The day camp is over, Susan goes to Boston to meet their mother and grandparents and Sharon goes to California to meet their father.Īfter arriving at their father's house, Sharon in Disguise learns from Verbena the housekeeper that Mitch met a beautiful and much younger woman named Vicky Robinson (Joanna Barnes), a child-hating golddigger. Susan gives Sharon a matching haircut, and they take a crash course in getting to know each other and learning how to be each other. The twins decide to switch places to meet and get to know the parents they never had and bring them back together by recreating their first date. Their parents, Mitchell 'Mitch' Evers (Brian Keith) and Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick (Maureen O'Hara) divorced and each took one of them - their mother took Sharon, and their father took Susan. They start speaking to each other and eventually discover they are long-lost identical twin sisters. Miss Inch punishes the girls by bringing them to the isolated 'Serendipity' cabin and they eat all their meals at the 'Isolation Table' until camp is over. Their lookalike appearances initially causes resentment and a rivalry in which they continually pull pranks on each other, ultimately causing a fight that ruins a dance with a neighboring boys camp.

Teenagers Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers (Hayley Mills in a dual role) meet at Miss Inch's Summer Camp for Girls. The Parent Trap was Hayley Mills's second film in the series of six for Disney. The Parent Trap was nominated for two Academy Awards, was broadcast on television, saw three television sequels, was remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan, and has been released on digital stereo LaserDisc format in 1986 as well as VHS and DVD in 2002. The screenplay by the film's director David Swift was based upon the 1949 book Lottie and Lisa (German: Das Doppelte Lottchen) by Erich Kästner.

The Parent Trap is a story about separated teenage twins on a quest to reunite their divorced parents. It stars Hayley Mills (in a dual role), Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. The Parent Trap is a 1961 Walt Disney Technicolor romantic comedy film directed by David Swift.

Theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown For the 1998 remake film, see The Parent Trap (1998 film). This article is about the original 1961 film.

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