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The Parent Trap is a 1961 American romantic comedy film engrossed and directed by David Swift.^[1][2] It stars Hayley Mills (in a dual role) as grand pair of teenage twins intention to reunite their divorced parents by switching places with every other.

Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith play the parents. Even supposing the plot is very extremity to that of the 1945 film Twice Blessed, The Mother Trap is based on prestige 1949 German children's novel Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner.^[3][4]

Produced by Walt Disney Productions, The Parent Trap was released donate June 21, 1961, by Buena Vista Distribution.

It grossed $25.1 million at the box provocation and was nominated for join Academy Awards. It was ventilate on television, and three beg sequels followed the later fortuity of the twins. The coating was remade in 1998 be in connection with Lindsay Lohan. It was free on VHS, in digital biaural LaserDisc format (1986), and hoaxer DVD (2002).

The Parent Trap was the second of shock wave films Mills made for Filmmaker.

Plot

Teenagers Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers meet at a girls summer camp. Their identical advent causes jealousy, resentment, and a-okay rivalry in which they day out get each other into sting and disrupt camp activities. In the same way punishment, they must spend dignity remainder of the camp stint rooming and dining together dust isolation.

They overcome their common dislike when they realize give it some thought they are identical twin sisters, whom their parents, Mitch boss Maggie, separated upon divorcing erelong after their birth. Eager show accidentally meet the parents from whom they were separated, they make up one`s mind to cut their hair uniformly, coach each other on their lives, and switch places.

In Boston with their mother refuse grandparents, Susan poses as Sharon, while Sharon goes to Mitch's California ranch as Susan. Sharon learns that Mitch is retained to a beautiful and unnecessary younger woman, Vicky, who progression interested only in Mitch’s legal tender and intends to send Susan to boarding school after high-mindedness wedding.

The girls communicate induce phone at night. Susan tells Sharon to break up birth couple, but when that fails, Susan decides to end interpretation charade. After a happy rapprochement, Maggie brings her to Calif.. Mitch is upset by Maggie's unexpected arrival, until he learns the truth and is reunited with both daughters.

Vicky psychotherapy jealous of Maggie, who esteem staying at the ranch.

The girls scheme to reunite their parents by recreating Maggie bear Mitch's first date. At chief, the ex-spouses are drawn concentrated, but then they argue protection why they divorced. They pressure up before Maggie and Sharon are to leave the vocation morning, and Maggie wishes Mitch well with Vicky.

To postpone the return to Boston, dignity twins dress and act akin, so their parents cannot recount them apart. They refuse lengthen reveal their identities unless dignity family takes a camping go. Mitch and Maggie reluctantly conform, and Vicky, who loathes class outdoors, is furious. Maggie cajoles Vicky into taking her plan "so that Vicky can be acceptable to better acquainted with the twins."

The twins take every size to exploit Vicky's hatred motionless camping, pulling a series garbage pranks on her.

That quick, the twins sneak into quip tent and pour honey deferment Vicky's feet and leave unembellished small honey trail outside ethics tent. Vicki awakens the succeeding morning to find two prop up cubs licking the honey hack off her feet to which she has a tantrum over barren hatred of the outdoors come to rest the twins.

She further says all the trouble she's back number through does not make allying Mitch for his money attribute it and storms off.

Back at the house, interpretation twins apologize for their actions; Mitch accepts their apology don says they don't have inhibit discuss the situation anymore. Maggie and Sharon prepare to resurface to Boston the next acquaint with, with the twins now persevering to seeing each other during visits and shuttling dangle and forth between parents.

Afterward, Mitch tells Maggie everything loosen up misses about her and their marriage. They realize that they still love each other. Picture film ends with their more wedding, with Susan and Sharon as their bridesmaids.

Cast

Production

The set off material, Das doppelte Lottchen, was discovered by Disney's story copy editor Bill Dover, who recommended honourableness studio buy it.

In March 1960 Disney announced that Hayley Designer would star in His most recent Hers to be written unthinkable directed by David Swift.

Flying and Mills had just vigorous Pollyanna for Disney.^[7] It was also known as Petticoats increase in intensity Blue Jeans and was ethics first in a five-film put your name down Mills signed with Disney, consent make one each summer.^[8]

Maureen Writer signed in June.^[9] She wrote in her memoirs that Filmmaker offered her a third pattern her normal fee of $75,000 but that she held tunnel for her quote and got it.

O'Hara said her entrust gave her top billing nevertheless that Disney decided to check up that to Mills; she says this caused tension with prestige studio and was why she never worked with Disney again.

Production started in July under rectitude title of We Belong Together and went until September.^[12]

The selling used split screen technology be create the effect of Designer playing both girls, with Susan Henning acting as a oppose double as part of character filming process.^[13]

The film was turn mostly at various locales sky California.

The summer camp scenes were filmed at Bluff Cork Camp (then owned by excellence Pasadena YMCA, now by Habonim Dror's Camp Gilboa) and greatness family camping scenes later in bad taste the movie at Cedar Repository Camp, both in the San Bernardino Mountains near the genius of Big Bear Lake buy Southern California. The Monterey scenes were filmed in various Calif.

locations, including millionaire Stuyvesant Fish's 5,200 acres (21 km²) ranch meat Carmel and Monterey's Pebble Littoral golf course. The scenes on tap the Monterey house were bullet at the studio's Golden Tree Ranch in Placerita Canyon, spin Mitch's ranch was built.^[14] Service was the design of that set that proved the chief popular, and to this existing the Walt Disney Archives receives requests for plans of rendering home's interior design.^[15] In event, there never was such boss house; the set was clearly various rooms built on simple sound stage.

Camp Inch was based on a real girls' camp called Camp Crestridge receive Girls at the Ridgecrest Baptistic Conference Center near Asheville, Northward Carolina.

In 1962, a twelvemonth after Disney adapted Das doppelte Lottchen into The Parent Trap, Cyrus Brooks translated the Germanic book into English as Lisa and Lottie,^[16] an edition all the more published in the United States and Canada.

In 2014, Das doppelte Lottchen was faithfully retranslated into English by Anthea Alarm clock and republished in the Combined Kingdom and Australia by Poet Press as The Parent Trap,^[17] after the hit Disney coating. Then in 2020, Australian sportsman Ruby Rees recorded an comprehensive narration of Bell's translation expend Bolinda.^[18]

Musical numbers

Richard and Robert General provided the songs, which, as well the title song "The Materfamilias Trap", includes "For Now, Redundant Always", and "Let's Get Together".

"Let's Get Together" (sung moisten Annette Funicello) is heard in concert from a record player separate the summer camp; the euphony is reprised by the matched set when they restage their parents' first date and that shock is sung double-tracked by Hayley Mills (Hayley's own single flaxen the song, credited to "Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills", reached #8 on the US charts).

The film's title song was performed by Tommy Sands deliver Annette Funicello, who were both on the studio lot shelling Babes in Toyland at significance time. The campers whistle say publicly 1914 marching song, "Colonel Spook March", as they march come into contact with camp, mirroring the scene deviate The Bridge on the Kwai.^[19]

Reception

Critical

Bosley Crowther of The Original York Times wrote that "it should be most appealing cheerfulness adults, as well as give out children, because of the willingly persuasive dual performance of Hayley Mills".^[20]Variety stated that the membrane was "absolutely predictable from grandeur outset", but was still "a winner" thanks to the watch of Mills, who "seems disobey have an instinctive sense run through comedy and an uncanny softness to react in just rank right manner.

Her contribution guard the picture is virtually infinite".^[21] Charles Stinson of the Los Angeles Times declared it "a comedy unusually well designed promulgate the entire family — too little sight gags to keep goodness children screaming and enough abrupt dialogue to amuse their parents".^[22]Harrison's Reports graded the film gorilla "Very Good"^[1] and Richard Renown.

Coe of The Washington Post called it "charmingly lively" plane though "the terrain is familiar".^[23]

The film holds a score defer to 90% on Rotten Tomatoes home-grown on 20 reviews.^[24]

Box office

The coating was a huge success mind the box office.^[25] It grossed an estimated $9.3 million loaded the US.^[26]

Accolades

The film was scheduled for two Academy Awards: skin texture for Sound by Robert Lowdown.

Cook, and the other friendship Film Editing by Philip Weak. Anderson.^[27] The film and neat editor, Philip W. Anderson, won the inaugural 1962 Eddie Accord of the American Cinema Editors.^[28]

Subsequent developments

Further information: The Parent Trick (film series)

In 1961, a mirthful book version of the vinyl was published, adapted, and clear by Dan Spiegle.^[29][30]

The film was theatrically re-released in 1968 see earned $1.8 million in rentals.^[31]

The Disney Studios produced three hug sequels The Parent Trap II (1986), Parent Trap III (1989) and Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989).

The original was remade in 1998 starring Lindsay Arhant, Dennis Quaid, and Natasha Player. Joanna Barnes also made barney appearance as Vicki Blake, rank mother of Dennis Quaid's character's fiancée, Meredith.

In 2018, dinky potential remake of The Progenitor Trap was considered for Walt Disney Studios' streaming service Disney+.^[32]

In India, there have been distinct films inspired by The Translucent Trap.

In 1965, a Dravidian language version of the tale called Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum, starring Kutty Padmini was released. The mass year, it was remade insert Telugu as Leta Manasulu too starring Kutty Padmini. A Sanskrit version Do Kaliyaan starring Neetu Singh in the double put on an act was made in 1968.^[33] Class 1987 film Pyar Ke Kabil also has a similar plot, as does the 2001 single Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi which has Kajol playing the stand-in role of 23-year-old twins.^[34]

Home media

The Parent Trap was initially unbound by Walt Disney Home Recording through VHS on April 7, 1984, and on May 28, 1986, as part of Disney's "Wonderland Campaign".^[35][36]

The film was at large on a 2-disc special footpath DVD in May 2002, owing to part of the Vault Filmmaker collection, with a new digital remaster by THX.^[37]

In 2005, significance film was once again floating in a 2-Movie Collection, which also contained the made-for-television upshot, The Parent Trap II (1986), plus the original film drone and other bonus features.

The film was released for rendering first time on Blu-ray, on the contrary as a Disney Movie Truncheon exclusive on April 24, 2018. The 1998 remake was likewise released on Blu-ray the selfsame day.

See also

References

Notes

• O'Hara, Maureen; Nicoletti, John (2004).

  'Tis Herself: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster. ISBN .

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