Love Is Better Than Ever
- Elizabeth Taylor: Anastasia " Stacie " Macaboy
- Josephine Hutchinson: Mrs. Macaboy
- Tom Tully: Charles E. Macaboy
- Larry Parks: Jud Parker
- Alex Gerry: Hamlet
- Ann Doran: Mrs. Levoy
- Elinor Donahue: Pattie Marie Levoy
- Kathleen Freeman: Mrs. Kahrney
- Doreen McCann: Albertina Kahrney
- Dick Wessel: Smitty
The sweet trap is an American romantic comedy from director Stanley Donen from the year 1952. The film was produced by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer.
Action
The scene is first New York City, the time the present. Jud Parker is a not exaggerated industrious Broadway agent that decides to move in a professional matter to New Haven, where he met the attractive young Stacie Macaboy. Stacie has a dance school and has two potential rivals - Mrs. Levoy and their daughter Pattie Marie - they can not be out of sight and where they nachreist little later to New York to dance teacher conference. There she meets and falls in love again Jud him, but initially turned away from him.
Her mother brings them back home. Because Stacie Jud can not forget, she's looking for a trick to win the lover still. In the local newspaper, she is known by listing their engagement with Jud. As intended, the Jew comes to my attention, and when he applied and together with his friend Hamlet, he says he as a lawyer, travels to New Haven, they appeased him with the ad they have tried to stifle only the gossip, which the Levoy women have now brought into the world. Jud believes her, and as she pretends to be no longer in love with him, he is persuaded even to actively play in this comedy. He soon sees through, however, that Stacie tries to capture him still, and looks into the distance. She follows him and brings him back for a sequel to the comedy to New Haven, where he admits after a few more tangles, but that he now wants to marry Stacie.
Gene Kelly appears in a cameo.
Production and reception
The sweet event was the third film directed by 27 -year-old Stanley Donen, who also such important films as Today ' let's go strolling (1949 ), Singin' in the Rain (1952 ) and Charade (1963 ) has staged its performance for a long time but little has been observed. Only after long Donen directed no more movies, he was honored with a number of awards for his life's work. The 19 -year-old Elizabeth Taylor went during the production of the film with him and let herself be seen with him, among other things on the Academy Awards in March 1951, which caused a stir because Donen was married and Taylor have recent of her first husband, Nicky Hilton, had separated.
The filming of those produced in black and 35 mm film took place around February 1951. Since Taylor's screen partner, Larry Parks, had to be subsequently tried by the Committee on Un-American Activities, he came to the U.S. but only on 23 February 1952 in the cinemas. Parks was through performances in films such as The Jazz Singer (1946) and Jolson Sings Again (1949 ) is extremely popular, fell because of long of past communist connections in 1951 but blacklisted Hollywood artists who were no longer allowed to be employed in the McCarthy era.
On German television, the film was first shown on 21 December 1992.