Take Her, She's Mine (1963)

Director:

Henry Koster

Writers:

Henry Ephron (play)
Phoebe Ephron (play)

Release Date:

13 November 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Jimmy Stewart plays a cautious father to Sandra Dee, who is going off to college. He gets so worried...

Plot Keywords:

College | Artist | Atomic Bomb | Lawyer | Hippie

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

James Stewart	...	Frank Michaelson / Narrator
Sandra Dee	...	Mollie Michaelson
Audrey Meadows	...	Anne Michaelson
Robert Morley	...	Mr. Pope-Jones, Englishman
Philippe Forquet	...	Henri Bonnet
John McGiver	...	Hector G. Ivor
Bob Denver	...	Emmett, Singer in Sleeping Pill Coffeehouse (as Robert Denver)
Monica Moran	...	Linda Lehman
Cynthia Pepper	...	Adele
Jenny Maxwell	...	Sarah
Charla Doherty	...	Liz Michaelson
Maurice Marsac	...	M. Bonnet
Marcel Hillaire	...	Policeman
Irene Tsu	...	Miss Wu
Charles Robinson	...	Stanley

Runtime:

98 min | 94 min (FMC Library Print)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #20525) | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles International Airport - 1 World Way, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

All of Jim Nabors' dialog was dubbed over by another actor's voice.

Goofs:

Continuity: The newspaper picture of Frank jumping off the riverboat does not match the actual scene of Frank jumping off.

Quotes:

man at LAX: Scooby!
Mollie Michaelson: Scooby-doo!

Movie Connections:

References The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Soundtrack:

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Dish In Residence

It's been commented on by many critics that James Stewart has been the actor most partnered with top directors. His films with Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and Frank Capra have been studied over and over again. But it would surprise many to learn that after the eight he did with Anthony Mann, the second place finisher is Henry Koster with five films with James Stewart.

The five films are Harvey, No Highway, Mr. Hobbs Goes On a Vacation, Dear Brigitte and Take Her She's Mine. And then they further subdivide as Stewart plays three types of character. He's the absent minded professor in No Highway and Dear Brigitte and the harassed father of girls in Mr. Hobbs and Take Her She's Mine. Both of which he plays to perfection. And of course there is Harvey in a class all by itself.

Father is the last to know that his daughter has grown up to be a "dish." But that is in fact what Sandra Dee has done. Apparently just hanging around has put all the boys' hormones into an exponential overdrive. Poor Stewart is walking innocently into all kinds of grief trying to protect Dee's virtue. The California based Stewart's concern has taken him to New England and then to Paris.

Some pretty funny things happen to poor Jimmy. But I think you'll like best the way his costume falls apart on a chartered boat in the Seine due to some bad advice that he gets from a fellow hotel guest Robert Morley. Still cracks me up 43 years after first seeing it.

Audrey Meadows plays the patient wife and mother to Stewart and Dee borrowing a little from Alice Kramden. And I think today's audience will appreciate seeing Bob Denver essentially reprising his role as a Maynard G. Krebs type beatnik. Look for James Brolin in a tiny role as one of the hormonally charged college kids.

Koster and Stewart work well together. Maybe at some point his partnership with Stewart will get some study as well.