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Wikipedia article
'Take Her, She's Mine' is a 1963 American comedy film starring James Stewart and Sandra Dee based on the 1961 Broadway comedy written by Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron. The film was directed by Henry Koster with a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson. It features an early film score by prolific composer Jerry Goldsmith.Clemmensen, Christian. [http://www.filmtracks.com/composers/goldsmith.shtml Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004) tribute] at Filmtracks.com. Retrieved 2011-04-14. The character of Mollie, played by Elizabeth Ashley on Broadway and in the film by Dee, was based on 22-year-old Nora Ephron. The supporting cast features Robert Morley, John McGiver and Bob Denver.
Plot
A Los Angeles attorney is overprotective toward his teenage daughter as she leaves home for college and to study art in Paris. Concerned over the letters that she has written describing her beatnik friends and activist beliefs, he travels to Paris to investigate her living situation.
Cast
* James Stewart as Frank MichaelsonTo 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."
* Sandra Dee as Mollie Michaelson
* Audrey Meadows as Anne Michaelson
* Robert Morley as Mr. Pope-Jones
* John McGiver as Hector G. Ivor
* Bob Denver as coffeehouse singer
* Philippe Forquet as Henri Bonnet
* Monica Moran as Linda Lehman
* Cynthia Pepper as Adele
* Jenny Maxwell as Sarah
* Charla Doherty as Liz Michaelson
* Maurice Marsac as M. Bonnet
* Marcel Hillaire as Policeman
* Irene Tsu as Miss Wu
* Charles Robinson as Stanley
Development
The film was based on a popular play with Art Carney. It was written by Henry and Phoebe Ephron based on Phoebe's correspondence with their daughter Nora, who was away at college. They wrote the script in six weeks and sent it to their agent. Both Josh Logan and Hal Prince wanted to produce the film, but the Ephrons decided on Prince as Logan had wanted big stars.
Production
The film rights were bought by 20th Century-Fox, which hired Nunnally Johnson to write the script. Johnson submitted a draft, but new studio head Darryl F. Zanuck demanded a rewrite with the last act set in Paris to lend the film more international appeal.Johnson p 367-368 Johnson later called the ending "a very lousy third act, all taken on the back lot and the French didn't understand that any more than the Americans either, by that time. But he (Zanuck) insisted on it."Johnson p 369
After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, all 350 copies of the film were recalled by 20th Century-Fox to delete references to the slain president.
Reception
According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $6,100,000 in film rentals to break even and made $5 million, resulting in a loss.
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