Monica Moran Movies
Monica Moran was the daughter of six-time Oscar-nominated actress Thelma Ritter and her husband, advertising executive Joseph Moran. Born in 1940 -- seven years before her mother made her first screen appearance -- Monica Moran was raised in Queens, NY, and aspired to an acting career from an early age, appearing in the television series I Remember Mama when she was nine, and in summer stock as soon as she was old enough; she also had a regular role on Young Doctor Malone at age 17. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and made her screen debut in the James Stewart/Sandra Dee generation-gap comedy Take Her, She's Mine, wearing a black wig and playing a guitar-playing beatnik girl living in Paris. She hated the her performance, but 20th Century Fox television liked it enough to offer her one of three leading roles in a pilot for a proposed series called "Three on an Island." Working with comely Pamela Tiffin and statuesque Julie Newmar, Moran got most of the comedy on the proposed series, a variation on How to Marry a Millionaire that somehow failed to sell. She subsequently turned to the stage and enjoyed a starring role in Any Wednesday. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide- 1963
In this generation gap movie of the early 1960s, Sandra Dee is Mollie Michaelson, a teenage rebel enamored with long-haired hippies and radical anti-nuclear political causes. Her involvement in such activities sends her ultra-conservative father Frank (James Stewart) into a tizzy. His reassuring wife is played by Audrey Meadows. Frank's furor deepens when Mollie is sent to Paris on an art scholarship. Back at home, Frank picks up a popular magazine and finds that his daughter has posed on the cover for a radical artist, Henri Bonnet (Philippe Forquet). He pursues her to save her from further degradation, but he ends up in a café in the wrong part of Paris just as it is raided by police. They arrest him on trumped-up and erroneous charges, and he struggles to prove that he's not guilty. This film was based on a play by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Stewart, Sandra Dee, (more)
