The Tender Trap (1955)

Directed by

Charles Walters

Genre

romantic comedy, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A successful bachelor enjoys his carefree life until he meets a smart young woman who challenges his views on love and commitment. She is determined to get him to settle down.

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What happens

The Tender Trap is a 1955 American comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, and Celeste Holm. Directed by Charles Walters, the CinemaScope Eastman Color production was based on the 1954 play The Tender Trap by Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith. It marked Sinatra's return to MGM some six years after On the Town. A second film under a new contract with the studio, Guys and Dolls, was actually released ahead of The Tender Trap by one day on November 3, 1955. The film earned an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Original Song for "(Love Is) the Tender Trap" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn). The song proved a hit for Sinatra, one he would continue to sing throughout his career. It is performed in a pre-credits sequence by Sinatra, sung in the film by Reynolds in a lackluster version that Sinatra corrects, again by Reynolds in an improved version during a stage rehearsal, and yet again at the end of the film by Sinatra, Reynolds, Holm and Wayne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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