DEAR BRIGITTE (1965)

Directed by: Henry Koster

Based on the novel "Erasmus with Freckles" by: John Haase

Starring: James Stewart, Bill Mumy, Glynis Johns, Ed Wynn, Fabian, Cindy Carol, John Williams, Jack Kruschen, Charles Robinson, Howard Freeman, Jane Wald, Gene O'Donnell, Orville Sherman, Maida Severn, Pitt Herbert, Adair Jameson, Marcel de la Brosse, William Fawcett, Joseph Hoover, Percy Helton, Dick Lane, Susanne Cramer, James Brolin, William Henry, Ted Mapes, Harry Fleer, Brigitte Bardot

100 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Leaf and his wife, Vina are devoted to the arts and guide their children, Penny and Erasmus towards the same path. Robert is dismayed to discover that Erasmus is tone-deaf and colorblind, but also a math prodigy. When he receives unwanted media attention, his parents send him to a psychiatrist in hopes of giving him balance. Erasmus admits to the psychiatrist that he is in love with Brigitte Bardot, to whom he writes love letters despite only being eight years old. Penny and her friends pay Erasmus to do their math homework so that he can buy stamps to mail his letters. Robert also learns that Erasmus has used his skills to calculate bets for an underground campus betting ring run by Penny's boyfriend, Ken Taylor. When Robert is accused of complicity in the betting ring, he angrily quits. He and Erasmus later encounter Dr. Peregrine Upjohn, an admirer of Robert's work, who convinces them to start a foundation to fund liberal arts scholarships. Previously against Erasmus using his skills to place bets, his parents now relent as they judge the foundation to be a cause worthy of funding. Erasmus, however, is still obsessed with Brigitte.

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