Details

Release year: 1963

Storyline

A father's attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal.

Top credits

Directors

Henry Koster

Writers

Cast

James Stewart — Frank Michaelson
Sandra Dee — Mollie Michaelson
Audrey Meadows — Anne Michaelson
Robert Morley — Mr. Pope-Jones

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Did you know

• The film was based on the Broadway play of the same name by Henry Ephron and his wife and partner Phoebe Ephron, who were inspired by their real-life correspondence with their college-age daughter, the eventual novelist, screenwriter and film director Nora Ephron.

• All of Jim Nabors' dialog was overdubbed by another actor's voice.

• During the costume party on the boat, many women are dressed as Cleopatra. Twentieth Century Fox released the movie Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor later in 1963. Sandra's Dee's hair is styled exactly like Elizabeth Taylor's.