The Tender Trap (1955)
November 4, 1955Release Date
The Tender Trap (1955)
November 4, 1955Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Frank Sinatra
Charlie Y. Reader
Debbie Reynolds
Julie Gillis
David Wayne
Joe McCall
Celeste Holm
Sylvia Crewes
Jarma Lewis
Jessica Collins
Lola Albright
Poppy Masters
Carolyn Jones
Helen
Howard St. John
Mr. Sayers
Joey Faye
Sol Z. Steiner
Arthur Tovey
Nightclub Patron
Tom Helmore
Mr. Loughran
Charles Walters
Director
Julius J. Epstein
Screenplay
Max Shulman
Theatre Play
Robert Paul Smith
Theatre Play
Lawrence Weingarten
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 4, 1955
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 51m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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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, and yet again at the end of the film by Sinatra, Reynolds, Holm and Wayne.