It's been commented on by many critics that James Stewart has been the actor most partnered with top directors. His films with Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and Frank Capra have been studied over and over again. But it would surprise many to learn that after the eight he did with Anthony Mann, the second place finisher is Henry Koster with five films with James Stewart.The five films are Harvey, No Highway, Mr. Hobbs Goes On a Vacation, Dear Brigitte and Take Her She's Mine. And then they further subdivide as Stewart plays three types of character. He's the absent minded professor in No Highway and Dear Brigitte and the harassed father of girls in Mr. Hobbs and Take Her She's Mine. Both of which he plays to perfection. And of course there is Harvey in a class all by itself.Father is the last to know that his daughter has grown up to be a "dish." But that is in fact what Sandra Dee has done. Apparently just hanging around has put all the boys' hormones into an exponential overdrive. Poor Stewart is walking innocently into all kinds of grief trying to protect Dee's virtue. The California based Stewart's concern has taken him to New England and then to Paris.Some pretty funny things happen to poor Jimmy. But I think you'll like best the way his costume falls apart on a chartered boat in the Seine due to some bad advice that he gets from a fellow hotel guest Robert Morley. Still cracks me up 43 years after first seeing it.Audrey Meadows plays the patient wife and mother to Stewart and Dee borrowing a little from Alice Kramden. And I think today's audience will appreciate seeing Bob Denver essentially reprising his role as a Maynard G. Krebs type beatnik. Look for James Brolin in a tiny role as one of the hormonally charged college kids.Koster and Stewart work well together. Maybe at some point his partnership with Stewart will get some study as well.

Once again Stewart was the unlucky husband and father (this time an attorney) who must keep fun-loving, adventurous daughter Dee out of trouble… In college, the intrepid miss gets herself into the Bohemian lifestyle… When Stewart visits to check up on her, he ends up in trouble with the police himself, with the consequent embarrassment of unwanted publicity… Having been dismissed from college, Dee flies to Paris, where her father tracks her again… Dee has taken up with avant-garde painter Phillippe Forquet, who is as eccentric as he is handsome…Stewart winds up in a bizarre-looking costume at a bohemian ball, falls into the Seine, and gets arrested by the French police… Finally, a promise of relative stability is presaged when Dee and Forquet head to the altar… Back home (and greatly relieved to be there), Stewart realizes that his middle-aged domesticity with Anne (Audrey Meadows) will be short-lived… Their second daughter has reached an age to rival, and possibly surpass her older sister's tendency for unpredictable mischief-making…Meadows was just the woman to complement Stewart's hi-jinks… Morley and McGiver enriched the elements

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.