Cinema: Erasmus Goes to Paris

Dear Brigitte is a comedy about an eight-year-old mathematical genius.

He is sexually precocious.

He has a flaming passion for Brigitte Bardot.

He is played by Billy Mumy. Call him Erasmus, or "Razz," for short.

See his freckles? Freckles are cute.

Erasmus lives with his Daddy (James Stewart), his Mommy (Glynis Johns) and his sister on a quaint houseboat.

Do you like houseboats?

Daddy is a poet who teaches at the university. He hates Science because The Arts are more human. He doesn't want his boy to be a mathematical genius.

Erasmus can't help it, so he starts...

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