The sweet trap
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German title | The sweet trap |
Original title | Love Is Better Than Ever |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1952 |
length | 81 minutes |
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Director | Stanley Donen |
script | Ruth Brooks flipping |
production | William H. Wright for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
music | Lennie Hayton |
camera | Harold Rosson |
cut | George Boemler |
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The Sweet Trap is an American romantic comedy directed by Stanley Donen from 1952. The film was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
action
The action takes place in New York City , time the present. Jud Parker is a busy Broadway agent who ends up in New Haven on a professional matter , where he meets the attractive young Stacie Macaboy. Stacie owns a dance school and has two potential competitors - Mrs. Levoy and her daughter Pattie Marie - whom she does not let out of sight and whom she travels to New York to attend a dance instructor conference a little later. There she meets Jud again and falls in love with him, but is initially rejected by him.
Her mother brings her back home. Because Stacie cannot forget Jud, she looks for a ruse to win over her lover after all. She advertised her engagement to Jud in the local newspaper. As intended, Jud hears about this too, and when he travels to New Haven with his friend Hamlet, whom he claims to be a lawyer, she appeases him, saying that she was only trying to stifle the gossip with the advertisement Levoy women have now brought into the world. Jud believes her, and since she pretends to be no longer in love with him, he even lets himself be persuaded to play an active part in this comedy. However, he soon realizes that Stacie is still trying to capture him, and he runs away. She follows him and brings him back to New Haven for a sequel to the comedy, where after a few more complications he admits that he would like to marry Stacie after all.
Gene Kelly appears in a cameo .
Production and reception
The sweet trap was the third directorial work by the 27-year-old Stanley Donen, who also directed such important films as Today's Going For a Walk (1949), You Should Be My Lucky Star (1952) and Charade (1963), but whose work took a long time received little attention. It was only after Donen had long since stopped directing films that he was honored with a whole series of awards for his life's work. The 19-year-old Elizabeth Taylor dated him during the production of the film and was seen with him at the Academy Awards in March 1951, among other things, which caused a sensation because Donen was married and Taylor had only recently broken up with her first husband, Nicky Hilton , had separated.
The shooting for the film, which was produced in black and white and 35 mm, took place around February 1951. Since Taylor's screen partner, Larry Parks , then had to answer to the Committee on Un-American Activities , it was not released in the US until February 23, 1952. Parks was extremely popular through appearances in films such as The Jazz Singer (1946) and Jolson Sings Again (1949), but was blacklisted in 1951 by Hollywood artists who were no longer employed in the McCarthy era because of long-standing communist connections .
The film was first seen on German television on December 21, 1992.
Web links
- The sweet event in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love Is Better Than Ever at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Movie poster
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