Take Her, She’s Mine

• 1963

The 1960s counterculture was starting to drift into movies aimed at squares. (See also Skidoo.) This comedy is about how college students in the early ’60s worried their parents as they began to participate in the counterculture. Sandra Dee sings Hava Nagila in this one—a scene that’s pretty fascinating in its own right, but our clip comes from this near-final scene.

Jimmy Stewart, her father, is in a meeting called by his social club to kick him out because of his strange behavior over the past months. He explains through the movie that it’s all because of his trying to keep his daughter out of trouble. And in this final scene, when the club is getting ready to render its judgment, it turns out, he’s not the only one.

Thanks to Angela David Beatty ’93 for the tip.