If you haven't already figured out how much I am in love with movies then this is going to sound a little bit confusing. I had to trash this movie. I had 45 minutes left of my DVD and it totally stopped working. I was heartbroken to say the very least. However, the internet is, sometimes, a wonderful thing. I was able to buy another copy and was finally able to re-watch the movie and enjoy the wonderful ending that I remembered fondly. What is this movie that sent me on an unexpected emotional roller coaster? It's none other than Frank Sinatra starring in The Tender Trap.
Once again Frank Sinatra, named Charlie in this film, is a playboy who can make any girl swoon. He has scads of women or he can call at any time for a date, dinner, to clean his house, to kill some time with, but not to marry. He enjoys the single life too much. In between the women he is seeing he keeps up with his day job as a theatrical agent. He is trying to find the perfect gift for a new play coming up and that is how he meets Julie Gillis, played be the ever lovable Debbie Reynolds. She is perfect in ever way... except she refuses to do the show after a certain point because she is going to get married. When trying to discuss the contract, and trying to convince her to convince her fiance to keep doing the show, he finds that she is not engaged. She is not even dating anyone. She just knows when she is going to get married, and has her whole life planned out but doesn't know who the man in her life is yet. She claims that when she meets him she will know. One day she is late to rehearsal and Charlie tracks her down a a home show and, to appease Julie, sits in a chair and it hits her that Charlie is her man. Charlie being the playboy that he is, wines and dines her thinking he can get this girl to be a casual dater, and her thinking she can make him commit. Love is never easy cause it really is a Tender Trap.
This is one of my personal Frank Sinatra favorites. This is the movie that I realized that I really did love Frank Sinatra as a singer. When I saw this film for the first time was about the time I discovered my parents Capitol Records Frank Sinatra CD in their CD collection. The CD had the song "The Tender Trap" on it. I fell in love with the song from the first time I heard it and had to watch the movie that shared it's name. You add the fact that one of my favorite actresses from Singing in the Rain starred with him in this movie, I was hooked. This is your traditional romantic comedy story lines that you can't help but love. It's got some good lines, and all the feel good feelings you want. It's not Mr. Sinatra's best performance of his life but it's memorable to me. You never really forget when and where you fell in love with Frank Sinatra.
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