Word: mammies
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...Tognazzi), the transvestite star of the Cage aux Folles cabaret, and Albin (Michel Serrault), the manager of the St. Tropez nightclub, are still being played by the original actors. Naturally, Zaza and Baldi have aged a little bit since the saga began--they mostly go by the names "Mammi" and "Pappi" as a concession to the passing of time...
...movie's plot, it is very simple. La Cage is losing lots of money when the movie starts. Conveniently enough, an old Scottish aunt of Mammi's has died and bequeathed her 10 million pounds sterling and so much land that it is just quantified in the movie as being "half of Scotland". There is--of course--a condition to this inheritance which naturally, Mammi has no hope of ever honoring. The condition states that Mammi must marry a woman and have a baby by her within eighteen months...