Playing Mamie Fish: A Conversation with Ashlie Atkinson and Keith Taillon
Mamie Fish, the eagle-eyed, sharp-tongued social arbiter who regularly appears in the HBO series “The Gilded Age” was indeed a real Gilded Age socialite. She was known for her incisive wit and no-nonsense comments on the glittering world around her. In this encore episode, Carl sits down with actor Ashlie Atkinson who plays Mamie in the series and listener favorite historian Ketih Taillon to talk about the real Mamie Fish and both what the real and fictional Mamie are really like.
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