitting on the bar stool having a cocktail at the Upson's house, the napkin in her right hand disappears and then reappears.
  
  

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