Product Details

• Actors: James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol, Bill Mumy
• Directors: Henry Koster
• Writers: Hal Kanter, John Haase, Nunnally Johnson
• Producers: Henry Koster, Fred Kohlmar
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301798694
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,565 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Prof. Robert Leaf (James Stewart), who teaches at a northern California college, wants his 9-year-old son, Erasmus (Billy Mumy), to follow in his footsteps as poet and lover of fine arts. Erasmus, unfortunately, is tone-deaf and color blind, but he's a whiz at math and can even outthink a supercomputer. Initially a disappointment to the old man, Erasmus eventually saves the day--and Dad's neck--when he picks a longshot winner at the race track. Dad repays the favor by taking Erasmus to meet his idol, none other than French sexpot Brigitte Bardot.

The third of Stewart's collaborations with director Henry Koster (after Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation and Take Her, She's Mine), this improbable mix of screwball comedy and preadolescent angst features Stewart at his scattered, discombobulated best. He's especially good at suggesting the academic's inability to cope out of his element. Prof. Leaf's victory comes from his realization that Erasmus is wonderful precisely because he doesn't mirror Dad's passions. --Glenn Lovell

Product Description

Dear Brigitte (1965) [VHS] [VHS Tape] (1965) James Stewart; Fabian; Glynis Johns

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Typical James Stewart, funny, heart warming, a MUST SEE!, January 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dear Brigitte [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Everything you love about James Stewart and more. Glynnis O'Connor is wonderful with James Stewart and Billy Mumy is the bright eyed innocence we all had once upon a time... Don't miss it. Watch with your family. It will touch one and all.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Marvelous Fluff Starring Irrepressible Stewart, December 5, 2000

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Bruce Lee Pullen (Butler, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dear Brigitte [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Henry Koster's (Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation) Dear Brigitte (1965) is an absolutely charming family chronicle of an acclaimed poet Professor Robert Leaf's (James Stewart) personal, family, and professional difficulties once he learns that his youngest son has turned out to be a mathematical prodigy unbeknownst to him. Devastated by the realization that his son has developed talents in the dreaded sciences and failed miserably in his endeavors in playing the Tuba (he's tone deaf) and painting pictures (he's color blind), Professor Leaf attempts to halt all of the publicity of his son's newly discovered gifts, pointlessly seeks to find another of his son's gifts in the area he wants him to, and desperately tries to find a way to cope with son's new found celebrity. Ironically at the same time, Stewart's young son is secretly writing love letters to French actress Brigitte Bardot.

However irrelevant and inane this plot may sound to you, Dear Brigitte delivers with winning performances from John Williams, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol, Cahrled Robinson, Jack Kruschen, and Bill Mummy, inspired mixtures of slapstick and situational humor, highly sophisticated banter, and nicely matured moral issues tightly packed into one mightily charming whopper of a family film.

Definitely not to be missed, even when you're thirty.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Despite assured performances, it all gets a bit icky at times..., February 1, 2009

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Roberto Frangie "Robert" (Leon, Gto. Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dear Brigitte [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The film's main scheme has professor Stewart granting his mathematical-genius eight-year-old's fervent wish to meet Brigitte Bardot (then at the height of her sex appeal). The two go to Paris, and young Erasmus (Billy Mumy) is kissed by Bardot and given a puppy...

Prior to this, the boy's mathematical skills have been misappropriated by everyone, from his sister's boyfriend (Fabian), who needs he1p with homework, to a British con man (John Williams), who illegally wins gambling bets to alleged1y finance a humanitarian arts foundation... Fabian also comes up with another idea for Erasmus to pick racetrack horses...

Stewart is a poetic, whimsical college professor who wants the simple life with his wife on a rather primitive, decaying Mississippi riverboat home... Stewart's accordion skills are brought to life, even if briefly, as he insists that the entire family take up musical instruments... But the pre-teen son is tone deaf, and when he takes up painting he turns out to have no eye for color either... The retarded discovery that he is a math prodigy brings more trouble than satisfaction, as the perplexed Stewart sadly discovers...

Glynis Johns, who had been on the point of marrying Stewart in "No Highway in the Sky" back in 1951, was at last Stewart's wife in the film...

Bardot provided some diversion for the French press when she pronounced Stewart, then 57, "a gentleman with ageless sex appeal, enormous charm."