Patrick Dennis (May 18, 1921 – November 6, 1976) was an American author. is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Authorship redirects here. ...

Born Edward Everett Tanner III in Evanston, Illinois, Dennis attended Evanston High School, where he began using his pseudonym. In 1942 he joined the American Field Service, working as an ambulance driver in North Africa and Saudi Arabia. Incorporated City in 1872. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... AFS Logo AFS was established in 1915 by A. Piatt Andrew, a political economics professor at Harvard University and a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury as the American Field Service. ... North Africa is the Mediterranean, northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa. ...

His most famous work, Auntie Mame (1955), spent 112 weeks on the bestseller list, selling as many as 5,000 copies a week. Prior to going out of print, it had sold over 2,000,000 copies in five different languages. Ironically, the manuscript was turned down by eleven publishers before being accepted by Vanguard. The novel recalls his supposed adventures growing up as the orphaned ward of his father's madcap sister, although in reality Dennis was raised by both parents. Dennis wrote a sequel, Around the World With Auntie Mame, in 1958. Broadway poster Auntie Mame is a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles his madcap adventures growing up as the ward of his deceased fathers eccentric sister. ...

In 1956, with Auntie Mame, The Loving Couple: His (and Her) Story, and Guestward, Ho!, Dennis became the only writer ever to have three books on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time. Guestward, Ho! was a situation comedy which aired on the ABC television network in the 1960-61 television season. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

The highly successful 1958 screen adaptation of Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell in the title role, inspired Jerry Herman's musical Mame, with Angela Lansbury in the lead. It eventually was filmed with Lucille Ball. Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976) was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film, stage actress. ... Jerry Herman Jerry Herman (born Gerald Herman on July 10, 1933 in New York City) is an American composer/lyricist of the Broadway musical theater. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. ... Angela Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy-nominated English actress, best-known for playing mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote. ... Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American actor, comedian and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy, a four time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968) and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. ...

Working with longtime friend, actor and photographer Cris Alexander, Dennis created two fictional biographies, complete with staged photographs. The first, Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of That Great Star of Stage, Screen, & Television Belle Poitrine, a spoof of tell-all Hollywood memoirs, purported to be the life story of Belle Poitrine "as told to Patrick Dennis." His wife Louise appeared as Pixie Portnoy in the book's photographic illustrations, which included his children and their family retainer as well. Like Auntie Mame, Little Me served as the source of a Broadway musical, with a book by Neil Simon and a score by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh. The second "bio," First Lady (1964), allegedly was the life story of Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield, wife of a robber baron who "stole" the presidency for thirty days at the turn of the century. Cris Alexander (born c. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Little Me was the parody confessional self-indulgent autobiography of Belle Poitrine (French for Pretty Bosom, aka Gorgeous Tits), subtitled The Intimate Memoirs of the Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with Auntie Mame. ... ... A memoir, as a literary genre, forms a sub-class of autobiography. ... Neil Simon (1966) Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. ... Cy Coleman (June 14, 1929 - November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. ... Carolyn Leigh (born August 21, 1926 New York City, USA died November 19, 1983 New York City) was an American lyricist and composer for Broadway and movies. ...

Dennis' novel House Party (1954), written under the pseudonym Virginia Rowans, was about a supposedly-wealthy family who were in fact dead broke. It later served as the inspiration for the television sitcom The Pruitts of Southampton. This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or of a poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ... The Pruitts of Southampton was a situation comedy that aired during the 1966 - 1967 television season on the ABC network. ...

Dennis' work fell out of fashion in the 1970s, and all of his books went out of print. At the turn of the 21st century there was a resurgence of interest in his work, and subsequently many of his novels are once again available. His son, Dr. Michael Tanner, wrote introductions to several reissues of his father's books. Some of Dennis' original manuscripts are held at Yale University, others at Boston University. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... For similarly-named academic institutions, see Boston (disambiguation). ...

In Dennis's later years he left writing to become a butler, a job that his friends reported he enjoyed. At one time, he worked for Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's. Although he was at long last using his real name, he was in essence working yet again under a pseudonym; his employers had no inkling that their butler, Tanner, was the world-famous author Patrick Dennis. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... McDonalds Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the worlds largest chain of fast-food restaurants, primarily selling hamburgers, chicken, french fries, milkshakes and soft drinks. ...

On December 30, 1948, Dennis married Louise Stickney, with whom he had two children. Throughout his life, he struggled with his bisexuality, at one point becoming a well-known participant in Greenwich Village's gay scene. He died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 55. is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bisexuality is a sexual orientation which refers to the romantic and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals of both their own and the opposite gender or sex. ... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (IPA pronunciation: ), also called simply the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. ... As a direct social reaction to long-established homophobic violence, hatred and persecution, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people formed a sub-culture commonly called the gay community (or the GLBT or Queer community). ... Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumour within the pancreatic gland. ...

Bibliography

• Oh What A Wonderful Wedding (1953), published under the pseudonym Virginia Rowans
• House Party (1954), published under the pseudonym Virginia Rowans
• Auntie Mame (1955), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis
• The Loving Couple: His (and Her) Story (1956), published under the pseudonym Virginia Rowans
• Guestward, Ho! (1956), co-written as Patrick Dennis with Barbara Hooten
• The Pink Hotel (1957), co-written as Patrick Dennis with Dorothy Erskine
• Around The World With Auntie Mame (1958), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis
• Little Me (1961), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis
• Love and Mrs. Sargent (1961), published under the pseudonym Virginia Rowans
• Genius (1962), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis
• First Lady (1964), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis
• The Joyous Season (1965), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis
• Tony (1966), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis
• How Firm A Foundation (1968), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis
• Paradise (1971), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis
• 3-D (1972) (published in the UK as Anything You Like in 1974), published under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis

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