Los Angeles attorney Frank Michaelson is overprotective concerning his teenage daughter Mollie as she leaves home for college and to study art in Paris.

She wrote Abbott "staged it interestingly like a musical, with a lot of short vignettes that cut in and out very quickly, but it was essentially a string of recognition jokes calculated to get laughs from the theater party ladies who were its natural audience.

Johnson submitted a draft, but new studio head Darryl F. Zanuck demanded a rewrite with the last act set in Paris to lend the film more international appeal.

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote:Let's all be thankful that society is generally, if not entirely, free of such farcical types as the doting father played by James Stewart in 'Take Her, She's Mine.'

And let's hope the screen will not be burdened for too much longer with such drivel as is in this old-hat Hollywood picture ... For here is a prime example of the magnification of absurdity in a supposedly adult person in order to coax a few low-level laughs.

But here the old boy is downright dotty, and his daughter, played by Sandra Dee, is such a hideously vulgar young creature that she makes an average sensitive grown-up cringe.