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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.[3] 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.

Take Her, She's Mine
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Directed by	Henry Koster
Screenplay by	Nunnally Johnson
Based on	Take Her, She's Mine 1961 play by Henry Ephron Phoebe Ephron
Produced by	Henry Koster
Starring	James Stewart Sandra Dee Audrey Meadows
Cinematography	Lucien Ballard
Edited by	Marjorie Fowler
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	November 13, 1963 (1963-11-13)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,435,000[1]
Box office	est. $3,400,000 (US/ Canada)[2]

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 Michaelson[4]
• 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.[5]

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.[6] 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."[7]

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.[8]

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.[9]

References

Bibliography

• Johnson, Nunnally (1969). Recollections of Nunnally Johnson oral history transcript. University of California Oral History Program.

External links

• Take Her, She's Mine at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Take Her, She's Mine at IMDb
• Take Her, She's Mine at the TCM Movie Database
• Take Her, She's Mine at AllMovie
• ​Take Her, She's Mine​ at the Internet Broadway Database

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