Vicky is furious, and Maggie decides to trick Vicky, who hates the great outdoors, into taking her place so it will give her a chance to get to know the girls.ĭuring the trip, the twins take every opportunity to pull pranks on Vicky. The twins dress alike so their parents can't tell them apart, and decide to only reveal their identities after returning home from a family camping trip. Susan and Sharon then try to decide what to do next to delay their return to Boston. Unfortunately, Mitch and Maggie have another fight, and she reminds him that she and Sharon are leaving the next morning, and she wishes him the best of everything with Vicky. That night, the twins recreate their first date, along with entertainment. Vicky is furious that Mitch lied to her - he didn't have one daughter, he had twins! She becomes even more upset that Maggie is spending the night in his house. After Maggie and Susan fly to California, Mitch is shocked and furious at Maggie's unexpected arrival until he learns the truth about the twins switching places, and is overjoyed to see Sharon again.
Maggie is overjoyed, along with their grandmother, and their grandfather has Maggie update her clothes and hairstyle before seeing Mitch again. The next morning, with their grandfather's help, Susan tells Maggie and their grandmother the truth about the switch. They sit on the stairs and talk about the switch. Their grandfather is shocked, and he hangs up the phone, and sits on the stairs and confronts Susan. Susan is shocked and she tells Sharon she'll reveal the truth about the switch in the morning. Sharon tells Susan that Mitch wants to marry Vicky. Sharon calls Susan again, but their grandfather is in the hallway when the phone rings. When Vicky tries to talk to her, she denies that she only wants to marry her father for his money. The next day, Mitch tells Sharon in Disguise he wants to marry Vicky, and she throws a fit. Susan also tells Sharon she wants to spend more time with their mother, because she hardly got to know her and won't "give her up," and hangs up the phone. Susan tells her to "bust it up" by following their father wherever he goes and to "submarine" Vicky. Sharon calls Susan and tells her about Vicky, and she tells her that she's dangerous. Vicky tells her mother, Edna that Sharon in Disguise is "a conniving, vicious, little two-faced brat," and she even tells her that she plans to send her off to a boarding school in Switzerland. 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.