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starring: James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol, Bill Mumydirected by: Henry Koster
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301798693
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301798694
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 1963
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: January 08, 1965
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Funny with fine cast.
Dear Brigitte is one of the funniest comedies from the 1960s, about a tone-deaf, color-blind boy genius with one interest: Brigitte Bardot. James Stewart plays professor Robert Leaf, a typical college professor (when speaking of college professors typical means liberal, but this was 40 years ago and labels change). Leaf teaches poetry, lives in a houseboat in San Francisco, vocally opposes nuclear power and progress in general. He has an original way to make the family stick together - family ... Read More
Rating:  - a mildly entertaining comedy
The best thing about this movie was Jimmy Stewart's acting and Brigitte Bardot's five minute or so cameo appearance. It is a rarity that you get a chance to see Bardot speak in English, i.e., without the dubbing.
Stewart plays the role of a poet and a somewhat unhapply professor at a large California University. His son played by Billy Mumy, the ubiquitous child actor of the 60's, is discovered to have extraordinary mathemetical skills. He also has an extraordinary crush on Bardot. What ... Read More
Rating: - Marvelous Fluff Starring Irrepressible Stewart
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Typical James Stewart, funny, heart warming, a MUST SEE!
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.
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