An American film.
Starring a well built American lady comedian(also a singer?)

Both parents of a young boy die in an accident. The court leaves the custody of the boy, jointly, to a somewhat eccentric Aunt and a very correct Republican lawyer....

Anyone who remembers the name of the film and the name of the lead actress?

Good evenin
David C., directed by George C. and the actress's name is Edna May O.

Bette Midler is correct....Now What was the name of the film?

PS: NOW YOU ALL NOW WHICH PART, no?

I thought Roseanne too. Bette Midler is so brilliant. Portokal ?

I remember Bette in a wonderful film about two girls who grew up together but then grew apart (as far as I remember). Bette Midler was one of them and her friend turned up to tell her she was dying and needed her to look after her daughter. Was it called Beaches? I think it was

Thanks for the joint effort..

I will try to be the nicest boy around, for the next two days, if I can get the correct answer...

Every troublemaker has a price )))))))

I never said portokal was right...I thanked her too, for her effort, but never said she was right...

OK...In that case, I shall be a nice boy-for one day only

Yes, you weren't seeing things Lsdyinred. I assumed Portokal had solved the puzzle then checked it out and so changed my post

thank you, Alpha.
i remembered David Copperfield, but aunt Betsy in the movie of Cukor actually does not correspond to your description.
a troublemaker

This film should be at least 15-20 years old...

there is a david c. in 1969, too.

I am sorry...I have to make a correction, my client changed her opinion.

My client having looked up Bette Midler, Dolly Parton and Roseanne Bar from the net clarifies...none of these ladies is correct....so both questions are yet unreplied...

Sorry to have misled you all....my fault

No-one has mentioned Barbara Streisand?

http://www.barbrastreisand.com/index.php?page=film

Here is a link to her fims, the link button is not work properly.

Perhaps it was her?

I can't think of anyone else who is a singer and an actress and who could be considered buxom

Might be best to wait for the American ladies to wake up, they should know!

Any idea of how old the movie is?

Ahh well it isn't Rainbow on the River then with Louise Beavers... that was was made in 1936. will keep trying!

Could it be Mame made in 1974? Synopise: The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death." Also figuring in the story line are Mame's personal secretary and nanny-in-law Agnes Gooch and her "bosom buddy" Vera Charles, the baritone actress and world's greatest lush. Mame loses her fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and tries her hand at a number of jobs, with comically disastrous results, but perseveres with good humor and an irrepressible sense of style.

Mame eventually meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, a Southern aristocrat with a Georgia plantation called Peckerwood. The trustees of Mame's late brother (Patrick's father) force Mame to send Patrick off to boarding school (St Boniface, in Massachusetts), and Mame and Beau travel the world on an endless honeymoon that finally ends when Beau falls off an Alp. Mame returns home a wealthy widow to discover that Patrick has become a priggish snob engaged to an empty-headed debutante, Gloria Upson, from a bigoted family. Mame brings Patrick to his senses just in time to introduce him to the woman who eventually will become his wife. As the story ends, Mame is preparing to take Patrick's young son Peter to India (Siberia in the film) with her usual flair.

Could it be this ?

http://wc04.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:25520

Thank you all, especially shama-uk...

The film is Mame, starring Lucille Ball...

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1085/Mptv/1085/0069_2060.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0071803

Yours sincerely,
nice AlphaF (starting now, for 2 days)

good thread. could be the start of a new game. A sort of non visual charades. Your turn shama_uk .

Don't know what Alpha is talking about, but it reminds me somewhat of Auntie Mame

This site is related to Turkey and, at the very least, your post should have mentioned something about the subject in the context of Turkish films...

MY TURN>>>>GUESS WHO IS...

....a european 19th century writer in love with the Orient.Had a pen name which used to be a nickname because of his/her shy nature...

If it's hard I'll give more hints later

Pierre Loti, or Agatha Christie, the legendary Byron
I might be wrong

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/817/cu2.htm

Of course, I knew it all the time: Pierre Loti.