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Original LIFE Magazine — November 12, 1956
Own an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine from November 12, 1956, featuring Rosalind Russell as Auntie Mame on the cover. This collectible issue captures Russell in the hugely successful Broadway production of Auntie Mame and also reflects a dramatic moment in world history, with LIFE reporting on the Hungarian Revolution and the Suez Crisis.
- Cover Subject: Rosalind Russell as Auntie Mame
- Inside This Issue: Rosalind Russell and Broadway’s Auntie Mame, photographs and reporting from Hungary and the Suez Crisis, Fred Allen, and LIFE’s coverage of news and culture in November 1956
- Completeness: Complete original issue
- Perfect For: Rosalind Russell fans, Broadway and theater collectors, Auntie Mame enthusiasts, 1950s history collectors, birthday and anniversary gifts, and vintage LIFE Magazine collectors
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 34 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Hungarian Patriots Strike Ferocious Blows at a Tyranny
Pg… 44 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: World Opinion Rallies for Suez Peace
Pg… 55 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Reappearance of Two Cardinals
Pg… 56 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 60 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Magnetic Margaret’s African Mission: on a Troubled Continent Britain’s Pretty Princess Finds Colorful Evidence of Loyalty to the Crown. Photographed for LIFE by Mark Kauffman
Pg… 69 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Junk Jalopies Form a Jetty Near Topeka
Pg… 53 EDITORIAL: Eden’s Tragic Blunder
Pg… 72 ARTICLES: A Tribute to Vaudeville’s Golden Era: a Great Comic in His Last Book Fondly Recounts the Hilarious Legends of the Show Circuit. By Fred Allen
Pg… 178 ARTICLES: High Venture and Civil War, by Sir Winston Churchill. Third Part of Volume II of “A History of the English–Speaking Peoples”
Pg… 99 TELEVISION: A Fast–Rising Schoolgirl: a Chicago 12–Year–Old is a Hit as Mistress of Ceremonies on Her Own TV Show
Pg… 104 BOOKS: An Unpopular Best Seller: “Peyton Place,” Grace Metalious’ Novel, has Made her Unloved in Gilmanton, N.H.
Pg… 109 ANIMALS: Rare Retriever: a Hunting Dog Takes Care of Cripples
Pg… 115 MOVIES: In “The Ten Commandments” Cecil B. DeMillie, Hollywood’s Master Showman, Films Anew the Story of Exodus
Pg… 123 BUSINESS: You Too Can Blow Up the World: Manufacturers Try New Tricks to Make Globes More Graphic
Pg… 129 THEATER: Wise, Wacky “Auntie Mame”: Rosalind Russell is Absolutely Perfect in Broadway Version of Best–Selling Book
Pg… 139 FASHION: Paris in a Department Store
Pg… 146 ARMY: The Army Digs a Faster Foxhole
Pg… 149 MODERN LIVING: How to Square Flattop Hair
Pg… 161 MODERN LIVING: A Brainy Toy’s Tricks
Pg… 151 CLOSE–UP: A First Lady Minister in Robes of a New Role
Pg… 165 MEDICINE: Pets Make a Hospital Happy
Pg… 173 SPORTS: Tennessee Family has a Potential All–American, a Successful Coach and Four Other Stars
Pg… 209 PARTY: Gay Gathering in a Gallery at a Providence, R.I. Museum
Pg… 24 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Scenes by Dramatic Diva
Pg… 26 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 212 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Sure–Footed Scholarship
