Take Her, She's Mine

Take Her, She's Mine

There comes a time in every father's life when his baby becomes a 'babe'... THAT'S WHEN THE FUN BEGINS!

NR 1963 · 98 min · ★ 5.5 · Comedy

After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the term "concerned parent." Reading Mollie's letters describing her counter-culture experiences and beatnik friends, Frank eventually grows so paranoid that he boards a plane to Paris to see firsthand the kind of lessons his daughter is learning with her new artist amour.

Directed by Henry Koster · Written by Nunnally Johnson

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James Stewart Frank Michaelson
Sandra Dee Mollie Michaelson
Audrey Meadows Anne Michaelson
Robert Morley Mr. Pope-Jones
Philippe Forquet Henri Bonnet
John McGiver Hector G. Ivor
Bob Denver Alex
Monica Moran Linda Lehman
Cynthia Pepper Adele
Jenny Maxwell Sarah
Charla Doherty Liz Michaelson
Maurice Marsac M. Bonnet

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