Take Her, She's Mine

It is a dull thud of a movie that I'm unable to sit through. Stewart was too old and Sandra Dee never learned to act. Audrey Meadows was a delight but lost in the mess.

The stage play gave the great Elizabeth Ashley her start on Broadway.

This is the kind of thread title that can lead one down a rabbit hole. From Wikipedia: The film was based on a popular play with Art Carney. It was written by Henry and Phoebe Ephron based on Phoebe's correspondence with their daughter Nora when the latter was at college. They wrote the script in six weeks and sent it to their agent. Both Josh Logan and Hal Prince wanted to produce it; the Ephrons decided to go with Prince as Logan wanted big stars.

The character of Mollie, played by Elizabeth Ashley on Broadway and in the film by Sandra Dee, was based on the then 22-year-old Nora Ephron. Ashley's performance won her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play and served as the launchpad for her career.

I didn't know Nora's parents were playwrights... I had never heard of the play... Elizabeth won a Tony for this? Wow... how interesting that a play none of us really know could be so well-received that it garners a Tony for a young actress. For some reason, I have always wished I saw Art Carney on stage. Was this before or after The Odd Couple?

You forgot to mention the absolutely dreamy French actor Phillip Fouquet.....

They played this in heavy rotation on the Fox Movie Channel. A much better Jimmy Stewart movie from the same era, also in heavy rotation on that channel is "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation."

Gilligan

r3, you mean Phillipe Forquet Viscount de Dorne.