I love this movie so much

Why so much hype?

Beautiful, moving film.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Producer: Henry Koster. Copyright 3 November 1963 by 20th Century- Fox Film Corp. New York opening at the Criterion and the Trans-Lux (and other theaters): 13 November 1963. U.S. release: November 1963. U.K. release: 26 January 1964. Sydney opening at the Regent. 8,789 feet. 89 minutes.SYNOPSIS: This is the story of the frustrations of a father, sending his "dish" of a daughter to college. The father, Frank Michaelson (James Stewart), is a respected lawyer and chairman of the School Board, who is called to account by Hector G. Ivor (John McGiver), vice chairman of the School Board, because of flamboyant publicity regarding Frank's strange behavior. Michaelson had been reported arrested for participating in a riotous sit-in strike over banned books, arrested with an alleged Chinese mistress in Paris and jumping into the River Seine in what appears to be the nude. A newspaper editorial demands he resign from the Board. It is Michaelson's explanation of these episodes that is the story of "Take Her, She's Mine".Michaelson and his wife Anne (Audrey Meadows) find their lives complicated by that fact that they are the parents of a "dish", Mollie (Sandra Dee) and a budding "dish", Liz (Charla Doherty). The father is bent on protecting Mollie at all costs, unaware that most of his fears result from an overly alive imagination.NOTES: Fox's top domestic money-spinner of 1963-64.The play opened on Broadway at the Biltmore on 21 December 1961, running for a most satisfactory 404 performances. George Abbott directed Art Carney, Elizabeth Ashley, Phyllis Thaxter and June Harding. The Ephrons, former staff writers at Fox, sold the screen rights of the play to their old studio for $350,000. The Ephrons themselves served as the basis for the play's parents, their daughter Nora was the model for Mollie, whilst the actual college was Wellesley. (Ephron of course was also a Fox producer. His credits: Carousel, The Best Things in Life Are Free, Desk Set, 23 Paces to Baker Street, Sing Boy Sing and A Certain Smile).COMMENT: I don't suppose any film genre dates so badly as a sex comedy. Today's taboos are tomorrow's ho-hums. But "Take Her" is impossible. Here's a movie that was archly old-hat even at the time it was made. Despite many attempts to be with it and titillatingly daring, the script persistently falls pathetically flat. Old-time pratfalls, weak puns that even Shakespeare would have rejected, gags that are painstakingly telegraphed five or ten minutes ahead, impossibly naive to the point of boneheaded and stupid characters — these are just some of the "Take Her" vices that make even the dullest of TV sitcoms look positively bright and breezy by comparison. All Nunnally Johnson seems to have done is to aggravate an already over-wordy stage play by adding lots more dull and downright tedious padding. Koster's heavy-handed direction worsens the situation no end. As does Stewart's mannered acting. Production values are extremely moderate, whilst even normally reliable credits like photography and sets are as dull and uninteresting as the script. Despite the movie's enormous popularity, I find it difficult to credit that even the most indulgent picture=goer would find much amusement here. "Take Her" is not just your ordinary ham-fisted farce, it's a complete and utter waste of time.

Featherweight comedy starring James Stewart as a harried dad who goes to Paris to bring back coed daughter Sandra Dee after she's fallen for a Frenchman. That's it. Stewart tries mightily as he gets into one embarrassing (albiet harmless) predicament after another while taking kooky advice from loony Brit Robert Morley. Morley gets most of the film's laughs. Director Henry Koster keeps things at a mostly sitcom level and though at least some this was presumably filmed on location, it's mostly studio bound, high gloss stuff. There is a colorful supporting cast including Irene Tsu, Audrey Meadows and, briefly, Bob Denver and top notch cinematography by Lucien Ballard. Based on a play that somehow ran for a year on Broadway.

An all around fun movie from a time when they didn't have to rely on foul language, sex, and violence for their plots. I had never seen Sandra Dee in anything other than her Gidget roles. Wish they made movies like that today - a comedy that was actually funny. :)

A naive teen provides plenty of excitement for her well intentioned Dad, who tries keeping her on an even keel. Fun for die hard fans of Jimmy Stewart, like me. Originally, a play which starred Art Carney and Elizabeth Ashley, who won a Tony for her performance.