The Parent Trap (1961) on Netflix
Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers are rivals at summer camp until they learn they are identical twins, parted by their parents' divorce. They trade places to meet the parent each never knew.
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Plot summary
Identical faces cause jealousy and resentment when Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers meet at a girls' summer camp, and the two continually get each other into trouble. Their punishment keeps the two of them together, away from the other campers. Comparing notes, they work out that they are twin sisters, split up when their parents, Maggie and Mitch, divorced soon after they were born, and that each has grown up with one parent and never met the other. They cut their hair the same way, swap stories and change places: Sharon travels to California as Susan, to Mitch's ranch, while Susan goes to Boston as Sharon. There Sharon learns that Mitch is engaged to Vicky Robinson, a younger woman who intends to send her away to boarding school once she is married.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Parent Trap (1961)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Maureen O'Hara was offered $25,000 to play Maggie McKendrick but held out for her $75,000 quote and got it. When Disney gave Hayley Mills top billing ahead of her, the tension meant O'Hara never worked with Disney again.
- The McKendrick family's Monterey house was never real: it was rooms built on a sound stage at Disney's Golden Oak Ranch, yet the Walt Disney Archives still receives requests for plans of its interior design.
- To show Hayley Mills playing both twins without confusing audiences, the production used split screen technology and Susan Henning as a body double during filming.
- The film's Camp Inch was based on a real girls' camp, Camp Crestridge for Girls, at the Ridgecrest Baptist Conference Center near Asheville, North Carolina.
- The film and its editor Philip W. Anderson won the inaugural 1962 Eddie Award of the American Cinema Editors.
- Hayley Mills's double-tracked version of "Let's Get Together" was released as a single credited to "Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills" and reached No. 8 on the US charts.
