Take Her, Shes Mine

Publish date: 2024-03-08

The screen version of Take Her, She's Mine is an improvement over the Phoebe and Henry Ephron stage play from which it springs, even though several of the revisions and additions dreamed up by scenarist Nunnally Johnson are contrived and far from fresh.

The screen version of Take Her, She’s Mine is an improvement over the Phoebe and Henry Ephron stage play from which it springs, even though several of the revisions and additions dreamed up by scenarist Nunnally Johnson are contrived and far from fresh.

The difficulty encountered by an older generation in comprehending the behavior of a younger generation is the business explored in this comedy. More specifically, one father’s (James Stewart) trials and tribulations when he packs his precious daughter (Sandra Dee) off to college and observes, in long distance dismay with an occasional globe-trot for closer inspection, her transition from adolescent to young woman.

An occasional dash of the Tammy whammy seeps into Dee’s characterization, but on the whole she’s effective. Audrey Meadows, a gifted comedienne, is wasted in the bland and barren role of Stewart’s wife. Robert Morley, though in the somewhat irrelevant role of a jaded Britisher, has some of the best lines in the film. Jerry Goldsmith contributes a whimsical score, especially helpful in a costume party sequence that needs all the help it can get.

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