Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.
Acting
Stewart's magnificent slow-burn paternal panic
Costume
Fabian's hair defying physics AND fashion
Writing
Bil Keane comic strip charm translated to film
Director
Henry Koster
James Stewart
Professor Robert Leaf
Fabian
Kenneth 'Kenny' Taylor
Glynis Johns
Vina Leaf
Cindy Carol
Pandora 'Panny' Leaf
Bill Mumy
Erasmus 'Ras' Leaf
John Williams
Peregrine Upjohn
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot
Jack Kruschen
Doctor Volker
Charles Robinson
George
Howard Freeman
Dean Sawyer
James Brolin
Student at Leaf Rally
Ed Wynn
The Captain
Paula Lane
Eugenia Clove
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Bil Keane's (Family Circus) unpublished novel, explaining the gentle comic-strip pacing and domestic absurdity.
Brigitte Bardot appears only in photos and voice—she never filmed a scene, making this cinema's most expensive cameo by absence.
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