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The Parent Trap (1961)

 -  Family | Comedy | Romance  -  21 June 1961 (USA)
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Teenage twin girls swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

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Maggie McKendrick
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Charles McKendrick (as Charlie Ruggles)
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Rev. Dr. Mosby
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Louise McKendrick
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Miss Inch (as Ruth Mc Devitt)
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Edna Robinson
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Frank De Vol ...
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Storyline

Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them. Written by Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>

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Dedicated To The Proposition That Teenagers and Parents Are Created Equally Hilarious! See more »

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Family | Comedy | Romance

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21 June 1961 (USA)  »

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Abba Mitares  »

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(RCA Sound Recording)| (5.1 surround) (DVD Release)

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1.85 : 1
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Trivia

For the scene where Maureen O'Hara and Charles Ruggles are speaking in the bedroom, Ruggles didn't have any place to put the ashes of his cigarette so, on his own, he decided to put them in his hand. See more »

Goofs

In the isolation cabin while the twins are getting acquainted: Susan's shoes change from white sneakers to blue flats (that Sharon had been wearing). See more »

Quotes

Charles McKendrick: Louise, for once I'm putting my foot down. Now let them alone!
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Connections

Remade as Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum (1965) See more »

Soundtracks

"For Now for Always"
(1961)
Written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Performed by Maureen O'Hara (uncredited)
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One of my all time favorites!!!
19 September 2004 | by (Denver, Colo.) – See all my reviews

I love the movie, always have. But then, why wouldn't I? Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara, and Hayley Mills? Excellent cast. My parents took me to see this movie when I was a kid -- [I was born in 1955] so I wasn't too old and I totally loved it. I own the VHS and will probably have to buy the DVD, if I can find it.

Joanna Barnes is the woman you love to hate -- god wasn't she just wicked and terrible in this movie? You just hate her!!! Calling Hayley

  • pet, in that exaggerated way. UGH!


Brian Keith, god I just loved this man! Loved him in Family Affair too! Always such a good actor. [Some other favorites; Those Calloways, The Pleasure Seekers, Nevada Smith, and especially, With Six you get Eggroll.] Maureen O'Hara, what a wonderful actress. I loved her in this movie, but then love her in any and everything she's done really [some other favorites are; McLintock! and Spencer's Mountain].

Cute, cute movie.


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