The Parent Trap

So that's why you have connections there.

He did over 100, uh, movie posters, uh, over his career, including Mary Poppins, The Parent Trap, Pete's Dragon, Fox and the Hound.

Uh, but he's most famous for his portrait of Walt Disney used for a commemorative sta- stamp-

Pff

I mean, he did The Trap.

Yeah [laughs].

He did The Parent Trap.

Parent Trap.

secret child grew up to be Brian Keith, who's a very famous actor.

He was the dad in the original 1961 Parent Trap movies.

Oh, my God.

I love the original Parent Trap.

He's

the dad in it.

be a very famous actor.

Yes, that is

Anyway, they seem to love her, and she loves them, and has for a long time.

As some of you listening may remember, uh, she even mentioned in her Golden Globes acceptance speech for The Wife, seeing the old Disney films and thinking upon seeing those that she wanted to be an actress, and seeing Hayley Mills in movies like Pollyanna and The Parent Trap.

So that really inspired her, and it's kind of nice that she was able to chart her own little journey with Disney all these decades later.

It's a real full circle kinda moment.

...

I remember watching Parent, I remember watching Parent Trap as a child and being really confused.

Like, why do you want them back together?

[laughs]

Wait, wait, but I also have to interrupt-

Mm-hmm

... because your version of Parent Trap and her throwing a hairdryer is not the same version of Parent Trap that Jenny and I are talking about.

Boy, that's true.

Okay, so she's playing like...

Oh, Parent Trap, yes.

Hayley Mills.

Mills, yeah.

She was in The Parent Trap, and she was also in Pollyanna.

So those of you who are Christian mothers probably know who this lady is, but she was a big thing back in the day.

She

And, yeah, it does look like it was shot on location, so you could really feel that Greek summer sun beaming down there, lots of sweat and sun hats and hot, hot days and even hotter night

that's great you can't go wrong with hayley mills either i just love everything from from pollyanna to the parent trap to that darn cat um yeah the moon what else uh in search of the castaways that's the one that's hard to find but um but no i just i just loved yeah all the stuff that she did in the 60s was so great

Yeah, this is her fifth Disney movie.

Fifth one, yeah.

I mean, I always feel like sweaty and gross whenever i watch that movie as attractive as paul newman isn't it i mean as we've discussed there are worse people to watch sweat and be shirtless and be hot completely so did did you have any honorable mentions i did i i also had cool hand luke um because yeah those those scenes especially on the chain gang are just blistering and And then, but I took it out because I wanted to do Cat on Long Hot Summer and I didn't want all of my picks to be Paul Newman.

And then I had another Hayley Mills movie.

I had The Parent Trap because they're ants and then they're camping in the mountains at the end.

It's just like, it's not quite as stifling heat as the other titles we discussed, but you really do feel like this is a warm, hot summer that these girls are enacting this trick during.

Uh, and you said something interesting here.

You said that they pull the Parent Trap.

Mm.

Worth noting, this predates The Parent Trap.

Yes.

So-

Correct.

Yeah.

Disney would go on to make a ton of live-action adventure films in the 50s and 60s.

Some great ones, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Swiss Family Robinson, The Parent Trap.

It was this movie that started that whole era.

It's been adapted dozens of times since, TV movies, animated versions, the Muppets version.