Dear Brigitte
- James Stewart: Professor Robert Leaf
- Bill Mumy: Erasmus as Billy Mumy
- Glynis Johns: Vina
- Cindy Carol: Pandora
- Fabian: Kenneth
- Brigitte Bardot: Brigitte Bardot
- John Williams: Peregrine Upjohn
- Jack Kruschen: Dr. Volker
- Charles Robinson: George
- Howard Freeman: Dean Sawyer
- Jane Forest: Terry
- Alice Pearce: Unemployment mediator
- Jesse White: Argyle
- Gene O'Donnell: Lt. Rink
- Orville Sherman: From Schlogg
- Maida Severn: Teacher
- Pitt Herbert: Bank Teller
- Adair Jameson: saleswoman
- Marcel de la Brosse: Taxi driver
- Ed Wynn: Captain, narrator
Mistress Brigitte is an American comedy by Henry Koster from the year 1965. It was created based on the novel by John Haase Erasmus with Freckles, who was published in 1963.
Content
Robert Leaf is an absent-minded professor of literature. Every technological development is it a horror and a potential threat to the humanities. At regular intervals, it is enough to protest the conditions at his institute termination a, but he can not go through: he is revered by his students, in his little bay of San Francisco, where he and his wife, daughter and son Erasmus lives on a houseboat, he is known and loved, and last but not least, he could not afford it financially also, suddenly not having any work.
The nightly private concerts will soon be clear that the eight-year Erasmus is completely tone deaf. The father swung in the education of the son on at times, but it quickly becomes evident that Erasmus is colorblind. And before Robert Leaf might get the idea to give the son dancing classes, it turns out that Erasmus is an absolute mathematical genius. The press pounces on the family, while Robert Leaf does not want other than to bring these stricken from the way boys back on the right musical and literary path. Erasmus ' sister Pandora, known to all as Penny, uses the talent of the boy and let him calculate the result of horse betting. And while the daughter so earned their first money, Robert announces again his professor job and takes it not then back. The money goes running low and, although Robert is horrified when he hears that little boy casually takes money by betting, he uses the following initial scruples in order to build a foundation together with the literary scholar Peregrine Upjohn. The poor should enable potential humanities scholars studying.
Nevertheless, the father worries plague: Is his boy normal? He often seems absent and withdrawn, as would make him his sudden popularity to work. A psychiatrist takes Erasmus ' and soon gets out that the boy is in love. Erasmus crush on Brigitte Bardot and sends her every night long love letters to France. One day he receives a letter from the actress, who invites him to France. Since Erasmus now wants predict no more horse betting, if he is not allowed to visit Brigitte Bardot, Robert agrees and they both fly to France, where they meet Brigitte Bardot and Erasmus receives a gift from her even a small dog.
Back in San Francisco Erasmus from the meeting with Brigitte Bardot is still so dazed that he unconsciously calls wrong winner of the horse race. While Robert all his property is in the bet to stabilize finally this last bet the assets of the Foundation, Peregrine plans to take the assets secretly up and vanish with his mistress. Although Erasmus is sure to have typed wrong and everyone panics, the horse called Erasmus wins. Peregrine is arrested while trying to collect the money at the counter and secretly to disappear from tax inspectors. The Robert rushed to the scene again so can take the money per se, as it is a tax- free facility at the Foundation. At the end of the Leafs play with Peregrine together on board the houseboat music, with Peregrine proves nor unmusical as Erasmus.
Production
After the comedies Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation from 1962 and in a love one from 1963 was mistress Brigitte the third James Stewart's Comedy in a short time, which was created under Henry Koster for 20th Century Fox. Like the two previous comedies turned mistress Brigitte also to Stewart as a father who must cope with the antics of his children. While the first two films in particular on child stars of the time, like Sandra Dee and Fabian built, they took for lovers Brigitte the French star Brigitte Bardot under contract. However, the actress refused to shoot in the U.S., so the film crew for the short sequence with her had to travel to Paris.
The premiere took place on 8 January 1965. In West Germany the film was shown in theaters on April 23, 1965.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film called mistress Brigitte as " unpretentious and good-natured U.S. family comedy ," while other critics in the film an "embarrassing harmless ... and heart-warming ... ' comedy ... " saw. Was criticized, among other things, that "you can not even here the influence of the family comedy Fred MacMurrays by Walt Disney in the fifties soluble [t ] e ... "