Themes: Generation Gap, Fathers and Daughters, Miscarriage of Justice
Main Cast: James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley, Philippe Forquet
Release Year: 1963
Country: US
Run Time: 98 minutes
Plot
In this generation gap movie of the early 1960s, Sandra Dee is Mollie Michaelson, a teenage rebel enamored with long-haired hippies and radical anti-nuclear political causes. Her involvement in such activities sends her ultra-conservative father Frank (James Stewart) into a tizzy. His reassuring wife is played by Audrey Meadows. Frank's furor deepens when Mollie is sent to Paris on an art scholarship. Back at home, Frank picks up a popular magazine and finds that his daughter has posed on the cover for a radical artist, Henri Bonnet (Philippe Forquet). He pursues her to save her from further degradation, but he ends up in a café in the wrong part of Paris just as it is raided by police. They arrest him on trumped-up and erroneous charges, and he struggles to prove that he's not guilty. This film was based on a play by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
Malcolm Brown - Art Director, Jack Martin Smith - Art Director, William Travilla - Costume Designer, Joseph E. Richards - First Assistant Director, Henry Koster - Director, Marjorie Fowler - Editor, Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score), Jerry Goldsmith - Musical Direction/Supervision, Ben Nye, Sr. - Makeup, Lucien Ballard - Cinematographer, Henry Koster - Producer, Stuart A. Reiss - Set Designer, Walter Scott - Set Designer, L.B. Abbott - Special Effects, Emil Kosa, Jr. - Special Effects, W.D. Flick - Sound/Sound Designer, Nunnally Johnson - Screenwriter, Henry Ephron - Play Author, Phoebe Ephron - Play Author
Take Her, She's Mine is a 1963 comedy film starring James Stewart and Sandra Dee. The film was written by Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron, and Nunnally Johnson, with Dee's character based on the then 22-year-old Nora Ephron, and directed by Henry Koster.
^ To Michaelson's annoyance, people repeatedly mistake him for "that, uh, actor" James Stewart. He laments that this has been happening "ever since Mr. Smith Goes to Washington came out."
