The Parent Trap (film series) The twins were portrayed by Lindsay Lohan. "The Parent Trap" is a film directed by David Swift for Walt Disney Pictures released in 1961. It was based on the book "Das Doppelte Lottchen" written by Erich Kästner. The film stars Hayley Mills who plays the roles of the thirteen-year-old twin girls, Sharon and Susan. Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith play the twins’ parents, Maggie and Mitch. The film is about the two girls who meet at a summer camp as strangers and realize that they are identical twins. They switch places so that each can meet the parent they don't
The Parent Trap (song) The Parent Trap (song) "The Parent Trap" was the title song from the 1961 Disney film, "The Parent Trap". It was sung by teen idols, Annette Funicello and Tommy Sands and it was written by the songwriting brother team of Robert and Richard Sherman. According to the Sherman Brothers, they raised a concern with Walt Disney when they were given the assignment to write this song. The songwriters believed that it would prove difficult to enunciate the two letter "t"s, one immediately following the other (i.e. "Paren"T T"rap" would prove difficult to say quickly.) Nevertheless, Disney wanted to keep the