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here is a prime example of the magnification of absurdity in a supposedly adult person in order to coax a few low-level laughs. In the stage play, from which the film was fashioned, the father was silly enough in his concern for the way his older daughter was pursuing her college career. But here the old boy is downright dotty, and his daughter, played by Sandra Dee, is such a hideously vulgar young creature that she makes an average sensitive grown-up cringe. ... The only thing funny about this picture is the image it gives of the shape of the characters' heads.
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Let's all be thankful that society is generally, if not entirely, free of such farcical types as the doting father played by James Stewart in 'Take Her, She's Mine.' And let's hope the screen will not be burdened for too much longer with such drivel as is in this old-hat Hollywood picture ... For
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demanded a rewrite with the last act set in Paris to lend the film more international appeal. 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."
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According to Fox records, the film needed to earn at least $ 6,100,000 in film rentals to turn a profit but returned only $ 5 million, resulting in a loss.
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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
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To Michaelson's annoyance, people repeatedly mistake him for "that, uh, actor" James Stewart. He laments that this has been happening "ever since
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Los Angeles attorney Frank Michaelson is overprotective concerning his teenage daughter Mollie as she leaves home for college and to study art in
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wanted to produce the play, but the Ephrons selected Prince, as Logan had wanted big stars.
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Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)
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friends and activist beliefs, Frank travels to Paris to investigate her living situation.
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We thought we could do anything : the life of screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron
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and in the film by Dee, was based on the Ephrons' 22-year-old daughter
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The film was released on November 13, 1963, just nine days before the
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Crowther, Bosley (1963-11-14). "The Screen: 'Take Her, She's Mine'".
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to write the script. Johnson submitted a draft, but new studio head
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Henry Koster
Nunnally Johnson
Henry Ephron
Phoebe Ephron
James Stewart
Sandra Dee
Audrey Meadows
Lucien Ballard
Marjorie Fowler
Jerry Goldsmith
20th Century-Fox
James Stewart
Sandra Dee
Broadway
Henry
Phoebe Ephron
Henry Koster
Nunnally Johnson
Jerry Goldsmith
Elizabeth Ashley
Broadway
Nora Ephron
Robert Morley
John McGiver
Bob Denver
Paris
beatnik
James Stewart
Sandra Dee

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