Editing The Parent Trap (1961 film) (section)

== Production ==
The source material, ''Das doppelte Lottchen'', was discovered by Disney's story editor Bill Dover, who recommended the studio buy it.{{sfn|O'Hara|Nicoletti|2004|p=417}}

In March 1960, Disney announced that Hayley Mills would star in ''His and Hers'' to be written and directed by David Swift. Swift and Mills had just made ''Pollyanna'' for Disney.<ref>{{cite news|title=Looking at Hollywood: Hayley Mills to Play (Both) Twins in Film
|last=Hopper |first=Hedda. |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |date=9 March 1960 |page=b4}}</ref> It was also known as ''Petticoats and Blue Jeans'' and was the first in a five-film contract Mills signed with Disney, to make one each summer.<ref>{{cite news|title=Is Young British Actress New 'American Sweetheart'?: Hollywood Letter |first=John C. |last=Waugh |work=The Christian Science Monitor |date=11 October 1960 |page=7}}</ref>

Maureen O'Hara signed in June.<ref>{{cite news|title=PRODUCERS PUSH WAR-FILM PLANS: Levy and Mindlin Will Begin 'Longest Day' in March -- 'Terrace' to Open July 15 |first=Howard |last=Thompson |work=The New York Times |date=25 June 1960 |page=12}}</ref> She wrote in her memoirs that Disney offered her a third of her normal fee of $75,000 but that she held out for her quote and got it.{{sfn|O'Hara|Nicoletti|2004|p=418}} O'Hara said her contract gave her top billing but that Disney decided to give that to Mills; she says this caused tension with the studio and was why she never worked with Disney again.{{sfn|O'Hara|Nicoletti|2004|p=424-426}}

Production started in July under the title of ''We Belong Together'' and went until September.<ref>{{cite news|title=BY WAY OF REPORT: Disney's Togetherness––Other Film Matters |first=A.H. |last=Weiler |work=The New York Times |date=4 September 1960 |page=79 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/09/04/99792850.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=2024-09-07}}</ref>

The production used [[Split screen (video production)|split screen]] technology to create the effect of Mills playing both girls, with Susan Henning acting as a body double as part of the filming process.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wright |first=Tolly |date=2021-08-12 |title=Hayley Mills Answers Every Question We Have About The Parent Trap |url=https://www.vulture.com/2021/08/hayley-mills-answers-every-question-about-the-parent-trap.html |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=Vulture |language=en}}</ref>

The film was shot mostly at various locales in California. The summer camp scenes were filmed at Bluff Lake Camp (then owned by the Pasadena [[YMCA]], now by [[Habonim Dror]]'s Camp Gilboa) and the family camping scenes later in the movie at [[Cedar Lake Camp]], both in the [[San Bernardino Mountains]] near the city of [[Big Bear Lake, California|Big Bear Lake]] in [[Southern California]]. The Monterey scenes were filmed in various California locations, including millionaire [[Stuyvesant Fish]]'s {{convert|5200|acre|km2}} ranch in [[Carmel-by-the-Sea, California|Carmel]] and Monterey's [[Pebble Beach]] golf course. The scenes at the Monterey house were shot at the studio's [[Golden Oak Ranch]] in [[Placerita Canyon State Park|Placerita Canyon]], where Mitch's ranch was built.<ref name="GoldenOakRanchHistory">{{Cite web |url=https://goldenoakranch.com/about/history/ |title=History: A Movie Ranch Like No Other |access-date=2013-04-14 |work=goldenoakranch.com |archive-date=2013-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117045439/http://www.goldenoakranch.com/about/history |url-status=live }}</ref> It was the design of this set that proved the most popular, and to this day the Walt Disney Archives receives requests for plans of the home's interior design.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://disneymoviesandfacts.tumblr.com/page/679|title=Disney Movies & Facts|website=disneymoviesandfacts.tumblr.com|access-date=2016-05-15|archive-date=2016-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009062025/http://disneymoviesandfacts.tumblr.com/page/679|url-status=live}}{{self-published source|date=August 2018}}</ref> In fact, there never was such a house; the set was simply various rooms built on a sound stage. Camp Inch was based on a real girls' camp called Camp Crestridge for Girls at the Ridgecrest Baptist Conference Center near [[Asheville, North Carolina]].

In 1962, a year after Disney adapted ''Das doppelte Lottchen'' into ''The Parent Trap'', Cyrus Brooks translated the German book into English as ''Lisa and Lottie'',<ref>{{Cite web|date=2024|title=''Cyrus Brooks''|url=https://www.nyrb.com/collections/cyrus-brooks|website=[[New York Review Books]]}}</ref> an edition still published in the United States and [[Canada]].

In 2014, ''Das doppelte Lottchen'' was faithfully retranslated into English by [[Anthea Bell]] and republished in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Australia]] by [[Pushkin Press]] as ''The Parent Trap,''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kästner|first=Erich|date=November 6, 2014|title=''The Parent Trap''|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OFIBEBC|website=[[Pushkin Press]]}}</ref> after the hit Disney film. Then in 2020, Australian actress [[Ruby Rees]] recorded an unabridged narration of Bell's translation for [[Bolinda Publishing|Bolinda]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kästner|first=Erich|date=December 1, 2020|title=''The Parent Trap''|url=https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/?id=AQAAAECcMwxzgM|publisher=[[Bolinda Publishing|Bolinda]]}}</ref>