Dear Brigitte is a 1965 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope family comedy film adapted from the 1963 John Haase novel Erasmus with Freckles.

Robert Leaf is an American college professor, who won a Pulitzer for poetry and prizes the arts.

Robert and his wife Vina are dedicated to the arts and prompt their children Pandora and Erasmus to develop artistic skills.

Professor Leaf, in particular, is dismayed to discover that eight-year-old Erasmus is tone-deaf and colorblind, for he cannot share the family's artistic pursuits.

Eighteen-year-old Pandora and her friends pay Erasmus to do their math homework (he uses the money for airmail stamps to send his letters to Brigitte).

When paid, Erasmus shows his parents that he calculates winners by reading daily racetrack newspaper entries; Panny reveals that he spends his earnings on stamps.

During their talk, students march to the houseboat, demanding that the Professor return to work; he accepts and announces the Foundation.

Conferring, the Leafs decide that it is not unethical to ask Erasmus if they can use his talent to raise funds for such a good cause.

While falling asleep one night, he says, "Fromage", leading the adults to think that he is picking the long shot "French Cheese" in the sixth race.

The press overhears the exchange and asks for a photo op of the Professor, the Dean and the Foundation's new endowment.

[3] There was some talk that Disney would option the film rights and cast Bing Crosby in the lead role.

"[7] Although Nunnally Johnson wrote early drafts of the film, Hal Kanter was brought in to work on it, and he gets sole screen credit.

Kanter says that it was Henry Koster's idea to introduce a captain, played by Ed Wynn, to act as a Greek chorus.

[12] Johnson later said, "Henry was an old-fashioned fellow, and If it hadn't have been for the fact that Jimmie [sic] Stewart was the leading man in the pictures, he would have expired much earlier than he did.

[16] There was some doubt that Bardot would appear in the film, but she relented and her scenes were shot in three days in Paris.